Example sentences of "and had [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Then he remembered the one designer he 'd met — gay — and had second thoughts .
2 Brachiosaurus was even heavier than Brontosaurus and had front legs longer than its rear ones , the opposite of Brontosaurus .
3 Yes and then we 've fiddles or melodions they all m met at each others houses and had great nights .
4 She was discharged home , apparently fit and well , and had five years of active , happy life before she died without much pain or distress from cancer .
5 They had the right religion , they were hard-working , and had small families which they could afford to keep in decent circumstances .
6 I have phoned Sarah many times and had long talks with her about the welfare of goats .
7 Her father had lived at the Old Parsonage at Wouldham and had 10 children .
8 McGrath , who took over from Jim McCalliog in October last year , for just 14 months , taking over in October last year from Jim McCalliog , and had 10 months of a two-year contract to run .
9 The strongest motivation for inscribing multilateralism in the new world order came from the United States and had definite implications for the UK .
10 She was confined to bed and had infrequent visits from a nurse ; since my father was still in the Army I looked after myself and skipped school to visit my mother who , by this time , was in a hospital for the terminally ill .
11 He was in his forties , wore a decrepit old blazer and flannels , and had rabbity teeth and a foolish expression .
12 JWP Inc , the Rye Brook , New York electrical and plumbing services conglomerate that bought struggling Businessland Inc and almost immediately regretted it , has decided that it has had enough of computers altogether and on Friday announced that it will sell its information services business ; it has retained Lazard Freres & Co as its financial advisor to attempt to find a buyer ; the unit now provides personal computer-related hardware , software and integrated services primarily to large corporate and institutional customers , has some 3,000 staff and had 1992 revenues of $1,700m .
13 Mortensen also noted that A. ingolfiana was bigger than A. norvegica and had coarser arms .
14 I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’
15 I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’
16 Like Valter Roman , he fought in the Spanish Civil War , and had good contacts with the Soviet advisers from Stalin 's secret police , the NKVD .
17 He had cut himself loose from the past and had good hopes of making a comfortable landfall .
18 But I must admit , I , I am a bit snobbish in it , I would move heaven and earth to help someone who looked clean and nice and had good manners .
19 The cells were generally bare with stone ‘ beds ’ , but were clean and had integral toilets and water taps .
20 They said teachers were poor in assessing National Curriculum progress and had low expectations of the pupils .
21 They said teachers were poor in assessing National Curriculum progress and had low expectations of the pupils .
22 ‘ I was working in the BBC pensions department and had short-lived aspirations of getting into TV .
23 Respondents had sharply different views of what liability they were subject to and about the extent of their liability , and had varying arrangements to meet any perceived potential liability .
24 While the town house was completely enclosed in four walls on a rectangular plan to provide privacy from the streets , the villa was built in a less formal manner on a large ground plan and had terraced gardens overlooking the Bay of Naples .
25 It had been a democratic country and had ancient traditions of learning and libertarianism .
26 He was thrice married ( his third wife 's name was Margaret ) and had nine children , one of whom , Charles ( born 1812/13 ) , is known to have worked as a surveyor .
27 It might be any sort of compound , but a lot of evidence was accumulating that peptides , i.e. compounds containing a chain or ring of amino acids , frequently occurred in specific parts of the brain and had specific functions as local or systemic hormones .
28 Originally they were gilded and had blue backgrounds .
29 She took her dance calls with the chorus , and had separate sessions coaching the soloists .
30 Equally , the new ideas and advice offered by the Marie Stopes clinics and by the Family Planning Association , which was established in 1930 and had sixty-six clinics by 1939 , would have been very limited .
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