Example sentences of "and had [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were no threat to him ; they were far away , and he was in tree-shade , and had nothing bright about him to catch the light . |
| 2 | He would never scribble in his annuals and had them all in order . |
| 3 | I 'd placed six smaller bombs , and had them all lit in forty seconds . |
| 4 | Last year , remember , she did up some of the bedrooms and had them decorated , her brother decorated them and also she did the erm the tables , remember , she stripped back some tables and varnished them and she made a lovely job . |
| 5 | In 1986 Sogat 82 was fined and had its entire assets sequestrated because of its illegal disruption of the distribution of Rupert Murdoch 's News International newspapers . |
| 6 | The jam factory was next to the station and had its own sidings . |
| 7 | His prose style was carefully calculated , and had its proper effect , in the long run , and for those not too provoked to read carefully . |
| 8 | This opposition was initiated and had its structural base in the industrial sphere , more specifically , in the gas industry where a growing number of semiskilled workers suffered from intensification of work during the 1880s . |
| 9 | The group reformed and had their first exhibition in 1949 . |
| 10 | ‘ James and Catherine were doing well at school and had their whole lives in front of them . |
| 11 | Comparable remarks could be made about Theseus and Achilles because they too at times wore women 's clothes and had their ideal relationship not with a woman , but with a man , as Gilgamesh did . |
| 12 | Nine of the children came to the show each day and had their own press room in one of the loose boxes on the RASE Children 's Farm . |
| 13 | These consisted of 30–60 farmers and had their own management committees and their own Group Organiser to arrange and administer the training of group members . |
| 14 | Borrow 's family came from St. Cleer and , he claimed , were gentlefolk who had long lived at Tredinnock and had their own coat of arms . |
| 15 | Most of the group members were quite young , Right-On , middle-class , intellectual , and had their own particular obsession which they wanted to see in the paper . |
| 16 | ‘ There has n't been a pop band since Duran Duran and Wham ! who wrote their own material and had their own points of view . ’ |
| 17 | Before that though , and had their own men |
| 18 | When she moved in Virginia Woolf was thirty-seven and had published her first novel The Voyage Out and had her second , Night and Day , accepted ; all her other books were to be in part written at Monk 's House . |
| 19 | She moved out for a while , but carried on cleaning for her ; and then when she married , she moved back in again , and had her first child there . |
| 20 | Eventually , she married and had her first baby . |
| 21 | She liked to save any money she got off Nigel and had her own private account in a building society the other side of London . |
| 22 | She had written to her mother giving no address , saying that she had left her husband and was going abroad , that she could do nothing more for her mother and had her own life to live . |
| 23 | Twenty years ago trend-setting Mary Quant hit on pubic hair as the fashion motif for a new age and had her own trimmed into a tasteful heart shape . |
| 24 | After all , she had learned to ride and had her own horse . |
| 25 | As he doubled over , she kneed him in the face , and had her own pistol levelled at Glen 's stomach before he could react . |
| 26 | His wife worked on the railways during the war and had her own fruit and general goods shop for 14 years . |
| 27 | My sister Alison was 24 and had her whole life ahead of her . ’ |
| 28 | He was known in Italy as the ‘ King of the Joke ’ and had his greatest critical success in Ettore Scola 's film La Famiglia . |
| 29 | Atkinson said : ‘ He has not had the best of seasons so far and probably felt he was being frozen out , but He came back and had his best game for us against Arsenal . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I had worked out what I thought was a good routine for him and had his personal stunt man run through the scene for him , ’ said Cannutt . |