Example sentences of "and had [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They made a gallant array next morning as they marched off from the Burgh Muir in great companies , cavalry and infantry , banners and standards waving , heraldic surcoats colourful , armour glinting in the early morning sunlight , trumpets blowing ; but Ramsay reminded himself that Mar 's army had looked fully as fine and had marched only to disaster . |
| 2 | They too had slept and had missed both dinner and the theatre performance . |
| 3 | He had spent his childhood in the Soviet Union and had studied there . |
| 4 | From The Moth , journal of the DH Moth Club , this member 's account of an accident which befell his pristine Tiger Moth last summer soon after it had undergone a complete rebuild at Maypole Farm in Kent and had accumulated only a handful of flying hours . |
| 5 | She had almost touched it as she had turned , and had seen again the blood on the sawdust and the fear and the faces staring . |
| 6 | Walter , the youngest boy , had the most distant relationship with his father ; he and Robert had been sent to boarding school and had seen even less of John than their sisters . |
| 7 | Scathach had lain just so … and she had been here … and had seen there … |
| 8 | The other fighter came from Nottingham four years ago and had seen much worse than one ever saw at Oxford . |
| 9 | Chairman John Craig said the group had performed particularly well in the US , had built up its market in continental Europe and had seen further growth in the Far East . |
| 10 | He had exhibited work every year since 1847 , and had given about three of a series of lectures on mediaeval architecture to students at the Academy , which he had started the previous year . |
| 11 | It did n't like motorbikes , either , and had gone wild when Agnes first arrived , barking and attacking . |
| 12 | She was up to two or three needles a week , and had gone without for maybe 48 hours . |
| 13 | When he was seen in the special department , after blood tests for syphilis , taken as a last resort , had turned out strongly positive , he remembered having noticed a sore on his penis some five months earlier but had not bothered with it as it was not painful and had gone away after a couple of weeks . |
| 14 | I understood she had remarried and had gone abroad . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But I understood she had left you and her children and had gone abroad . ’ |
| 16 | To Fabia 's relief , Ivo had remembered that she had walked the dog with his master last Monday and had observed then , as now , as she gave the Dobermann a light scratch behind one of his ears , that she was totally at ease with the animal . |
| 17 | Prior to 1917 most Belorussian peasant farms had belonged to individual families and had averaged less than 20 acres . |
| 18 | Instead , when a week had passed , during which tune he and Jean-Paul had made one cursory visit to the Baron 's vineyards and had inspected perhaps one-eighth of that vast acreage , Edouard decided to return to the purpose of his visit . |
| 19 | Lively and headstrong , considered beautiful in her day ( and there had been something proud about her — the way she held her head ) , she had married well and had lived abroad for almost all my life . |
| 20 | In any case , Charles Henstock cared little for creature comforts , and had lived there for several years , alone , in appalling conditions of cold and discomfort , until his marriage to Dimity Dean , a few years before , had brought companionship and a slight mitigation of the hardship of his surroundings . |
| 21 | She had a twang that at first I did n't recognise ; it was New Zealand , for though her mother had been local , the late Mr Green , her father , came from Auckland , and had lived there before opening Green 's Hotel . |
| 22 | However , there were two big differences : Whites had more in privately rented accommodation and had lived there for a shorter time ; these areas contained only 6 per cent . |
| 23 | He had tried to keep it as a pet , and had made a cage for it and brought it dandelion leaves to eat ; but it never thrived , and had lived only a few days more . |
| 24 | He was well known as a painter of Middle Eastern subjects and had travelled extensively . |
| 25 | Even after I was married and had children , and had travelled extensively in Africa and North America , I still used to wake up sometimes sweating in fear , convinced that I was still in the Waaf and for some mysterious reason unable to obtain my release , but was condemned to remain in the Force for the rest of my life . |
| 26 | In particular the care system flourished , not least because the head had learned the benefit of a full support team in school in his previous authority ( psychologist , social worker , counsellor and welfare officer ) and had struggled successfully with his new employers for one school-based counsellor . |
| 27 | Brito was second vice-president of the PSD and had stood unsuccessfully as candidate for mayor of Oporto in December . |
| 28 | On the second night at the caravan she had slid back the partition between his bed and hers and had walked quietly up to his bed and had stood gravely looking down at him . |
| 29 | He had met the press at a cocktail party and had stood there answering impertinent questions with disconcerting honesty , a glass of ginger ale in one hand and a canapé in the other ; when he could not immediately think of an answer he nibbled the canapé and viewed the questioner with cold button eyes . |
| 30 | Somehow one of the St Manicus 's altar candles had found its way to an out-building of the asylum and had witnessed there … what ? |