Example sentences of "and [pron] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not eaten since Paris and nothing had ever tasted so good to her as this rough peasant fare . |
| 2 | I did n't know what to expect and no-one had really told me . |
| 3 | And no-one had ever suspected a thing . |
| 4 | I was not from a religious background , and I had previously thought that anyone who went to the mikva had to wear ghastly old-fashioned dresses with thick tights and live in a Yiddish-speaking ghetto ! |
| 5 | This was my first real relationship with a grown man beyond the charmed circle of father , uncles , cousins , in which Alec and I had previously moved . |
| 6 | I — I could n't just go in and — and I had nowhere to go so … ’ |
| 7 | At great expense to ourselves , Father and I had finally arrived on the very threshold of Bukit Tengah , the Middle Mountain , and this difficult little man and his black kid were refusing to proceed . |
| 8 | I still had five , and I had rather expected something of the kind might happen . |
| 9 | Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished . |
| 10 | Neither of us has talked about it and I had not said I was writing until I have now started , but your father says he lay awake nearly all night thinking about it . |
| 11 | I went to Croke Park and I had not the slightest interest in Protestantism but I did come from a Fermanagh family where you did live cheek by jowl with republicanism so I had imbibed it undoubtedly and it resurfaced , the inherited knowledge of the heart of the controversy in Ulster . |
| 12 | Three years passed , and I had not lost my ambition to become the headmaster of a grammar school . |
| 13 | That was confidence — the first man to carry his own food and water across the Sahara , and I had not even left the main road yet . |
| 14 | It was half past ten in the morning , twenty-four hours after arriving in Reggane and I had not yet left . |
| 15 | He was annoyed and I had not wanted to get Frankie into trouble . |
| 16 | But on the Sunday , perhaps because it was a strange town and I had not yet made friends , I felt all day a sense of doom . |
| 17 | My famished brain kept throwing up the same line , and I had not the strength to control it , even though I knew it was wrong : Cymbeline Ghost-relic has returned from the Other Side : |
| 18 | He had seemed very uninterested , and I had not pursued the conversation . |
| 19 | I still hated and feared the thought of the wild animal inside me , and I had not forgotten the desperate dangers of the day before . |
| 20 | During all the time I had played golf I had not gone into any competitions and I had not got my handicap . |
| 21 | Within twenty-four hours , Justine would be hanged , and I had not said a word to anyone about it . |
| 22 | The great bells of the abbey were booming and I idly wondered what would have happened to my life if Jack Hogg and I had not been taken . |
| 23 | ‘ And I had not seen you ! ’ |
| 24 | And I had not even asked him for his name ! |
| 25 | My educational colleagues are a hard-bitten lot and I had not expected them to come out as complete ‘ quality ’ converts . |
| 26 | Facilities for homeless people are of course open only at certain times of the day and I had n't the money to go anywhere else . |
| 27 | We were going to see a film and I had n't seen a film before . |
| 28 | And I had n't paid . |
| 29 | ‘ My parents and I had n't been on good terms for some time . |
| 30 | As she passed , she said , a policeman had struck her in the face with a baton , ‘ and I had n't opened my mouth to him ’ . |