Example sentences of "and had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A report released in late March by a UN relief team which had recently visited Iraq stated that the bombing had caused " near-apocalyptic results " and had relegated Iraq to a " pre-industrial age " . |
| 2 | She had changed into a golden dress of a loose-flowing kind , and had brushed her hair back to reveal a high , broad brow . |
| 3 | Whitlock shoved Karen out of the way and had to fling himself on to the bonnet of a BMW as the Mercedes flashed past , missing him by inches . |
| 4 | For one thing , she knew very little of the Empress 's plans and had sensed Ypres 's disappointment in her replies . |
| 5 | It concluded that Gratz had also played a key role in the affair and had intervened to have Proksch released from preventive detention in 1985 . |
| 6 | He was a very keen and accomplished sportsman and had skied several times before . |
| 7 | He had championed the cause of the poor for many years in a series of investigative articles , and had highlighted the terrible conditions in which a large proportion of the ordinary Dublin people lived . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Judith had once confided that she too had an uncertain grasp of the past , though she 'd been drunk at the time , and had denied it vehemently when he 'd raised the subject again . |
| 10 | But the reliability of Mrs. Steed 's statement was seriously undermined by the circumstances that she had denied ever having seen the transfer and had denied that the signature was hers . |
| 11 | Near the stairhead she met Phil , who was emerging from a game of cards in one of the single rooms and had missed all the theatricals . |
| 12 | They too had slept and had missed both dinner and the theatre performance . |
| 13 | Senior did once turn the ball into the net but David Elleray was more alert than the referee of England 's 1986 World Cup tie against Argentina and had noticed the hand of a mere mortal . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , one of the Sheriff 's impromptu posse had earlier been drinking with the brothers and had noticed George 's notorious mutilated thumb . |
| 15 | His parents had detected a smell in the room over the past few weeks and had noticed a damp patch . |
| 16 | The designers of the material had provided explicit suggestions for the time to be spent on each activity within a unit and had indicated whether activities should be carried out as individual work or group discussion . |
| 17 | Mexico had taken the initiative for this round of talks and had indicated that it would like to see an agreement signed within a year , although ministers were careful not to commit themselves to deadlines . |
| 18 | The Glasgow Film Society , headed by Charles Oakley , was the largest in Europe and had indicated a certain demand already existed in Glasgow for the kind of films which the Curzon and Academy Cinemas showed in London . |
| 19 | Ten soldiers had not been compelled to give evidence and had indicated they would not attend the inquest . |
| 20 | The Spanish Civil War was a mirror into which men gazed and had cast back at them not a picture of reality but the image of hope and fears of their generation . |
| 21 | More importantly , the accident at Three Mile Island in the United States had shown how quickly a reactor could get out of control , and had cast its shadow over the reputation of the pressurized water design . |
| 22 | Austria was chastened and had to submit to Germany in all strategical decisions and Conrad was shortly relieved of his command . |
| 23 | Last year 's fantasy was that Mossad , the Israeli secret service , had sent prostitutes to Egypt to spread AIDS , and had contaminated fruit and vegetables with the AIDS virus . |
| 24 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 25 | And since that state of stability had been calculated so that it would not commence deterioration until the next inspection had been completed , Rostov had delegated command of the bridge to Yuan , and had elected to watch the performance of his technical officers at close quarters . |
| 26 | For the first time they had a doctor with them , Malcolm Pleydell , who had been posted to L Detachment and had completed his parachute training . |
| 27 | In 1939 he became Secretary , a position he held until 1964 when he became Treasurer , and had completed 53 successive years as an officer of the Club . |
| 28 | In fact , by then Reagan had served a valuable apprenticeship in the communications industry and had completed two terms as governor of the most populous state in the union with a GNP comparable to that of Canada and exceeded by only six national economies . |
| 29 | He was 80 and had completed all the Munros five times , the Corbetts at least twice , all the Donalds and a myriad of other hills in Scotland and abroad . |
| 30 | For instance , when I first started writing , and had completed my first novels , I was not allowed to sign a contract for it . |