Example sentences of "and [noun] [pron] had [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a shrug that she hoped looked uncaring , she walked in , removed his jacket that was still round her shoulders , picked up the jeans and shirt she had left out to change into , and went into the bathroom . |
| 2 | By recording body temperatures throughout the day of groups of well-adjusted shiftworkers , intolerant shiftworkers , and day-workers who had given up shiftwork because they could not tolerate it , Reinberg has demonstrated that it is indeed the best-adjusted group whose circadian rhythm was most immutable . |
| 3 | On our first meeting he thought I was a removal man working for Frank and Salome who had gone on to higher things ( mainly higher rates , mortgage repayments , so fourth , so fifth ) . |
| 4 | The Unitarian minister and editor Edwin Chapman underlined that desire to overcome separation when in his thanksgiving sermon on Emancipation Day in 1834 he proclaimed that it was the Christian principle evinced by all the sects and parties which had brought on the victory . |
| 5 | Now , as they left the shuttle lounge at Heathrow , mixed in with the commuters and shoppers who had come down for the day , Adam saw the tail . |
| 6 | As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass . |
| 7 | Balcon moved , with several of the scriptwriters and directors he had brought up through Gaumont-British , to the American company , MGM . |
| 8 | Other changes include moving the scriptwriters to Spain and banning the odd words of Spanish , French and German which had crept in . |
| 9 | The disquiet and consternation he had set up among the brothers would go on echoing and re-echoing for some time , while he who had caused it had recoiled into numbness and exhaustion . |
| 10 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 11 | Even worse , Colonel Windsor 's sharp glance detected a tremor in the hand that avidly accepted the whiskey and soda he had poured out to celebrate the unexpected reunion with his old comrade-in-arms . |
| 12 | There were other friends too and people she had grown up with . |
| 13 | Since the death of the writer the insults and threats he had dealt out to each member of his family took on a new significance . |
| 14 | They trembled not from fear , but from anger and resentment which had built up rapidly in the 24 hours since he had heard the ridiculous order from Washington . |
| 15 | Would he ever know which friends and fellows he had delivered over to the government in that one fatally careless moment ? |
| 16 | It was worthy of the great adventurers and explorers who had set out from its quays , and at that magic time of arrival after a long sea voyage , with the mist-filtered rays of the sun touching the cathedral domes and castle towers , the old city of Ulysses fulfilled and exceeded all her expectations . |
| 17 | All the love and devotion which had poured out of those once-bright eyes reassured Marjorie that , somehow , Lizzie actually understood . |
| 18 | Tales of Robin Hood were very much to Anna 's romantic taste , and she listened enthralled as Merrill searched her memory for the legends and folklore she had grown up with . |