Example sentences of "and [art] [noun] [conj] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Autumn had given the trees that extra golden lustre and the leaves that had already fallen lay round about the mourners , feet like a russet carpet . |
| 2 | Theda felt the flame lick at her loins , and the lassitude that had so possessed her was gone . |
| 3 | Now the side that had more failures ( or more was the side that lost , and the row that had less , of course , was the one that was successful . |
| 4 | The clouds broke a little and the sun that had previously looked like a tarnished shilling in a bowl of porridge came out and lit the sweep of Wensleydale below the cairn . |
| 5 | Next , in the order in which she would need them , were her flannel petticoats , her cotton bodice and frilled drawers , her black woollen stockings , her long boned stays and the combinations that had so irritated her skin when she was small . |
| 6 | Until the rebels reached Monrovia the fighting had involved few direct clashes between the government troops and the rebels and had largely consisted of tribally motivated reprisal attacks against civilians . |
| 7 | Dusk was falling swiftly , as it always does in the tropics , and the silence that had so impressed me by daylight suddenly became noisy with the night life of the jungly-type trees in the mountains behind-the bull frogs , strange bird cries , the never-ending background of the cicadas . |
| 8 | This man 's suit was as well-cut as Jeff 's , his tie matched his shirt , while his wife looked like a model , with gleaming fair hair , and a dress that had surely cost more than her own . |
| 9 | Two groups of undergraduate subjects were compared , a group that had learned to read Hebrew and a group that had not . |
| 10 | With a wardrobe comprising jeans and sweatshirts , a make-up bag containing an eight-year-old foundation and a hairstyle that had n't changed in ten years ( husband Steve never noticed when she 'd been to the hairdressers ) , Juliana felt in a rut ‘ I feel I 'm 30 going on 40 and would love to look more stylish , but I just do n't know where to start . ’ |
| 11 | And by ‘ them ’ he meant the English who identified with a country and a people that had never accepted them . |