Example sentences of "[adj] and had [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Others , including the Queen herself , by her own later account , were happy that it was so French and had so little Iranian personality to it . |
| 2 | The summer of 1984 was a glorious one , the West Indian team was one of their strongest and had just beaten Australia 3–0 ; the England team , with some of the top players banned after going to South Africa , was one of their most ordinary and had just lost series to Pakistan and New Zealand for the first time , and it was all rather one-sided . |
| 3 | Chris was nearly 5 years old and had just entered his infant reception class . |
| 4 | The car was , after all , three years old and had over 50,000 miles on the clock . |
| 5 | The film was immensely popular and had so clearly struck a chord that Hammer carried out a rethink of its production policy . |
| 6 | Another rumour countered that she had always been unpleasant and had thus never had a love-affair , unhappy or otherwise . |
| 7 | As the Lada sped towards St Petersburg , the hostages were being moved into a spacious townhouse that was now empty and had once been a district governor 's home . |
| 8 | The morphology of type II focus was comprised of tightly packed cells , which were extensively piled upon one another and had comparatively smooth edges ( Fig 1A ) . |
| 9 | ‘ We knew the water was dangerous and had only gone in to our knees . |
| 10 | Nurse Geeson said she had been a staff nurse on the children 's ward for ten years up to 1991 and had only come across four or five occasions when children suffered heart or respiratory attacks . |
| 11 | In the late Seventies the Ashleys were travelling around so much and had so many different houses that it was hard for them to know where home was . |
| 12 | The summer of 1984 was a glorious one , the West Indian team was one of their strongest and had just beaten Australia 3–0 ; the England team , with some of the top players banned after going to South Africa , was one of their most ordinary and had just lost series to Pakistan and New Zealand for the first time , and it was all rather one-sided . |
| 13 | At the time of writing , ‘ Countdown To Extinction ’ was enjoying its sixth consecutive week in the US Top 10 and had already generated in excess of two million sales worldwide . |
| 14 | One affected to be lame and had probably become so by constant practice . |
| 15 | So Jules was right and had once again proved his astuteness , Alice thought . |
| 16 | He 'd just had a letter from Joan telling him she was pregnant and had already chosen the name Jasmine if the child was a girl . |
| 17 | By the age of 12 , she was only the size of an eight-year-old and had already undergone two operations to straighten her legs . |
| 18 | In the circumstances the defendants had done that which was reasonably practicable and had thereby satisfied the duty of care imposed upon them . |
| 19 | Realising that her crossness with Vendelin Gajdusek had been short-lived and had quickly faded , Fabia was left to worry about Cara , and Barney , and the interview which by rights should now be over , but which had n't begun yet . |
| 20 | It was high-necked and had long tight sleeves and a straight line to the floor , where it flared out at the back into a huge swirling fishtail train . |
| 21 | She was profoundly upset and had never really recovered from the shock . |
| 22 | ‘ I consider that in enacting the Damages ( Scotland ) Act , parliament did not consider that it was making any change to the right of parents to sue for damages for the death of a child who had sustained injuries prior to birth , had been born alive and had subsequently died in consequence of these pre-natal injuries . ’ |
| 23 | She was n't much over five feet tall and had dead white skin , pipestem arms and a broad grin like a cartoon character . |
| 24 | The man was around 5ft 4ins tall and had fair coloured hair . |
| 25 | Employment here peaked in 1975 and had somewhat recovered from its lowest level of 1981 by 1984 . |
| 26 | In such phrases one sees a characteristic Tolkienian strength : his ideas were often paradoxical and had deep intellectual roots , but they appealed at the same time to simple things and to everyday experience . |
| 27 | He had made an allegedly anti-Turkish speech on Sept. 21 and had reportedly criticized US President George Bush for US neutrality over Nagorny-Karabakh , an attitude which the Armenian leadership feared could jeopardise Western aid . |
| 28 | Blaize had been deposed as leader of the New National Party which he led to a landslide electoral victory under US auspices in 1984 and had defiantly formed a new grouping . |
| 29 | He had been proved mistaken and had probably suffered a somewhat humiliating rebuff from his superior officer . |
| 30 | In the meantime the first of the warbird collection was two-seater Fury T.20S G–BCOW which had been bought from Doug Arnold at Blackbushe in 1976 and had previously been used in West Germany on contract to the Luftwaffe as a target tug . |