Example sentences of "[adv] and had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Group 2 consisted of 24 patients ; each had an abnormal naevus pattern as defined above and had already had 1 invasive primary melanoma ( Kraemer et al 's category C ) . |
| 2 | Led by Major Ronnie Tod , 30 men went ashore and had hardly been gone a few minutes when Dudley Clarke and the commander saw the dark outline of a boat coming in from the sea . |
| 3 | By 1918 there were many Labour Party parliamentarians and trade unionists who would willingly have excluded the ILP from the party , were it not that opposition to the war had spread quite widely and had partly justified the ILP position . |
| 4 | One night , bumping into the doorway , and stepping over a colleague , I made my way out into the sleet , the toilets all being occupied , and as I crouched , steadying my cheek against the cold planks , I peered through the reeking shadows of Auschwitz and saw that the nearest ruins were fuming more than ever and had even begun to glow . |
| 5 | He was seen with a pretty young woman , was able to paw her a little without having the effort or commitment of doing more and had also enjoyed himself complaining about his wife . |
| 6 | The one with the camera , after an initial flourish of framing , had decided to abandon the task temporarily and had half replaced the camera in its zip-up plastic cover . |
| 7 | Thereafter Heybridge fought well throughout and had far the better of the play . |
| 8 | I pushed him round that time as a baby of three that could not walk properly or talk clearly and had never sung . |
| 9 | While Mrs Drubb , with no more explanation than that she was a woman now and had better keep well away from men , had then scolded her for upsetting her mother . |
| 10 | Potrovsky had waxed and polished the car the night before and had even gone as far as to iron the two pennants which flew on either side of the bonnet . |
| 11 | He had been through it before and had already told the Captain he was sure that was the car , though he had n't looked at the driver and front passenger , having been distracted by the map and by watching the traffic coming from all three directions because he wanted to cross over . |
| 12 | He began to explore the possibility of borrowing from East Berlin five years ago and had already secured an agreement from the authorities in charge of Potsdam , and from the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz in West Berlin which normally never lends . |
| 13 | ‘ We were singing There was a Princess Long Ago and had just got to the last verse , ‘ Now everybody 's happy now ’ , when the headmistress came in and said the King had died . |
| 14 | He had been an unsuccessful amateur jockey some fifteen years ago and had then been assistant to a leading jump trainer in Lambourn . |
| 15 | The most they would say in 1961 regarding Cuba 's ideological status was that ‘ Cuba had achieved its revolution independently and had freely chosen the path of socialist development ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ I was with British Steel before coming here and had never been to a live theatre show before except the pantomime as a kid . |
| 17 | Her widowhood had thankfully not reduced her circumstances too drastically and had certainly not altered her sense of style . |
| 18 | She had slimmed down to 10st 7lbs ( 66.7kg ) for her wedding eight years earlier and had gradually gained weight since . |
| 19 | Ojomoh , by now the South West England Under-21 decathlon champion , developed into a formidable rugby forward and had just joined Bath in 1989 when a letter from the Home Office threatened to wreck his life . |
| 20 | In the weeks that had passed since she had met Rupert Stonebird at the vicarage her interest in him had deepened , mainly because she had not seen him again and had therefore been able to build up a more satisfactory picture of him than if she had been able to check with reality . |
| 21 | In April 1861 even the head of the Third Department thought that the regime would be forced to grant a constitution , but he added that " not only would the emperor not make up his mind to assent to the gradual introduction of constitutional forms , but he had even spoken out firmly against it very recently and had evidently not changed his mind on the question " . |
| 22 | When he was second to Big Ben , he was two seconds faster and had only one fence down . |
| 23 | Joe had a bottle of Thunderbird too and had already opened it . |