Example sentences of "[adj] and had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was seen in the special department , after blood tests for syphilis , taken as a last resort , had turned out strongly positive , he remembered having noticed a sore on his penis some five months earlier but had not bothered with it as it was not painful and had gone away after a couple of weeks . |
| 2 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |
| 3 | Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa said the Israelis had been intransigent and had done all they could ‘ to make the peace conference and the talks a waste of time . ’ |
| 4 | Hank decided that , in this instance , honesty was the only policy possible and had said frankly that he wanted to try to write a book . |
| 5 | Once or twice , when Harry and Fleury had had to leave her to her own devices for a few moments in order to fight off the sepoys , she had become very upset and had made little attempt to conceal the fact . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well , all those things had gone in the parcels , parcels that Kathleen had been obliged to carry down to the post office in five separate journeys , parcels that were heavy and had cost altogether two pounds four shillings to send . |
| 8 | To bring out the contrast with UK policy , we can consider a specific case , that of the MMC inquiry into the White Salt Market. ; Two firms supplied virtually the entire UK salt market and , over the 13 year period taken by the MMC , their prices had been identical and had changed identically within a few weeks of each other . |
| 9 | There was a lot of shouting and shuffling amongst the newcomers , most of whom were feeling bored and restless and had spent too long in the country already . |
| 10 | It was now red and had become quite dull . |
| 11 | It had barely stopped before Collins had the door open and had bundled then inside . |
| 12 | Industry watchdog Lautro could have banned the company from selling investment products altogether , but decided not to because it had been co-operative and had acted promptly to beef up its sales methods . |
| 13 | The Squirrel I flew was appropriate for the task , being owned privately by a pilot who bought it new and had flown just 60 hours before it was introduced to me . |
| 14 | One was new and had come instead of his uncle who was ill , but the guards would not let him in because they did not know him by sight and they nearly threw him into the ditch before they would even let him go home . |
| 15 | The two US pilots involved , who had mistakenly fired missiles at British armoured personnel carriers in the Iraqi desert on Feb. 26 , 1991 , remained anonymous and had testified only by letter . |