Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [noun pl] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time doctors discovered what was wrong , the tissue in her legs and arms had already been eaten away . |
| 2 | Golden lads and lasses had just breakfasted on golden toast , a little blackened at the edge in some cases , spread with golden shred or golden syrup . |
| 3 | All the earlier confusions and contradictions had apparently been resolved . |
| 4 | It also said HP-UX multi-user computers , test-and-measurement products and medical equipment had good increases over last year , and even personal computers and components had very good order levels . |
| 5 | His hand and arms were free , but his knees and ankles had long since given out . |
| 6 | Katherine smiled proudly ; the voice , the accent and the pose were English , three years of the best schools and governesses had completely eradicated the Dublin accent . |
| 7 | These found that populations of sea otters , harbour seals , bald eagles , sea ducks , murres , clams and snails had all plummeted , and few were showing signs of recovery . |
| 8 | By the early nineteenth century some areas and classes had already achieved levels of survival not enjoyed by the country as a whole until about 1900 . |
| 9 | There was a complication in that the companies and shareholders had previously made various unspecified claims against one of the banks . |
| 10 | Mr Roddy Jackson , who is co-ordinating the events on the duke 's behalf , said yesterday that a number of companies and organisations had already made bookings . |
| 11 | Rural crafts and industries had long provided extra income for smallholders and cottagers , but by Victorian times population and economic growth had created a large , landless labour force whose members had to earn their entire living from a single craft or a manual occupation . |
| 12 | Ferranti said the Coopers report confirmed what its own directors and accountants had already established — namely that ‘ phantom ’ assets and profits had been created in ISC 's accounts worth some £215m . |
| 13 | Dogs gasped and changed places ; long ago cushions and covers had placidly yielded up their colours ; Aunt Tossie 's parrots fainted into their backgrounds , curtains dangled the edges of their rotten linings in the glare ; the evening was brimmed with lassitude . |
| 14 | By this time all London 's pubs and clubs had firmly shut their doors to skinheads . |
| 15 | The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation . |
| 16 | The author of the Life of Wilfrid , who represents Wilfrid as persuading the king and queen to accept the word of God and as preaching to a people who had never before heard the Gospel , undoubtedly exaggerates the paganism of the southern Saxons , for Bede reveals from non-Wilfridian sources , first , that Aethelwealh had married a Christian princess and had been baptized himself and , second , that a number of ealdormen and thegns had likewise received baptism , with the priests , Eappa , Padda , Burghelm and Aeddi ministering to the common people either at the time of Aethelwealh 's conversion or subsequently ( HE IV , 13 ) . |
| 17 | Both Anglicans and Nonconformists had successfully controlled many school boards since their establishment in 1870 , assisted by the low turn-outs in school board elections . |
| 18 | It also shows that whereas the universities and polytechnics/colleges had almost the same number of full-time students in 1987 , part-time students were mainly concentrated in the latter and the Open University . |
| 19 | According to the Financial Times of April 26 , 1990 , a joint IMF/World Bank report on the Brady plan stated that fewer deals had been concluded than hoped for and that negotiations between banks and debtors had often taken too long . |
| 20 | As the 18th century turned , governments and officials had less to offer and newspaper publishers found advertising more lucrative as a form of revenue . |
| 21 | In part there was the problem of Babel — in different countries or different regions , plants and animals had quite different names ; and in part it was a problem of taxonomy . |
| 22 | All this time , her cries and weepings had so increased in volume and in duration ( sometimes she cried for five or six hours ) that she was forbidden to go to church , and had to be confessed and absolved in a private chapel . |
| 23 | He found the French officials and soldiers had all been interned and he was virtually a prisoner . |
| 24 | To her surprise , the gunfire did n't seem to be directed at them , and she wondered if the rebels and soldiers had finally got around to fighting each other directly . |
| 25 | This meant that concepts and ideas had continually to be tested against specific problems confronted in particular situations . |
| 26 | The kapu system of priestly prohibitions and sanctions had finally disintegrated in 1819 , but new taboos rushed in to take the place of the old . |
| 27 | Managers and clinicians had rather come to view each other as protagonists in the constant battle for resources . |
| 28 | Sometimes relatives and patients had obviously had different views of the home . |
| 29 | The localized ‘ inferior balances ’ — between Sweden and Denmark in the Baltic , between France and the Habsburgs in Germany and Italy — in terms of which many writers and politicians had hitherto thought , were becoming merged in a general balance which covered the whole continent . |
| 30 | By the end of the century , architects , accountants and engineers had all created their own professional institutions . |