Example sentences of "and had [adv] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steve reached out desperately to stop his father but he had already opened the driver 's door and had somehow inched himself out . |
| 2 | He 'd seen what Madge Grimsilk had done for Therese in Maritza , and had savagely braced himself to give no sign , no indication of anything when he saw her Luxembourg costumes . |
| 3 | Professor MacFee had read it had been startled by its undoubted merit , and had carefully discussed it chapter by chapter with him , suggesting how to improve it . |
| 4 | But modern technology now makes perfect repair work possible , so Leonard came back even though he now had a lucrative television career and had astutely invested his fortune . |
| 5 | Stan had played for Exeter against us in the previous three seasons ' fixtures and had invariably acquitted himself well in those matches , so Palace fans knew that Mr Maven 's transfer fee was well spent . |
| 6 | Kirkman Finlay who was represented by an advocate at the district meeting complained that his opponent had been guilty of bribery and corruption and had thereby disqualified himself . |
| 7 | Equally , in the case of John Main at Inverkeithing , he and his two fellow excisemen were threatened with the board 's displeasure in 1752 , when the collector of Bo'ness accepted , without any enquiry into the facts , an allegation that they had been guilty of excessive drinking and had thereby neglected their duties . |
| 8 | Newman , a decision in which the misappropriation theory was adopted by the Second Circuit for the first time , the court held that Newman had stolen information from his employer and had thereby breached his fiduciary duties to his employer and his employer 's clients . |
| 9 | She thought she could in the end be legitimized , be more than just the girl who had married the first man who came along in order to get away from home : daughter of a mother who 'd shacked up with her own mother 's boyfriend at that own mother 's unconscious behest — and had thereby had her life negated forever . |
| 10 | Peter Burridge had captained Millwall to a 4th Division promotion in 1962 and had thereby brought himself very much to the attention of Palace 's astute managerial team of Arthur Rowe and Dick Graham , both as an inspirational skipper and as a regular scorer of important goals . |
| 11 | There have been suggestions that James owed Gowrie a great deal of money , and contrived the incident to rid himself of the debt ; or that he had homosexual designs on the young man , and had murderously silenced him when rejected . |
| 12 | She had felt worthless , doubly deserted , and had finally wiped him from her mind , only a faint bitterness left , a hollow , incomplete feeling she would always carry . |
| 13 | The proposal to delegate responsibilities to local authorities was anathema to the Thatcher government in particular as it profoundly mistrusted local government and had progressively weakened its influence . |
| 14 | Yet by the late seventeenth century it is not one of the main roads described by John Ogilby in his atlas , Britannia , and had thus lost its former significance by that date . |
| 15 | Mr Silvers , however , had remembered the significance the visit would have for my father , and had thus called him in to offer him the option of taking several days ' leave for the duration of the General 's stay . |
| 16 | The applicant sought relief on the grounds that ( 1 ) at the time the coroner took his original decision there was considerable evidence before him that the death would not have occurred but for delays experienced by the deceased 's family in contacting the ambulance service and later delays by the ambulance service in responding to repeated calls by the police for an ambulance to come to take the deceased to hospital as a matter of urgency ; ( 2 ) in reaching the conclusion that an inquest was unnecessary the coroner had misdirected himself in law for the reasons , inter alia , that ( i ) section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 required a coroner to hold an inquest where there was ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the deceased had died a ‘ violent or unnatural death ; ’ ( ii ) there had been clear and uncontradicted evidence before the coroner that avoidable and culpable delays by the ambulance service might have been the reason why the deceased 's asthma attack , which could have been treated in hospital , proved fatal , giving rise to a ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the cause of the deceased 's death was ‘ unnatural ; ’ and ( iii ) against that background , the coroner had erred in law in treating the pathologist 's conclusion as conclusive and had either misdirected himself as to the meaning of ‘ unnatural death ’ in section 8 of the Coroners Act 1988 or failed to apply the law properly to the facts of the case . |
| 17 | Paige herself had gone into town to do some shopping and had scarcely made it to the front door when the sound of another car coming up the drive had made her turn . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Robert Bolt , the eminent playwright who had produced A Man For All Seasons and had just seen his screenplay for Lawrence of Arabia completed , wanted Ken for a Puck-like part for his forthcoming play , Gentle Jack . |
| 20 | Now you said that you 'd actually presented it in another way and were just , and , and had just changed it . |
| 21 | She was Manisha , a Muslim girl of twenty from Sylhet , and had just had her second child . |
| 22 | He wielded it self-consciously , as though he had never owned one before and had just bought it in a Harrods sale . |
| 23 | Chris was nearly 5 years old and had just entered his infant reception class . |
| 24 | ‘ … while I was in your gallery and had just told you I knew about the Durances . ’ |
| 25 | In his unobtrusive way he had shown his interest in my faltering attempts to climb the golfing ladder , and had even carried my bag in the Amateur Championship . |
| 26 | Pete , thinking of the Venetz sisters ' reputation for efficiency and attention to detail , asked her if she 'd hit any problems over having no social security records or documentation ; she currently had the status of an illegal immigrant , after all , and had even dumped her hot French passport as she 'd walked out of the 78 air terminal . |
| 27 | I remembered that I had promised to see her about some poems she had written and had nervously asked me to read . |
| 28 | We were adjusting the seasoning in a salmon terrine , and had nervously added what we thought to be the appropriate amount . |
| 29 | The Economist of March 3 , 1990 , commented that " the revolution in Eastern Europe has robbed the only avowedly Marxist Arab state of its support and its ideological lodestone " , that " Czech and East German advisers are leaving in droves " and that " the Russians have been disengaging " and had reportedly closed their military bases . |
| 30 | While acknowledging that there were some schools which had built up a good range of resources and had successfully integrated their school library with the teaching and learning taking place in the school , it appeared at this time that many demonstrated one or all of the following basic problems : |