Example sentences of "and had [vb pp] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even after I was married and had children , and had travelled extensively in Africa and North America , I still used to wake up sometimes sweating in fear , convinced that I was still in the Waaf and for some mysterious reason unable to obtain my release , but was condemned to remain in the Force for the rest of my life . |
| 2 | Ironically , she was an office manager with a firm of personnel consultants and had done well in her three years with the company . |
| 3 | Lacey 's report found that the Justice Department had conducted a " virtually perfect " inquiry into the affair and had done so in a manner which was free from political influence . |
| 4 | He had found them scruffy , and had said so in no uncertain terms . |
| 5 | The 1950s saw the birth of the New Novel , more or less in the coronation year of 1953 , with the first published fictions of Kingsley Amis , Iris Murdoch and William Golding : polemical still , but intent now on reviving a tradition of realism that had flourished first in eighteenth-century England , with Defoe and Fielding , and had faded somewhat in critical reputation in the inter-war years ; and a revived realism spread rapidly into theatre , with John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) and the first dramatic experiments of Harold Pinter . |
| 6 | ( Formed in 1988 [ see p. 37414 ] , the Reform Party , a right-wing , populist , protest grouping , had spread from its base in Alberta and had grown rapidly in all of the country 's western provinces . ) |
| 7 | Thus , where the tenant had been innocently misled into believing that he would obtain a long term , and had invested heavily in the property next door , whereas the landlord in fact had plans for immediate redevelopment , the Court of Appeal upheld an order for a break-clause exercisable after the first three years of the term ( Amika Motors Ltd v Colebrook Holdings Ltd ( 1981 ) 259 EG 243 ) . |
| 8 | They were walking round the house speculating as to what they should sell and had paused here in this far from gloomy room , this warm , sunny , charming room , and laughed at that gloomy picture , at its sentimental naivety . |
| 9 | The party , which had been formed in 1981 , had won only three seats in the 1987 general election but a rump led by David Owen had refused to merge with the Liberals in January 1988 [ see p. 36501 ] , and had performed poorly in the local elections in May 1991 . |
| 10 | Mr Stanforth came from behind his desk to meet his visitor in person , and settle her with ceremony into the client 's chair , though she was not a client , had no need whatever of a solicitor , and had come here in response to his telephoned request chiefly out of pure curiosity , of which she had a woman 's proper share . |
| 11 | M. Mitterrand was well aware that the French electorate was the most communautaire in the EEC : the Community had , after all , been created by Frenchmen with French interests in mind and had succeeded admirably in furthering those interests . |
| 12 | Many before him had attempted to explain cookery in scientific terms and had succeeded only in turning both science and cookery into the deadliest of bores . |
| 13 | A Nottingham family , the Keatings had taken their holidays in the area for many years and had settled nearby in 1934 . |
| 14 | One had formerly been an occupational therapy aide with elderly people and then a voluntary day centre manager ; the other had community work qualifications and experience , and had worked both in a local authority and an Age Concern setting . |
| 15 | They had been made redundant involuntarily and had worked full-time in the factory in low-paid , unskilled manual jobs on the shopfloor . |