Example sentences of "and he had [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His written work , like both his brothers ' , was neat and controlled , consisting of short accounts of daily events which the teacher had transcribed and he had carefully illustrated and copied . |
| 2 | His parents had named him after Franklin D. Roosevelt and he had carefully built up a similar outwardly benevolent image . |
| 3 | He was expecting a visit from the young woman he had been wooing assiduously and he had carefully orchestrated the evening so that all his housemates were out and he had the house to himself . |
| 4 | There was no fluke about his comfortable victory over Wonder Man at Nottingham , and he had previously recorded a top-class performance for a novice when beating Deep Sensation and other experienced handicappers in the Victor Chandler Chase at Ascot . |
| 5 | At first sight one might think he was taking no part in the uproar , but Toby had only recently completed his own schooldays , and he had soon realized that Hilary controlled it . |
| 6 | By the time he let her catch him , Claire had forgotten what he 'd said , and he had temporarily forgotten why he said it . |
| 7 | He 'd walked up and down those shitawful streets , absorbing the sights and sounds and smells of the real Machinian Oswaldston , and he had tentatively rendered them in his mind in Brobdingnagian words . |
| 8 | To do it , he had to have more privacy than his room allowed , and he had tentatively approached Captain Dawson , who was home on leave and was painting the porch , for permission to put a table and chair in the garage , so that he could work there . |
| 9 | She 'd told him she 'd have to go back to work and he had laughingly agreed , making some quip about being escort to a star and hitting the gossip columns . |
| 10 | He speculated that perhaps it had been years , and he had simply forgotten . |
| 11 | Cos got it up on the side and he had n't showed her and he was just pressing oh what 's that |
| 12 | It 's two nil to Notts , it 's stuff here because Tony scored and he had n't scored previously this season when he banged one in on eight minutes . |
| 13 | I went to the kitchen for something to eat but I 'd finished my food the night before and he had n't given me any more . |
| 14 | She was somewhat dictatorial and he had n't liked the total lack of sympathy she had shewn for her daughter . |
| 15 | ATC were still held in awe , and he had n't wanted to admit to Benson that he was lost . |
| 16 | She had refused to disrupt an already smoothly running system and he had n't pressed the point . |
| 17 | Dolly had stirred up a hornets ' nest when she pinched the wallet , and he had n't made it any better by steaming the letter open . |
| 18 | He looked less glamorous without his uniform of short white apron , and he had n't said much except for that boring rubbish about aliens . |
| 19 | Her defences were already activated and registering red alert , and he had n't said a word yet ! |
| 20 | I 'd no idea how he 'd got the invite because it was supposed to be a tournament for the top eight players in the world , and he had n't reached that standard . |
| 21 | The curtains were drawn over the windows looking towards Regent 's Park and he had n't turned on the light . |
| 22 | His favourite topics were sex and sex and he had n't repeated himself once in three years . |
| 23 | That 's not too bad actually except the day the young men loaded it back onto the trailer when we 'd finished and it was one of these corners , and I happened to be muggins on the corner where that lever was , and he had n't tied it , it was only in the ratchet , you know , he should have tied it of course . |
| 24 | Supposedly for American sympathizers to the Nazi cause , as far as Asa knew , they never had more than half a dozen members and he had n't met the others . |
| 25 | The desk and carpet were his badges of rank and he had n't presumed nor even thought to change them . |
| 26 | She had n't heard Tom 's approach … and he had n't called her Lindie since Boxing Day . |
| 27 | It had been five hours since he 'd got home , and he had n't slept in that time . |
| 28 | And he had n't forgotten them . |
| 29 | And he had n't known one thing about it . |
| 30 | The marriage must have been in trouble even then , he thought , and he had n't known . |