Example sentences of "and had [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told us unsettling stories of Chinese merchants who had insisted on travelling aboard the prahus to keep an eye on their cargo , and had somehow been lost overboard while their merchandise appeared for sale in harbours far from their intended destination . |
| 2 | Downstairs , on one side of the front door was a large sitting-room and on the other a bathroom which had certainly started life as the front parlour and had probably been used only on occasions of wedding parties and funerals . |
| 3 | References in the work of Constantine Porphyrogenitus , written in the tenth century , indicate that they were settled in Dalmatia in his time and had probably been there for two hundred years . |
| 4 | But now that Gharr had taken Mala away — and had probably been enjoying her , as he 'd quaintly put it — I 'd began to see that I really had no choice . |
| 5 | It was later confirmed , however , that the devices were active and had probably been installed during 1991 . |
| 6 | By the early seventies , Teheran was littered with forgotten men who had worked in the government or the court and had once-once was too often-dared to question a decision or a policy and had thenceforth been frozen out of all official life . |
| 7 | In the meantime the first of the warbird collection was two-seater Fury T.20S G–BCOW which had been bought from Doug Arnold at Blackbushe in 1976 and had previously been used in West Germany on contract to the Luftwaffe as a target tug . |
| 8 | Daniels , the first layman to become Headmaster of Stockport Grammar School , was a Cambridge graduate and a first-class Mathematician ( fifth Wrangler in 1891 ) , and had previously been Head of Physics and Head of Mathematics at Nottingham High School . |
| 9 | The Katz Motel was a klick out of town , and had n't been touched by the firefight . |
| 10 | Topaz had Amossy 's fierce , unyielding spirit and had n't been broken by the indifference and contempt shewn to her since she was old enough to understand such treatment . |
| 11 | and wild beyond er , that one boy who was and had n't been used to that sort of thing , for his father had kept a small cook stock his companion that unless he has another basin of gruel he was afraid he might , he might some night happen to eat , eat the boy he slept next to , who happened to be a weakly youth of tender eight and they , and they impeccably believed him . |
| 12 | They were flaking paint and had n't been refurbished since I was fourteen . |
| 13 | Pam knew about Rosie , that we 'd done everything together and had n't been split up and that it was hard for me to leave her . |
| 14 | He had another , older boy , Shaun ; but Shaun had taken himself to Australia at the age of eighteen and had n't been home since . |
| 15 | There were no sounds of any kind coming from Alina 's bedroom , and had n't been for more than an hour . |
| 16 | Roy , who was about four and had n't been used to drinking out of a glass , took a bite at his and broke a chunk out of it . |
| 17 | That he 'd seen no-one and had n't been anywhere near the clunch pit or the derelict car . |
| 18 | Joe had called her some names , and had n't been reassured at all . |
| 19 | I had a feeling they 'd been blocked off by the malais and had n't been able to go by the quickest route they wanted . |
| 20 | I remember that morning vividly as I was so nervous and had n't been able to sleep much the night before . |
| 21 | The coward choked out that you were still alive and had n't been harmed , but it did n't save his neck . |
| 22 | The only other male in sight was about four years old and had n't been potty-trained . |
| 23 | I 'd have told Jamie as much , too , if I 'd been able to talk and had n't been concentrating on putting one foot in front of the other . |
| 24 | The first time because he had allowed himself to be called away in the middle of things and had n't been able to supervise the men properly . |
| 25 | ‘ He was a devoted husband and had n't been on holiday for two years , ’ said son Liam , of Oundle , Northants . |
| 26 | Bramble was forty-five and had not been thus addressed for almost a quarter of a century . |
| 27 | The arbitrator stated that the elderly couple in question had been sold an unsuitable product and had not been given adequate risk warnings . |
| 28 | The Leeds said the plan to close 60 of its 481 branches across the country was part of its long-term strategy and had not been forced on it by the housing recession . |
| 29 | She had no defensive injuries and had not been sexually assaulted . |
| 30 | He said 3i had always taken a long-term view and had not been as badly hit by the recession as the banks had because it had been cautious . |