Example sentences of "and [art] [noun sg] had " in BNC.
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| 31 | By the time I arrived at B.P. there was need for many more of those whom Peter Calvocoressi calls the Indians , and the net had been cast wider to trawl the less élite from universities other than Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 32 | The incipient differences between NICRA and the DHAC had never been resolved and the Derry radicals and their allies in the Belfast Young Socialists were determined to provoke a more drastic challenge to authority than had occurred in Dungannon . |
| 33 | They were very ripe and the juice had squirted on to his shirt-front like bloodstains . |
| 34 | The Mini was back in use and the Glory had been relegated to the garage until she ‘ had time to check it out with Mr Chan ’ . |
| 35 | The boy had refused this show of illness and the Sheikh had agreed . |
| 36 | The scaffolding had been cleared away and the plastering had progressed as far as the season would allow . |
| 37 | I had a little snigger ; it had to be fully ten minutes since the last stroke of eleven , and the thunder had been murmuring dark warnings ever since . |
| 38 | The walls were unpainted and the ceiling had bits of flaking mud dangling from it . |
| 39 | yeah and the dye had all come off |
| 40 | ‘ I know that because his cigar had burned down and the ash had dropped twice off the end of it . ’ |
| 41 | The children had been watching TV and the noise had drowned out the sound of the fire raging downstairs . |
| 42 | But Ma Katz had got out of her rocking chair , and the preacherman had stared at her through the mummy 's glass eyes . |
| 43 | The sky was clear and the sunlight had a brilliance and intensity that made her head reel . |
| 44 | A short time later the Customs launch had borne down on them and the nightmare had begun . |
| 45 | The man had collapsed and the vessel had carried on running into the water . |
| 46 | ‘ I read in my Harmsworth Magazine once that a man died because he ate rabbit pie and the rabbit had been eating belladonna . |
| 47 | Nehru and the rest had no choice but to join in the general rejoicing . |
| 48 | Only a minority entered the kinds of jobs for which they had originally hoped and the rest had to take what they could get . |
| 49 | The first one was half of us were blindfolded and we were set out in a line and the rest had to move about 5–10 metres away and stand in a line . |
| 50 | On Aug. 29 an amnesty was announced for all political prisoners , said by the authorities to number 66 ; of these 44 had been arrested after the inter-ethnic massacres of August 1988 , and the rest had been accused of a plot against the government in March 1989 . |
| 51 | Then the men-at-arms under the two banners , the King 's and the Earl 's , had waited outside , and the rest had got round the gate and walked talking inside : the King Macbeth with less meat on him , like a man who fed at sea , and Siward of Northumbria the way he always was , with his chest round as a shield under his tunic , and only his hair and beard greyer than you would think for a man not much past fifty . |
| 52 | The police and their cohorts — photographers , finger-printers , pathologists and the rest had drifted away ; the corpse had been removed . |
| 53 | The structure which was destroyed by the construction of the town wall contained a row of some ten rooms ; the walls were about 1 m ( 3¼ ft ) thick , and the structure had been roofed with limestone slates . |
| 54 | Latterly , as the miles between themselves and the capital had lessened , Prince Richard had fallen uncustomarily silent . |
| 55 | But there had been a time , early in the nineteenth century , in Shelley 's day , where the head and the heart had stood a chance of marching forward together . |
| 56 | The chemistry department had a strong reputation in carbohydrate chemistry , and the story had it that as new sugars were discovered they were given names that always ended in ‘ -ose ’ — eg sucrose , glucose , fructose etc . |
| 57 | By the time Johnstone was helped ashore , the manager Willie Ormond had been alerted and the story had taken the first few faltering steps into football mythology . |
| 58 | Not when the kidnap had taken place in broad daylight and the story had already been splashed across the front page of London 's evening newspaper . |
| 59 | He and the Italian had completed their third successive one-two for the Didcot-based team . |
| 60 | Candy refused and the Italian had wandered off muttering that he would do it alone . |