Example sentences of "and [conj] [pers pn] had " in BNC.

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1 He listed all the sculptures made and where they had been found .
2 In general these texts give the impression that where interpretative principles had already been worked out for legacies , trusts followed them ; and where they had not , much the same principles were adopted for both institutions .
3 News of the Sheikhs , where they were going and where they had been .
4 He told him about their ruined holiday and where they had spent the previous night , although he did not reveal his unusual experience .
5 But I did discover where they had been coming in — through the stable and into the wall — and where they had resided when I pulled down the ceiling lathes in the dairy and a load of old nests and rat droppings fell on to my head .
6 This time in the hotels I particularly noticed how many people of different tongues were also staying there — all babbling away and making me wonder who they were and where they had come from .
7 On the day on which he had lost her he had sat for hours on the bed in the attic where she had lived during her time with him , and where they had shared their afternoon of love , and now , on the evening of the second day , he sat there again .
8 It was important to present an accurate annual review of visitors from the three groups and where they had been .
9 In many cases they focused on areas which AEA had already identified as essential to our future success and where we had already initiated action .
10 People would stop in the street asking how we were and where we had come from all in perfect English .
11 This is a great piece of garden machinery but only if your land is already free of perennial weeds such as dandelion , dock and , the worst pest of all , creeping buttercup ; if not , all it will do is to chop them into little pieces , and where you had one when you used it , you 'll have a hundred or more next year .
12 And this , in spite of some effort on my part to prevent it , led to the subject of science fiction , and where it had gone since the original efforts of Swift and Verne and H. G. Wells .
13 But the distance from where the tank now sat blocking the way at the head of the stairs , and where it had to be , at the end of the landing , was too great for them to shift it .
14 When I got into Holloway they have them little forms and they 've got pictures of a body with all arrows and everything , and where I had any bruises the doctor put these marks .
15 In Berchtesgaden , where Hitler had his home on the Obersalzberg , and where he had enjoyed special veneration in former days , the SD reported that his speech on New Year 's Eve merely elicited the response that it ‘ brought nothing new ’ , and there was ‘ hardly any credibility worth mentioning ’ left for his last broadcast speech on 30 January 1945 .
16 He drove past the Café Unic , where his father and Jacques , and other members of their cadre had held their last meeting , and where he had dined with Isobel the night he asked her to marry him .
17 Ever since he could think at all he had realised that the class which exploited the worker in every country would fight to the last ditch for the sake of keeping the worker where he was and where he had been all his life .
18 Major General Sir William Dornberg received the pencil-written despatch in the town hall at Mons which he had made into his headquarters , and where he had transformed the ancient council chamber into his map room .
19 Now he strode out not apprehensive that he might have lost contact with that gift of powerful calm which had so effectively stilled the thresh of his emotions , but confident that as soon as he reached the Point and stood as and where he had first stopped — the experience would be renewed and reinforced , the key would fit the lock .
20 When you told me that Stapleton had owned a school in the north of England , I checked on him and where he had come from .
21 What , after all , could be more suitable for the Lionisers than the hotel within whose walls Dickens spent so much time , and where he had completed Nicholas Nickleby , the Albion ‘ where we had that merry night two years ago ’ , he wrote to his friend Forster , an occasion made the merrier by indulgence in the landlord 's ‘ excellent hollands ’ .
22 He had managed to haul himself into a position where he gave rather more and received rather fewer orders and proceeded to look around to see how he could get out of the insurance office where economic necessity had landed him and where he had learned only a flashy taste in clothes and stationery .
23 Yes , she was undoubtedly holding down a real job , in a man 's world ; and where she had gone , other women would follow .
24 ‘ Here ! ’ he said , looking about him and seeing he had their attention .
25 It was vital to give the impression at any rate that I and my board colleagues were in control of affairs and that we had a clear strategy that somehow was going to restore our business to its former glory .
26 We explained that we had not realized their boat was part of the Coast Guard and that we had not heard them aright in their orders to stop .
27 People clung to our arms as we walked out and an Officer emptied Pernod over Gibeau 's tunic , telling him that it was Christmas and that we had a right to enjoy ourselves .
28 Reed chairman Peter Davis commented : ‘ In May 1991 I explained that our existing publishing and information business had first priority so far as further investment was concerned and that we had decided not to join our partners in putting more funds into BSkyB .
29 We agreed that the lack of action was an outrage and that we had to draw people 's attention to it .
30 Miss Fergusson had maintained , when they first stood before the haloed mountain , that there were two explanations of everything , that each required the exercise of faith , and that we had been given free will in order that we might choose between them .
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