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 | She was an active trade unionist and had lately been elected a shop steward . |
| 10 | Most of these new arrivals had reached the area with the deliveries of Hurricanes by H.M.S. ‘ Furious ’ as already recounted , and had thus been languishing in the Pilots ' Pool at Ismailia , awaiting posting to a unit . |
| 11 | A Merlin III that Ted had preserved during 1985–1987 had penetrated deep into blue clay and had thus been cut-off from the damaging effects of oxygen . |
| 12 | According to some press comment he had provided the link between the Mafia and the DC leadership and had thus been important in keeping Sicilian voters solidly behind the DC . |
| 13 | Martin was for some years tutor to the MacLeods of Skye , and had also been at one time a scholar at Leiden University in the Netherlands . |
| 14 | Fonda was able to say that he had first tried LSD a couple of years earlier , and had also been a spasmodic user of marijuana — in between more prolific bouts of drinking vodka or scotch — since 1962 when he was turned on by Jim Mitchum at the Carlton Towers Hotel , in London . |
| 15 | For a small group of workers , however , who had experienced above average external exposure and had also been monitored for internal contamination by radionuclides , the mortality from cancer of the prostate gland and the lung was raised ( Beral et al , 1988 ) . |
| 16 | A typical Victorian gentleman of enormous energy and breadth of interest , he had combined the office with being a Guardian of the Poor , a Magistrate , a Musician of some repute , working for Stockport Sunday School and the Infirmary , and had also been Chairman of the short-lived Stockport School Board in the 1870s . |
| 17 | The second Returner had killed two men , and had also been destroyed in the process before full analysis could commence . |
| 18 | He had been criticized for failing to do enough to prevent a spate of serious attacks on foreign workers and asylum-seekers in the state , and had also been accused of working for the Stasi . |
| 19 | Michael Manley , who had resigned as Prime Minister for health reasons in March and had also been replaced as leader of the ruling People 's National Party ( PNP ) [ see p. 38808 ] , gave up his parliamentary seat in mid-April . |
| 20 | But she 'd been far too immersed in her studies , and had also been far too proud and fastidious , to experiment sexually with any of her contemporaries . |
| 21 | A post mortem showed he had been hit by five bullets and had also been struck by a number of shotgun pellets . |
| 22 | The trash cans were big and had just been emptied , and in an instant the boys were off chasing the girls and yelling at the tops of their voices . |
| 23 | The civilization founded on these existed in mature form in the United States of America in 1880 , and had just been extended , at last , to the whole of Europe itself outside the extreme south-eastern corner . |
| 24 | From 1966 to 1969 he was a fellow of Balliol College , Oxford , and had just been appointed to a readership at the time of his death . |
| 25 | On the day on which the Secretary of State gave a pledge to his party conference that everyone would have equal access to free health care , I was contacted by a constituent , Mr. Ronnie Watson , who had been waiting since September 1990 for an appointment with a consultant to discuss a possible hip operation and had just been told that he would have to wait until some unspecified date in 1992 . |
| 26 | She had also claimed that he took long liquid lunches and had even been thrown out of a wine bar for fondling another girl . |
| 27 | He had been very proud of my golfing prowess when it won me a place in the university golf team , and had even been heard to express his satisfaction when my handicap went down to scratch . |
| 28 | It was known that underground Japanese oil storage facilities had not been destroyed and had even been put into a state for use in some areas . |
| 29 | He could not know that Sophia was taking a keen interest in him and had even been considering him — provided he were not divorced or otherwise unsuitable-as a husband for her sister . |
| 30 | The plaintiff 's former employee was very familiar with the interface element ( known as " Adapter " ) which was part of the plaintiff 's " CA-Scheduler " program and had even been allowed to take a copy of the " Adapter " source code home whilst working on it . |