Example sentences of "and had [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't very often go to National Hunt racing , but I went to Ascot one Friday , and had a most enjoyable afternoon . |
| 2 | But he still conveyed an easy-going personality and had a deceptively casual acting style that differed from Dustin 's volatile nature and the nervous intensity he invested in each role . |
| 3 | Mr. John Jeffery , the auctioneer , looked himself every inch a farmer and had a wonderfully fruity voice that carried a long way . |
| 4 | Æthelstan was an assiduous collector of relics and had a probably genuine concern for the salvation of his soul . |
| 5 | The YCs got punished more than anybody else and had a really hard time . |
| 6 | One of my colleagues went up to D 's cottage last weekend and PK was up for eight days about a fortnight ago , and had a really super week and not bad weather though there was a lot of snow at the roadsides on their way back — she went with current boyfriend , a nice chap who lives in Midlands . |
| 7 | Although Jerry was of the same height , he was much fairer than I , with very attractive blue eyes , he was slighter of build , and had a much sweeter disposition . |
| 8 | The resulting fuse was much more accurate and consistent in its timing , and had a much better resistance to water and the various kinds of treatment to which it was inevitably subjected in the mines . |
| 9 | These persons were not necessarily well off , but they were literate in Sinhala if not in English and had a relatively high standard of living ; they may be termed local élites . |
| 10 | Whatever might have been the prosaic reason for his initial posting to Masai District , an officer who stayed long enough and had a sufficiently striking personality could expect to become locally famous not only for his love of the Masai but also for the love they bore for him . |
| 11 | Men smoked pipes , wore roll-neck jerseys and had a stolidly dependable air about them . |
| 12 | He sang ‘ horribly out of tune ’ and had a very limited repertoire . |
| 13 | I netted the same ground six weeks later and had a very good kill of rabbits , but in the whole of my long-netting career I have never known a net to be genuinely swept away by the weight of the rabbits it caught . |
| 14 | War broke out on 3 September 1939 and had a very speedy and profound effect on London 's tramways . |
| 15 | By the autumn of 1976 , halfway through my pregnancy , I fell asleep one afternoon and had a very powerful dream . |
| 16 | In July 1904 , he referred to Laura H. , a twelve-month-old child who had contracted measles , and had a very bad attack of broncho-pneumonia ( which was a common complication at that time ) . |
| 17 | Malcolm Jubb and Jim Ridge of the Ribchester Museum acted as judges and had a very difficult task . |
| 18 | He wore a black uniform with a black cap and had a very black face due to the coal dust which rose in clouds when he shovelled coal into the engine . |
| 19 | Erm , I met Mr for the first time in the airport lounge at , erm er , er , Kennedy Airport erm , we discussed at great length and had a very interesting discussion erm , er , Pearsons erm , he accepted er , the job and h I , he has no obligation to me whatsoever and he is one of the er , members of the er , remuneration committee , and I actually take offence at what you 're saying . |
| 20 | An account of a road accident written by someone who 's learning English , and had a very limited vocabulary on it . |
| 21 | He went back to your hotel and had a very interesting chat with the switchboard operator . |
| 22 | A coach part of 45 strong travelled to the Albert Hall and had a very pleasant evening watching the displays ; another group of 12 from the Melbourne class went to the afternoon performance . |
| 23 | I wrote to him some years ago for some gardening advice , and had a very nice and helpful letter back . |
| 24 | Next day we went ashore near Kapp Lee on Edgeøya , and had a long walk up through Rosenbergdalen , a fine valley which was much more vegetated than any we had so far seen . |
| 25 | But she was also beautiful and had a marvellously expressive voice . |
| 26 | I was almost definitely always the domineering one , as I was brighter at work , and had a more forward and independent personality . |
| 27 | — that at any one time ail action sample clients who lived alone , had an OBS score of eight or more , and had no closely involved informal carer would have been in an institution without the project . |
| 28 | Valerius Geist , a well-respected mountain sheep biologist , once found a mountain goat that had been killed by another and had no less than 32 horn punctures , including several injuries to the lungs and heart . |
| 29 | Maggie thought Phoebe did it deliberately ; Phoebe was normally rather well-dressed in a casual sort of way , and had the best fitting proper designer jeans and lovely hand-knitted posh jumpers ; she had plenty of skirts and frequently wore them . |
| 30 | They were white with a lovely pink blush when in bud , and had the most powerful scent . |