Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | William looked up at her and Hari smiled , pleased with the way his cheeks had filled out and that the set of his shoulders was straight now , his fear of violence having given way to a new confidence in himself . |
| 2 | One foggy night she lost her way and had to grope along the bank for some way finally realising that she had circled round and returned to the Halling side by mistake . |
| 3 | But erm if people fell sick , you know , anybody fell sick , well you all , you had to fall in and fill their place . |
| 4 | He was , of course , the man who had once brought in a cup , painted black on the inside and white on the outside , and , after pointing out its close resemblance to the soul of the average sinner , had jumped up and down on it , foaming at the mouth . |
| 5 | So a rumour grew up that perhaps , at the last minute , he had jumped up and caught hold of part of the car and had clambered on to it somehow . |
| 6 | The causeway commanded a view of all this region of the moor , but once he had jumped down and was in the shallow bowl of Goughdale , he could see nothing except the remains of surface workings and the louring slopes of Big Allen . |
| 7 | In the early days of World Championship Grand Prix racing Brazil had to sit back and watcher her next-door neighbour Argentina take all the honours through Juan Manuel Fangio . |
| 8 | But he was shaking so badly that he had to sit down and have a rest . |
| 9 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 10 | Edouard thought of Isobel 's family , of her grandfathers , uncles , cousins , who had propped up and maintained an empire , who had fought , and ruled , in India , in Africa . |
| 11 | Worse , they had lost Gooch after a ball from Moseley had reared up and struck him on the left hand , breaking a bone , although until the match was over even his team thought it was only bruised . |
| 12 | Oil had leaked in and formed a rainbow sheen on the surface . |
| 13 | A voice that they had heard over and over again as they sat in Keith 's sitting-room . |
| 14 | It was the second time they had broken up and been reconciled . |
| 15 | About 30 tons of turf and top soil , and several tons of burned tarmac , were removed from the area over which the aircraft had broken up and come to rest ; the tyres of vehicles , footwear of personnel , and all items of equipment used at the site , were taken to the hanger and cleaned of mud and grass . |
| 16 | But the Charlie Bubbles character , which Finney played , his marriage had broken up and he was n't getting on with his kids . |
| 17 | Old Red waited until the Jemps-Dungarvan mutual-admiration society had broken up and Mr Jemps was climbing into his lorry . |
| 18 | He was on hand to take the pass after Kilford had broken through and ended a fine performance by setting up wing Byrom for a try . |
| 19 | The myths of their people told how the Elder Gods had broken through and laid waste to the cosmos . |
| 20 | Six months later the Great War had broken out and she had found a new cause . |
| 21 | But in the sold out hall , a full scale riot had broken out and police who had been called did not allow the band to go back onstage . |
| 22 | But in the sold out hall , a full scale riot had broken out and police who had been called did not allow the band to go back onstage . |
| 23 | Sutherland had said that he was the owner of the house and had received a phone call to say that youngsters had broken in and were vandalising it . |
| 24 | Tonight on the phone she was sounding down ; the washing machine had broken down and the cat was thought to have broken its hip . |
| 25 | If the provinces refuse to co-operate with the federal government , or decide to resign en masse , the president could say that government had broken down and he had grounds for sending Mr Sharif packing all over again . |
| 26 | For a while , there , he 'd as good as haunted the place in the late afternoons … but then the van had broken down and getting into town had n't been so easy , and besides the restaurant had become so damned busy that he 'd become just another face in an ever-changing crowd . |
| 27 | Camille knew that it could have been but understood that Sam was putting dinner off until the last possible moment in case the boy from the bistro turned up , breathless and apologetic , because his motorbike had broken down and he 'd had to walk . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , his marriage had broken down and he and his wife had separated . |
| 29 | Er the heating had broken down and I do n't know whether it was because of the heating or because of the tablets or whatever but they 're , they 're alright now . |
| 30 | Dana could put on a good show ; no one would know she had broken down and confessed her need for Roman 's strength . |