Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would not look too good if a 110 flown by a man well over forty had outpaced and outmanoeuvred two Spitfires piloted by ‘ the cream ’ . |
| 2 | The electrodes that had been implanted in its brain had been removed ; the scars from the surgery had healed and grown over with fur . |
| 3 | Shooing the men from the room , the two women undressed her , examined the injuries she had sustained and began the task of cleaning her up . |
| 4 | I understood she had remarried and had gone abroad . ’ |
| 5 | He told Freddie that Fiona had remarried and produced the son and heir for which her family had long been hoping . |
| 6 | Sometimes James 's accompanying letters were longer and more convoluted than the script changes , but it was becoming clear that the linking material would hinge around Joyce 's letters to her mother who , when Joyce was nineteen , had remarried and returned to America . |
| 7 | The French , after all , were the enemies of Russia , and indirectly of the family he despised , and the officers who had hated and ridiculed him . |
| 8 | Only one school evaluated had formed and retained a permanent library committee . |
| 9 | Asked whether Mr McCrickard had jumped or had been pushed , Sir Nicholas stressed that the golden handshake was not ‘ hush money ’ , adding that the resignation had been mutually agreed following restructuring talks . |
| 10 | He was voicing a desire which he feared might only bring him Meh'Lindi 's contempt — so soon after she had honoured and anointed him with her body . |
| 11 | In preparations for post-war construction , Resistance figures had planned to ban the continued publication of all newspapers that had collaborated and to create a press that would be economically viable as well as politically free and pluralist : there should be no repetition of the venality of journalists , the concentration of ownership , the submission to the forces of capital , of the inter-war years . |
| 12 | But Rohmer had to know the answer to the questions that had fascinated and intrigued him for so long ; the questions that bore down on him with ever-increasing force during the drug-induced hallucinatory periods that were now so frequent in his life . |
| 13 | I used heavy orange nylon fishing-line for the string , wound round a specially made drum for the winch , which I had strengthed and fitted with a chest-brace . |
| 14 | The High Street had been left to the pimps and the down-and-outs , and in the ancient College grounds where once the Black Friars had taught and studied in a universe made of crystal spheres , there was only the clang and clatter of brake couplings and buffers . |
| 15 | At that word she raised her head and looked at him again , and long , and behind the clear disillusionment of her eyes a burning darkness had gathered and hung , glowing from deep within her . |
| 16 | While he sang to the girl the Don wants to come to her window , calling her his treasure , asking her not to be cruel , at least to let him see her , he looked at Alice , turned his face away from the audience who had gathered and looked at her . |
| 17 | And that morning 's takings had trebled and brought her new custom , for he had always seen to it that he was shod well and had good small clothes and shirts . |
| 18 | For a poet so hostile to Virgil to discover that in extremis only Virgil had foreseen and foresuffered his predicament , and thereby eased it — this surely constitutes a very poignant moment in literary history , and in a history rather larger than ‘ literary ’ may suggest . |
| 19 | The emperor and empress had foreseen and tried to forestall resentment on Louis the German 's part at the grant to Charles . |
| 20 | He was not sure how she would take it , leaving the house before they had intended and moving up north ; also , in the last few years he had got into the habit of sparing her any unnecessary decisions or arguments . |
| 21 | She slept longer than she had intended and woke to the glare of full morning and the bleat of the telephone . |
| 22 | Despite the heavy mist nearly 40 walkers assembled at St Hedda 's Church and were led by John Brown who had arranged and co-ordinated the walk . |
| 23 | The early Earth-people had not given up on anything ; they had conquered and explored and invented and they had made a marvellous and memorable world . |
| 24 | The population was becoming less markedly English than it had been at the beginning of the century , with a large number of Ulstermen ( who felt the operation of the leasehold system was squeezing them out of land they had conquered and settled in Ireland ) , Scotsmen , and Germans among the settlers . |
| 25 | If members of a conquering nation called upon the nation they had conquered and continued to hold down to forget their specific nationality and position , to ‘ sink national differences ’ and so forth , that was not internationalism , it was nothing else but preaching to them submission to the yoke , and attempting to justify and perpetuate the domination of the conqueror under the cloak of internationalism . |
| 26 | He noticed how bare the room was of the bits and pieces that usually make two lives one life ; but Carla had tried to compensate for that with a beachcomber 's finds : little groups of pebbles and shells on the windowsills , a fan of dried marram in a vase , a gnarled limb of driftwood that she had smoothed and varnished . |
| 27 | Prior to this meeting , which lasted 8 hours , members had been sent a draft constitution , the handiwork of Charles Gorham , who had consulted and taken the advice of his solicitor , Mr R S Wigin of Leeds . |
| 28 | In an intervention during the Home Secretary 's speech , I asked whether he had consulted or heard from the Prison Governors Association about the Bill . |
| 29 | Half the Cabinet or more , the rumour went , had rebelled and demanded Chamberlain give an ultimatum to the Germans , whether or not the French joined in . |
| 30 | Night after night with Biff he had shuffled and dealt , bid and bluffed , winning at first , winning over and over . |