Example sentences of "and [conj] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | In previous years the competition cakes had been auctioned off to benefit the Belltower Restoration Fund — and that had been the intention this year , too — but there would be no bidders , now . |
| 2 | and that had been so cruelly denied to Isaac by Jacob himself in his youth . |
| 3 | Yet for all the expense , the effort , the bloodshed , Henry achieved only one obvious success , and that had nothing to do with Hertford 's armies . |
| 4 | ‘ Because there used to be a pond there , and that had water in it ’ . |
| 5 | And that had always been my intention . ’ |
| 6 | Only once had he returned after they all left and that had been bad enough , like a dream — no , like stepping into the set and scenario of some frightening film , a Hitchcock movie perhaps . |
| 7 | At hockey there was a vacancy for the goalkeeper and that had been my position in the school team . |
| 8 | He found that Christians had stood firmly by their faith and practice ; only one family had lapsed , and that had been very weak , even in the best of times . |
| 9 | The occasional and unfortunate accidents have been due to inadequate safety procedures , not to lack of understanding of the basic nuclear processes ; had there been some previously unknown nuclear process taking place at room temperature in solid materials and that had been somehow overlooked , then it is likely that we would have discovered this long ago in some reactor . |
| 10 | And his own man in the Washington Field Office , the CI-3 team , and putting in the longest hours and never a word of complaint , and that had won him the job in the Attaché 's office in Rome . |
| 11 | The crisis of 1965 was a continuation of the argument that had begun in 1961 with the Fouchet Plan and that had resurfaced over the application by Britain to join the EEC . |
| 12 | It is claimed that no society can maintain high fertility in the face of two generations of mass education , and that had been achieved in much of Western Europe by the end of the nineteenth century ( Caldwell 1982 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd never had any trouble getting pregnant , ’ she says , ‘ And that had been my downfall in a way . |
| 14 | The only appointment of significance which he had made himself was that of Neville Chamberlain as Chancellor , and that had been done only two days before the beginning of his holiday . |
| 15 | He had been in hospital many years before to have his appendix removed and that had been an uneventful procedure . |
| 16 | He knew that a bomb disposal man had failed to defuse safely the Argentine bomb lodged in the frigate 's engine room , which had exploded , killing him , and that had started a fire on board . |
| 17 | He had mentioned that they would have the full story on Saturday and that had changed Patrick 's mind for him . |
| 18 | And it was done like this , this was done at a period when this church was changing from a Roman Catholic church The the window the original glass in this was a massive stained glass window of the crucifixion , and that had been put there in the fifteenth century by a Lord Mayor of York who was very wealthy and very religious and he wanted to show how wealthy and religious he was by pu er donating this window to the church . |
| 19 | He had not had a woman for weeks — not since that last trip to the Wilds — and that had been a sing-song girl , all artifice and expertise . |
| 20 | Just to sort of flag up jobs which were over a hundred thousand pounds and that had finished or are well on their way this year . |
| 21 | He 'd closed his eyes once in the last forty hours , and that had only been a restless doze in the back of the car on the way to the border . |
| 22 | Only once had I feared the heat of Egypt and that had been in a waking dream . |
| 23 | I had wished Nour dead because he would not stay with me , and that had been a palimpsest of desire . |
| 24 | It had taken until the long , open left-hander that leads down into Glen Kinglas before my erection had finally subsided , and that had been mostly naked fear ; Verity had lost it just for a second , the rear of the car nudging out towards the wrong side of the road as we whanged round the bend . |
| 25 | They were just o ordinary little places , all the places that ever I was in , they were Yes the the kitchen and that had we 'd rafters and then there was er the fireplace a just er generally just like , were two stone and there 's ribs across . |
| 26 | Appeal was the only corrective for a mistake by a High Court judge and that had been removed by statute . |
| 27 | And that had actually ruined Nigel 's crime . |
| 28 | In her memory it was too bleak , too desolate , and that had given it an added power . |
| 29 | She 'd found her way to Charlie through another of the contact magazines , back in the days when his wife had been handling that end of the business ; she 'd had to send along a photograph and that had gone a little against the grain — in all of her moonlighting so far , she 'd never let slip so much as her name — but everything had worked out well . |
| 30 | Only one train crossed the near-distant bridge at this hour and that had been a night train going nowhere , its carriages empty and its windows dark . |