Example sentences of "[indef pn] it had " in BNC.

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1 I do not think I can bear this , thought Grainne , but even as the thought was framed , she knew that for someone it had had to be borne , there had been no escaping it , this bottomless dark pit , this vast endless night sea …
2 The Conservative Party ( CP ) described them as " a recipe for revolution " , whereas the Democratic Party said that the proposals included virtually everything it had called for .
3 The Italian farm minister , Giovanni Fontana , said Italy had done everything it had been asked to do but the commission still had some technical questions .
4 Except that on this day , while it hunted for flies , one frog lost its way and crawled around the side of one of the outermost petals , or possibly leaves , and saw something it had never seen before .
5 Not least , the CIA was induced to help before it realized that the man with whom it would be dealing was one it had already discarded .
6 Large armchairs , with loose covers , looked comfortable , but when I sat in one it had a broken spring .
7 Lesley Suttling , who manages the Jobcentre , said she thought that the fair , which was the first one it had staged , had been very successful .
8 In some of the other houses the stable was now a double garage , but in this one it had been blocked in and a window installed .
9 Far from having run its course , the struggle for the emancipation of the serfs was about to enter an even more heated phase than the one it had just been going through .
10 They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call
11 Christmas one it had
12 The 35-year-old German , with just two top-10 finishes in his nine previous U.S. Opens , admitted he has speeded up his routine but said if anything it had enhanced , rather than impaired , his performances .
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