Example sentences of "it had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last week it had positively snowed letters and business . |
| 2 | It was built so very near the sea that it had narrowly escaped being carried away in high tides , and doubtless would have been altogether afloat but for its having a foundation of some two feet and a half of stone . |
| 3 | It had immediately bombed and Sir David English , editor of the Daily Mail , had had to be brought in to rescue it by throwing out the new design ideas and making it look as old-fashioned as its daily counterpart . |
| 4 | It had immediately struck him , of course , that the latter , had they been aware of it , would have strongly resented the interference of spiritual sanitary workers . |
| 5 | The Communists had abandoned the Leftwing Movement in 1929 and it had immediately collapsed . |
| 6 | As a practical instrument of Church government , it had briefly revived a vision of a federated Church under papal leadership . |
| 7 | He raised his hand and placed it on her arm where it had briefly touched before . |
| 8 | But rather that the time and thought put into it had somehow polluted me . |
| 9 | A garbled version of it had somehow reached England . |
| 10 | ‘ I think so , ’ answered Mildred , though in fact she had made up the tale on the spur of the moment and it had somehow got rather out of hand . |
| 11 | The third was heading for Isengard , to alarm Pippin on its way with the thought that it had somehow been despatched for him ( 11 , 204 ) . |
| 12 | It had somehow to reconcile conflicting opinions . |
| 13 | She had kept her secret for two weeks — but today it had somehow slipped out . |
| 14 | It had nowhere to go . |
| 15 | Two cars heading towards it had nowhere left to go . |
| 16 | There 's somethin' offensive aboot seein' it destroyed as if it had nae right tae exist . |
| 17 | It was suffering from a bad wound on its hip , and it had either lost or been abandoned by its mother . |
| 18 | It had large sales for a time in England and America , but it had neither the originality nor the power of his first book . |
| 19 | Too rapidly , however , Mussolini became the junior partner , carrying out the Führer 's personal wishes and dragging Italy into a disastrous war when it had neither the industrial base of Germany , nor Hitler 's personal enthusiasm for total war . |
| 20 | It had neither the lifeboat provided for in Act of Parliament nor lifebelts for the passengers . |
| 21 | The Ingard group is in serious financial trouble , and a fortnight ago presented a cheque for £300,000 which it had neither finds nor a sufficient overdraft to meet — it had already exceeded the limit of the facilities which the bank was prepared to allow . |
| 22 | Lotze 's sentence was , however , above the nine years requested by the prosecution ; the court did not consider his to be a true case of state 's evidence , since it had neither led to further arrests nor prevented a crime . |
| 23 | On April 4 President Özal announced that Turkey had admitted 100,000 Kurdish refugees , reversing its previous decision to close its borders ( which it had taken on the grounds that it had neither the infra-structure nor the resources to cope with the flood of Kurdish refugees ) . |
| 24 | But by the 1970s it had again become respectable to stress ethnicity : Arab-Americans , like blacks , Poles , Italians and Jews , became more interested in their roots . |
| 25 | It had however taken me 40 gallons to fly from Duxford down to Stansted and I felt that somehow I was on a loser here ! |
| 26 | It had thereby perpetuated the peasants ' servile dependence on the nobles . |
| 27 | It had strangely long , fine black hair . |
| 28 | Although the earlier calculation of the value of the SDR in terms of a basket of sixteen currencies had the advantage of making it more stable in value than individual currencies , it had nevertheless certain shortcomings . |
| 29 | Like the Gendarmerie , the Sûreté was a pan-Indochina service , owing loyalty to the state interests of France , not of the native sovereigns , of whose territories it had nevertheless a free run … |
| 30 | It had nevertheless become increasingly clear that Ashrawi and Husseini , negotiating the final version of the Palestinians ' " letter of assurances " , were acting in close liaison with PLO headquarters in Tunis . |