Example sentences of "[noun] to [noun] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to be mulling things over because he must have seen that this had not been the shock to Maggie that it had to him . |
| 2 | The company recognised that it faced a greater problem in attracting the Kent-based ( Orpington ) staff to Stevenage than it had in persuading the north London staff to move — distance alone was an important consideration . |
| 3 | The league said it would not send cats to Coundon as it had heard of a case of a kitten being used as live bait for dogs . |
| 4 | Petiver also bequeathed his own collection to Sloane and it had taken him many years to bring all this material into an orderly array . |
| 5 | The Lord of the Rings would have offered fewer hostages to criticism if it had been written like that . |