Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] it had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once they had pretended they were childhood sweethearts , played at falling in love , but of course it had all ended in laughter . |
| 2 | It had been my cherished wish , if our circumstances had allowed , to create a ‘ Balancing Fund ’ so that in future years the Institute would not be wholly dependent on forecasting expenditure on the basis of income it had yet to receive . |
| 3 | Having got the kind of structure it had always insisted upon , it seems clear that Britain had no qualms about such a statement being used to promote some version of supranationalism . |
| 4 | The banks questioned in the survey argued that although the level of headhunting activity had indeed risen with the Big Bang , from their point of view it had then fallen off ; whilst many non-financial users of search , such as BICC , suggested that claims of noticeable changes in recruiting as a result of either event were wildly exaggerated . |
| 5 | A degree of comfort it had certainly provided . |
| 6 | With Nathan it had all happened the other way around . |
| 7 | Loved by Fenna and by Rachel it had never occurred to her to consider herself unlovable , but now she needed a counter-weight in the real world , and her mother would never be that for her . |