Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paschal 's grant of 1103 certainly extended the primacy to Anselm 's successors , but only so far as it had been ‘ enjoyed by Anselm 's predecessors ’ . |
| 2 | In almost all reports in 1942 , this ‘ war weariness ’ and longing for peace , now by no means always linked to expectations of glorious victory and often highly pessimistic , dominates much more strongly than it had done a year earlier . |
| 3 | Mandy , her battle-lust having died down as quickly as it had set in , flopped down on Charity 's bed , and patted the spot beside her . |
| 4 | By now they were almost halfway down , the drop not so far as it had been , but it was still a long way and Maggie almost crept to the slight shelter of the rocky bank . |
| 5 | the affair blew over as quickly as it had begun , for Bayley removed his sons from the School at the end of the Summer Term . |
| 6 | Now that the rush of anger had abated just as quickly as it had risen she felt cold , icy tremors rippling along her veins . |
| 7 | The mortaring stopped just as suddenly as it had started , and it was quiet again . |
| 8 | Then , just as suddenly as it had appeared , it dived , sliding back into the earth at an immense speed . |
| 9 | But just as suddenly as it had begun all this ended three years later , leaving the halls deserted . |
| 10 | The French boat slipped away as silently as it had arrived . |
| 11 | Then it cut off as suddenly as it had started . |
| 12 | The cloudburst switched itself off as abruptly as it had started , and the moon , peering momentarily out from an ink-black cloudscape , showed a coastal desert of pure white sand backed by low hills of chemical-green and violent reds , cactus everywhere and trucks parked on the dirt verge , most of them painted in livid crimson on white — Optimista , Primero de Mayo , La Virgen . |
| 13 | As a result , by the end of the decade , output per person in manufacturing was half as much again as it had been at the start of the decade . |
| 14 | The knowledge that the larger margin was there for the taking , if you were bold enough to seize it , exercised him as much now as it had done back in 1973 . |
| 15 | NATO and Warsaw Pact negotiators in Vienna were indeed moving towards broad agreement on ( i ) the exchange of military data ( which began to flow far more freely than it had done in the past ) ; ( ii ) intrusive verification regimes ; and ( iii ) " asymmetric " force reductions owing to Warsaw Pact superiority . |
| 16 | Many of the greatest treasures in National Trust houses would have been sold abroad long ago if it had not been for the ‘ in lieu ’ system , which was established in 1956 and which enabled private owners to give works of art to the nation in lieu of capital taxes . |
| 17 | He had lain quite still then and it had worked . |