Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] it have [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 He jerked his hand back as if it had received an electric shock : a cheek nerve had quivered .
2 She made a gesture with a graceful hand that shut me up as if it had turned a tap .
3 But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days .
4 He then engaged full astern , causing the boat to stop as if it had hit a brick wall , and cried : ‘ Drop anchor ! ’
5 as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here .
6 I had never had him down as a kerb-crawler either , but from the state of the car it looked as if it had had a good kicking .
7 From the outside the Aeronca , with its upturned snub nose and very short undercarriage , looks for all the world as if it has suffered a heavy landing , then run full- pelt into the side of a hangar .
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