Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [subord] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this route , indirect and long drawn out as it had been , the long history of capital punishment for murder came to a conclusion . |
| 2 | The singing of the choirs was less assured here than it had been in the group of European folk songs , arranged and conducted by Duncan Hanner at the start of the concert . |
| 3 | Radio Lumière was forcibly closed down after it had reported the massacre of 40 peasants by the army in the village of Carrefour , south west of Port-au-Prince . |
| 4 | The heavy furniture of the lobby was still arranged exactly as it had been in 1950 . |
| 5 | He was always on the watch for an affront , which he would often imagine even when it had not been intended , an easy thing for a Frenchman at a politically sensitive time . |
| 6 | It was all neatly laid out as it had been the day before . |
| 7 | He had mentioned it to me , in a roundabout sort of way , but I could never work out when it had happened or how old I was when it occurred . |