Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] it had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consortium behind the $7bn management buyout , in which BA would have a 15 per cent stake , admitted yesterday that it had been unable to complete its part of the financing . |
| 2 | Public prosecutor Andrei Makarov declared afterwards that it had been significant " not so much because it punished Ostashvili , but because it brought to light the forces standing behind this small figure and exposed the fascism which is growing in society " . |
| 3 | It was n't really their Auntie 's pub , but she worked there and it had been convenient to make all the arrangements on a friendly family footing . |
| 4 | The new device 's distributors , the Innovations mail order company , insisted however that it had been proved safe in laboratory tests . |
| 5 | Here is a new dimension of the paranormal , the sound of a diesel motor coming from a train that appeared long after it had been scrapped . |
| 6 | But solicitor Ray Tooth , who represented the wife in the £1 million split , said yesterday that it had been an exceptional case . |
| 7 | he pointed out that it had been made by a woman who met life unafraid : ‘ Georgia O'Keeffe has had her feet scorched in the laval effusiveness of terrible experience ; she has walked on fire and listened to the hissing vapours round her person … |