Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | I charged at them , yelping encouragement to the wheelbarrow , and patting it when it had done well . |
| 2 | He found a rusty man-trap in a cupboard — an evil contraption of chains and springs and teeth — and assured her that it had taken the leg off more than one poacher in its day . |
| 3 | I sat cross-legged just by the blaze , staring into it from up-wind until it was out and only the metal of the Black Destroyer remained , then I took the sooty skeleton and buried it where it had been ruined , at the bottom of the hill . |
| 4 | He suddenly captured her hand and placed it where it had been before , over the steady beat of his heart . |
| 5 | Very occasionally she would come and tell me that it had been left so immaculate that she 'd had almost nothing to do and instead would remove some of the dust in the melin for us . |
| 6 | Brian had not merely hated the cockerel but feared it since it had got through the fence and bitten him on the leg . |