Example sentences of "a [noun] it had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , in London the Alliance made large gains in Tower Hamlets , but in neighbouring Islington it held only one seat in a council it had previously controlled . |
| 2 | Good food , plenty of sleep , and the knowledge that she was really wanted and loved gave her face a serenity it had never had before . |
| 3 | While the Midland had expected that its reserves would be lower than either Barclays or NatWest , both newly merged , it was horrified to learn that the true capital of Lloyds , a bank it had always looked down on , was £266m , £73m higher than its own . |
| 4 | In this way the Union successfully mobilized the population to take control in a way it had never done before , and to identify and overcome both health and social problems which had not previously been tackled . |
| 5 | Why , after all , should one small island in the North Atlantic continue forever to dominate a language it had once created , given that well over three-quarters of its native speakers now lived outside it ? |