Example sentences of "it had [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been a mere moment of whiteness seen out of the corner of her eye but it had not moved purposefully like a horse does with a rider . |
| 2 | The laughter had been absent for a while , but it had not withdrawn far from him , the marks of its permanent habitation were still there . |
| 3 | It had not taken long for her to realise that it was not worth the risk of her position and Stephen 's love . |
| 4 | He remembered falling , and the deck coming up to hit him , which brought back the sensation — although it had n't done so at the time — of the moment just before the torpedo hit Lanark . |
| 5 | Come to that , it had better go straight into the soiled linen . |
| 6 | It had never hurt before in anything but high jump but this time it hurt long jumping . |
| 7 | By 1988 , it had almost doubled again to 600 , and boats based on Iwate took over 90 per cent of the total reported Japanese dolphin and porpoise catch . |
| 8 | He knew that he 'd been close , but then somehow it had all slipped away from him ; when Alina had n't come out and the three of them had finally gone into the building , it was to find incomprehension from the woman who lived alone and an empty flat where she said she 'd gone for help . |