Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv prt] [conj] [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd get so much grain and they 'd eat it so quickly that it swelled out before they had time to digest it . |
| 2 | And in one respect it 's not quite erm as straightforward as I 've made it appear , and perhaps after all I 'm not wrong in making the claim I did , because E P Thompson , the historian , erm was the person who really made the discovery in the first place , and it came about because he had been interested in the possible links between the Muddletonians and Blake , and this led him to ask questions which , in a roundabout way , led to the discovery of the archive . |
| 3 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |
| 4 | It turned out that they had instead invested in an airline which never took off , a college that had no students , and a luxury yacht . |
| 5 | It turned out that they had come to consult me . |
| 6 | After 2 weeks , she reported back there had n't been any improvement but it turned out that she had bought herself some Arg Nit tablets as she did n't like the taste of the alcoholic water the LM was made up in ! |
| 7 | It turned out that she had gone for a hill walk on her own with an agreed pick up point by him in the car . |
| 8 | It turned out that she had had palpitations in the past but had forgotten about them . |
| 9 | She was in fact very thin but had this huge wire frame around her ’ It turned out that she 'd been coming in a couple of times a week , stealing hundreds of pounds worth of clothes , hanging them on her frame then walking out . |
| 10 | It turned out that he had locked himself out of his room which was likely to be embarrassing as I , for one , was not about to go down to reception for a key for him . |
| 11 | It turned out that he had a small dredger , an even smaller budget , and a very primitive brand of mowing machine . |
| 12 | That was at Newcastle , where he faded to be fourth to Mazmoor but it turned out that he had hit a hurdle or two and cut his legs badly . |
| 13 | It turned out that he 'd inched along the parapet — a thin one about six inches wide — and had a good peek at us through the windows . |
| 14 | Recently it broke down and he has been told that it could cost up to £400 to get him mobile again . |
| 15 | And then soon after it went off and it 's never come on since . |
| 16 | It pointed out that he had , after considerable difficulty , recently obtained a new lease for Montagu House and had commissioned Burn to rebuild it . |
| 17 | It pointed out that he had a good defence to the action , namely that he was not responsible for publication . |