Example sentences of "at the [noun sg] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You 'd have asked at the door if it had been that . |
| 2 | Once , someone had thrown a piece of lighted paper in a bottle at the house but it had not gone through the window . |
| 3 | Jed would have been at the party if it had not been his duty evening with the Safeguards . |
| 4 | Soldiers initially alleged that they fired at the car after it had driven through an army checkpoint and hit a soldier . |
| 5 | It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing . |
| 6 | ‘ She met some guy in there that day , some guy she used to go with , and he must 've said something because the next thing anyone knew , she was screaming at him , Pete was in the bar the morning after , he said the window was all over the floor , apparently she 'd thrown an ashtray at the guy and it had missed and taken the whole window out instead , and when he took her by the arm and tried to calm her down , she shook him off and ran out of the bar , right out in the street , and like I said , it was the bottom of a hill and there was a truck coming — ‘ |
| 7 | Whichever way , she probably had n't given it much thought at the time and it had been some time later when her mother had told her that he had left the country and gone abroad to work . |
| 8 | He was working at ICI Billingham at the time and it had become habit , from his days as a London businessman , to wear a flower . |