Example sentences of "it had [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years this must have harmed his chest , as it had already badly discoloured his teeth . |
| 2 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 3 | It had never once crossed his mind that she would take exception to what he had done . |
| 4 | His attention returns to literature ( if it had ever really left it ) and to the role of the self in relation to discursive contexts . |
| 5 | It had almost certainly achieved its objective of jolting the Westminster government into strong action against the Provisional IRA . |
| 6 | The closer they crept -both morning and belief — the more he regretted shunning the assassin when it had so plainly wanted his company . |