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Example sentences of "it had [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	In the spring , they had had a vase of bluebells in the kitchen ; he had run up the stem of one full , blue flower and it had barely bent under his weight .
2	It had also occurred to him that if he wrote that report it would be the last thing he ever did in the Army .
3	By then , not only had the Nationalist seventh Division failed to enter Madrid , it had also failed in its first attempt to isolate the city from its northern defences in the Sierra de Guadarrama .
4	He put the fleeting temptation aside , surprised that it had even occurred to him .
5	It had even occurred to me .
6	‘ Do you want to come over for dinner sometime ? ’ said Jay , as if it had just occurred to her .
7	‘ Come early and leave early , ’ coaxed Meredith , and as though it had just occurred to him wondered aloud whether it would be a good idea to include young Harbour .
8	In fact , it had just added to his burdens .
9	It had never counted for anything that she 'd been the innocent victim , that she 'd had no control over the events which had shaped her life — she 'd carried the burden with her , locked into her soul , and at least that way she 'd felt relatively safe .
10	She 'd liked men — of course she had — but for some reason or another it had never deepened into anything else .
11	He was mystified by this phenomenon ; it had never happened to him before , so he took it as a kind of omen .
12	It had never happened to him in his life before .
13	Except that , ironically , it had never happened to him then .
14	It had never happened to him before .
15	It had never happened to her — in fact , quite the contrary , she revelled in the build-up to her own entrance , loving the rush of adrenalin that came every time she heard her own music .
16	Liking Julia as he did , admiring her stringent intelligence , her honesty , the unexpected humility that would never let her give advice unless she was asked for it , and her unfailing reasonableness , it had never occurred to him that he might be falling in love with her .
17	Indeed it had never occurred to him to sell bits of Hatherley to keep the paper going any more than he had considered using the profits of the paper , in the years when there were some , to pay for the substantial renovation the house had required .
18	Richard 's Johnson , obedient to the pressed button , came to life at once , and she saw that it had never occurred to him that it might n't .
19	Disappointed that there were no lights showing on Grace — it had never occurred to him that Nenna would not be there tonight — he was turning to walk along the Embankment to Lord Jim when he caught sight of a stranger on Maurice .
20	It had never occurred to him that his daughter might be proud of him .
21	In my analysis of the social and intellectual divisions at the party , it had never occurred to me to question where I stood myself .
22	‘ Yes , ’ I said , for it had never occurred to me not to .
23	It had never occurred to me that so many people would be interested in me and Dawn .
24	It had never occurred to me .
25	Syl was more of my mother 's generation than my own but it had never occurred to me before that he and she and Lili must all have been young at the same time .
26	‘ It had never occurred to me .
27	It had never occurred to me that you 'd object .
28	It had never occurred to me how smelly the Bath Assembly Rooms probably were , for instance .
29	Loved by Fenna and by Rachel it had never occurred to her to consider herself unlovable , but now she needed a counter-weight in the real world , and her mother would never be that for her .
30	He rolled his eyes and tugged at his collar and blew on his finger-nails ; and then Erika felt a sensation she had never known before ; one that in all her life of order , regimentation , structures , and of love and caring , too , it had never occurred to her that she might have .