Example sentences of "[pron] and it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | He passed the day skulking around cafes , and when Georges met him by chance later on he confessed he 'd been beaten up in his flat because he 'd agreed to do a favour for someone and it had gone wrong . |
| 2 | It was a sound they knew , one often heard at night from within the dark walls of the cottages in the village , but out here it was around them and with them and part of them and it had an eerie quality as though inside the vixen some diabolic spirit was entrapped , a demon screeching its despair . |
| 3 | Without doubt the train was following them and it had passed over several fog detonators without setting them off . |
| 4 | It was as if she had said something and it had caused a click in his mind that brought down the shutters to keep her out . |
| 5 | and we came to look at this one and it had got an inner hall and in the position was |
| 6 | All the day before , she had waited for half an hour to go off walking by herself and it had never come . |
| 7 | She had finally walked out on him and it had only been the intervention of Philpott that had brought them back together again . |
| 8 | At the end of the lawn there was a sundial ; they looked at it and it had got the time right . |
| 9 | That was the Catholic name for it and it had always seemed very appropriate to Preston , conjuring up visions of an unctuous priest dripping oil and glib assurance . |
| 10 | He had rather enjoyed it and it had helped him to keep his mind off what might be happening to Snodgrass and to Floy and Fenella . |
| 11 | For instance , Piers 's unforthcoming remark about avoiding love because he had once tasted it and it had left a bitter after-effect . |
| 12 | She 'd even been on the local TV news for it and it had done wonders for business . |
| 13 | ‘ Too often chief executives fail to recognise that they have embarked on a major project until they are well into it and it had run into difficulties . ’ |
| 14 | Have been too close to it and it had , and the vents at the back had got churned up with dust at one time , I keep dusting it now . |
| 15 | and then getting all the the chassis numbers and that and welding them on to these stolen cars and Because what , you know , er Siobhan 's dad had a , bought a Montego and I do n't know how it came about but they discovered that erm it had a diff I mean it 's had a Maestro engine in it and it had this that and the other . |
| 16 | And we went to the one next to it and it had all naked women in it . |
| 17 | Before a prayer had formed itself , a young brown hand covered mine and I looked round to see the turbaned head of the Youngest Son , his face half covered by his head-scarf , his eyes laughing , his whole figure straight against the storm as though he and it had made some truce . |