Example sentences of "[noun pl] it had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In previous relationships it had always been Lotta who had moved on to better things ; she 'd never been rejected before and she felt angry and humiliated , particularly as she saw her standard of living about to fall . ’ |
| 2 | For months it had apparently been common knowledge ; something to be tutted over and discussed in hushed tones that stopped abruptly whenever she entered the common-room . |
| 3 | Within two days it had all been mysteriously removed ! |
| 4 | In the old days it had all seemed worth it — she 'd enjoyed filling stockings and wading through a carpet of toys and dressing the tree and singing carols when they were little . |
| 5 | With the signing of the agreement it would appear Compaq has overcome the reservations it had about IXI Ltd 's X.desktop manager — included in Open Desktop — which Compaq steadfastly refused to accept as a part of ACE 's Open Desktop offering : it preferred instead HP 's Visual User Environment . |
| 6 | After all these years it had finally happened ! |
| 7 | And for a few years it had just about done so . |
| 8 | Birthday Offering ( 1956 ) Ashton 's third classical ballet Birthday Offering to music by Glazounov was a celebration of the twenty-fifth birthday of The Royal Ballet and of the seven ballerinas it had now fostered . |
| 9 | Better educated , brighter , and more articulate than many of the older men who had supported Paisley since the 1950s , Robinson gave the party managerial and organizational skills it had previously lacked . |
| 10 | Sheffield was a very different type of town , but like most other places that developed into great Victorian cities it had already had a long history as a market and craft centre . |
| 11 | Masklin wondered how many times it had industriously cleaned this corridor , while it waited for nomes to come back … . |
| 12 | Like the Gendarmerie , the Sûreté was a pan-Indochina service , owing loyalty to the state interests of France , not of the native sovereigns , of whose territories it had nevertheless a free run … |
| 13 | Unlike previous years , however , the significance of the Iowa contests was reduced by the fact that neither of Bush 's two challengers ( Buchanan and former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke ) contested the caucus , whilst amongst the Democrats it had long been accepted that the contest would be won by Tom Harkin , one of the state 's representatives in the Senate , and so there had been a minimal amount of campaigning . |