Example sentences of "[vb past] it have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief of the Near East Division had sat him down one day to try to teach him about Iran , but he doubted it had gone in . |
| 2 | It was discarded when shelving had to be cleared away from a wall on which a mural had been discovered after being painted over in the Stalinist era when the artist who created it had fallen out of favour . |
| 3 | I bit the shell of one and gave the kernel to her , and then bit another and pretended it had broken one of my teeth and I was in too much pain . ’ |
| 4 | entirely as as you mentioned it 's regarded as earned income . |
| 5 | After introducing it to an 18″ x 12″ aquarium I soon found it had re-arranged the substrate to form a small barricade at the front of the tank . |
| 6 | There was another advantage late on a lunch-time in that there were always a few city slickers who had ventured north by north-west ( of the Barbican ) to try the Hoskin 's or the Holden 's bitter and found it had got the better of them , so needed a taxi back to civilization . |
| 7 | Driving the Felder , I looked back towards the ranch and found it had disappeared . |
| 8 | In that first parliament of his , immediately after his coronation , he had refrained from asking for money , had even prided himself on his princely forbearance , and believed it had won him friends and trust . |
| 9 | Although he agreed that the legend was a piece of fiction , he believed it to have originated with someone unacquainted not only with the real history of the abbey but also with history in general , probably a professional itinerant storyteller in the middle to late sixteenth century . |
| 10 | But when the morning came it had seemed disgraceful to pretend illness and let everybody down . |
| 11 | Mr Clarke said he assumed it had done a U-turn across the central reservation . |
| 12 | He admitted fondling his ex-girlfriend 's daughter , but Social services assumed it had accurred 5 years before and his own children were n't in danger . |
| 13 | A plaque beside the empty reflecting pool and its silent fountains explained that the water system which filled it had become ‘ obsolete ’ in the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | However , when I stripped the pump off the block , cleaned it and left it on the workbench , I noticed it had leaked a small amount of oil from a 1.5mm hole located near the back underside of the pump . |
| 15 | It was a guess , though scarcely a wild one , and Cunningham 's reaction confirmed it had hit the mark . |
| 16 | A spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed it had decided against referring the sentence to the Attorney General . |
| 17 | A spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed it had decided against referring the sentence to the Attorney General . |
| 18 | At one time Dalgety was up 16p as Elf Aquitaine , the French oil group , confirmed it had formed a joint company with Australian Robert Holmes a Court to hold a 5.5 per cent stake in the Dalgety agricultural and food group . |
| 19 | In a separate development , British Aerospace confirmed it had raised its stake in Ferranti to 1.7 per cent through the purchase of 5.72 million shares . |
| 20 | Yesterday the International Squash Players Association confirmed it had received the $15,000 ( £9,400 ) withheld after Jansher 's walkout from the World Open 's official dinner . |
| 21 | Quite neglected now , the small church that guarded it has crumbled into ruin . |
| 22 | Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries was strongly in demand after results today showed it had made record half-year profits . |
| 23 | Property Management , of Darlington , claimed it had served a notice to quit on Finnegan last September . |
| 24 | A FRESH row brewed last night over the contentious Channel Tunnel rail link through the south-east of England after the Labour Party claimed it had obtained full details of the route . |
| 25 | Beecham claimed it had lost $24 million because of ‘ significant errors ’ in an over-optimistic YCS forecast , based on a Laboratory Test Market study , of the prospects for Delicare Cold Water Wash . |
| 26 | The Nuneaton and Bedworth Council claimed it had received letters of protest from residents opposed to a trial scheme to allow fishing on three lakes in the borough . |
| 27 | He was without a car for two days and claimed it had cost him at least £300 in business . |
| 28 | But they claimed it had halted near by . ’ |
| 29 | Last week Morocco claimed it had killed or wounded 80 Polisario guerrillas and had lost 14 soldiers , including a colonel , when Polisario attacked its defences near the Mauritanian border . |
| 30 | Last year the ministry claimed it had made progress , only to find it had to revise its figures to reveal no progress had been made for five years . |