Example sentences of "[adv] it had a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously it had a lot of film and limited time to show the mighty effort of the physicists of 13 countries in overcoming the obstacles to establish the complex , gargantuan apparatus for the experiment . |
| 2 | er they also brought out some a good range of lighting fittings er , which you still see about again used well I , I remember putting one , you saying about putting lights at different levels , erm a staircase which was in a new house which was architect design and built and erm , the staircase was er more or less centrally in the house rather than be stuck against one wall and so it had a well and down the centre of the well we strung one of these lights with er five different glasses suspended on black flex five black flexes and erm these were shades made of heavy glass er the glass was n't painted it was coloured all the way through , er and erm they were called er Chelsea , Chelsea glasswork and erm these each had a lamp inside them well er about three inch diameter cylinders actually about eight inches long and they were hung at different heights er so that the lip behind the staircase and also of course there 's a staircase being where it was , it was in the centre of er , a , quite a large hallway for modern stand for modern standards and erm it of course was a feature of the hall as well . |
| 3 | and you know it had broke off , so it had a load of spokes on and just went straight through him . |
| 4 | A short time later it had a change of heart , however , and indicted the publisher-cum-bookseller Edmund Curll for selling Venus in the Cloister , or the Nun in her Smock which was a spicy tale of lesbian nuns , first published in France in 1682 . |
| 5 | And now it had a title : ‘ Varvara ’ . |
| 6 | At least it had a church there before they built one in Anani . |
| 7 | Its nature remained unknown , but now at least it had a name . |
| 8 | The porch was only a tiny little thing but at least it had a roof and the floor was clear of rubbish . |
| 9 | It was not particularly large or splendid , and yet it had a warmth and charm and dignity about it that appealed to Charity immediately . |
| 10 | Yet it had a castle , was the county town , and in due course would become another beneficiary of Archdeacon Johnson 's munificence . |
| 11 | In Liverpool , where it had a branch , it was condemned as an organisation " whose administration is in the hands of boarding masters and which fails to inspire the respect of the labouring community " . |
| 12 | In the classical theory of gravity , which is based on real space-time , there are only two possible ways the universe can behave : either it has existed for an infinite time , or else it had a beginning at a singularity at some finite time in the past . |
| 13 | Certainly it had a freshness and credibility about it which was in stark contrast to some of the other end-of-the year events which , however exciting or impressive some individual performances and achievements may have been , still involved direct or incidental features which do little for the public perception of the sport . |