Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] it had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was only a bit of spare paper left and some of it had got streaks of cheese-grease on , so I went over to the newsagent 's stall and bought an exercise book for 35p . |
| 2 | Some of it had come quickly ; Eliot knew the verse was right , and left it alone . |
| 3 | Much of it had assumed the two women were guilty . |
| 4 | It would be sensible to cut off most of her hair , but so much of it had grown when her parents were alive that it seemed somehow unfaithful to their memory to scissor it all away . |
| 5 | Much of it had disappeared during the redevelopment programmes after 1945 . |
| 6 | She told me she did n't eat lunch any more as it had become a bourgeois meal , but I could call in for a cup of de-caff and con her into whatever it was I wanted . |
| 7 | In the shared community of sacrifice the party had undoubtedly widened its community of interest with the British people , and was able to speak for all of the people in 1917–18 as it had spoken for only an embattled half in 1913 . |
| 8 | Overwhelmingly , she did n't want to believe any of it had happened ; her instinct was to block it out of her mind , to pretend she 'd never seen Adam and Jake , much less a host of silver-helmed spear men … |
| 9 | The great clothing factory that took up most of it had shut down its operations more than four hours back and only a handful of Security guards and maintenance engineers were to be found down here now . |
| 10 | Most of it had passed over Vologsky 's head . |