Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] what it had " in BNC.

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1	It was just that at the moment of climax when the escape had to be attempted or abandoned , it became if attempted something quite different from what it had been in the planning .
2	The occupational structure of the village was very different from what it had been just before the Civil War when the parish register entries had briefly given men 's occupations ; between 1636 and 1639 Thurmaston 's register noted 8 labourers , 5 shepherds , 3 husbandmen , 2 innkeepers , 2 masons , 2 male servants , a carpenter , a miller , 1 curate , a weaver , a tailor , a shearman , a spinner and a mole catcher .
3	At the second meeting of the judges , on Thursday , 21 st May , the atmosphere seems to have been very different to what it had been the previous week .
4	Mr Brunhead , who represented Thames Transit Limited stated that the City Council could just be proud of what it had done , for public transport , and he was aware that the city council was looking again at the balanced transport policy , and ways of making the city centre more viable for bus and for public transport .
5	By the late 1930s , the birth rate was about three-quarters of what it had been at the end of the First World War .
6	The Daurog seemed pleased by what it had tasted .
7	The frog was thick with what it had galloped through .
8	The level of truck loadings for 1922 was under one-third of what it had been in 1913 , although there was a vast improvement towards the end of the year .
9	Many of the villages which had been on the line of march were still depressed ; Hurstpierpoint was worth a third of what it had paid in the days of the Confessor .
10	Bristol was so satisfied by what it had achieved in Queen Square after 1701 — a series of dull brick houses in a style that can be charitably described as Quaker 's Baroque — that the city 's builders virtually ignored the Palladian classicism that was sweeping the rest of England .

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