Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] it [adv] had " in BNC.

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1 A decision had to be made ; or maybe it already had been made by Copper , because if he had decided to lie down before I could get back to him his leg would have been broken irreparably .
2 No such co-operation was possible in the sphere of taxation , but then it never had been under the Tsars , so Bolshevik extortion seemed hardly more arbitrary than previous methods .
3 It made no sense to her , but then it never had .
4 ‘ Even while then it still had n't clicked in my brilliant brain why I was acting so , I put my foot down , and kept it there , and arrived here with about an hour to spare before your train was due in .
5 The second , however , seemed ideal , and was cheaper , though unfortunately it only had a small section of moat left , which had been suburbanised into a rock garden .
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