Example sentences of "[noun sg] it had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frank Spencer had endeared himself to so many people that Crawford 's wish to leave the character behind was tempered by the pleasure it had clearly brought . |
| 2 | Every last bit of unkempt hedge in our front garden was taking the same attitude it had always taken . |
| 3 | Indeed , in London the Alliance made large gains in Tower Hamlets , but in neighbouring Islington it held only one seat in a council it had previously controlled . |
| 4 | Until the Gulf war it had never had to contemplate a high-tech non-nuclear war . |
| 5 | It was not bonded to those below it by the neat filling of soil and small growth that bound all the rest , though it lay aligned precisely to fill the place it had surely filled for a year or more . |
| 6 | Thirty minutes since Dominic had gone inside that room … time enough for a readjustment of ideas , time enough to let resentment flood back to the place it had just left . |
| 7 | After this decade of maximum development the stream of migrants dwindled until by the end of the Victorian era it had more-or-less dried up . |
| 8 | It did n't last ; Spandau and Duran , along with Culture Club and Wham ! , became future corporate Live Aid company rockers , 1980s pop lost its ABC-style irony and became the commodity it had always mocked . |
| 9 | Wise Speke 's performance showed that although stockbroking commissions had increased by £400,000 in the period it had only managed to break even . |
| 10 | As well as cutting client prices to $250 and server prices to $1,300 , Univel has bucked up its Personal server Edition with the Windows Merge facility it had previously listed as a $400 add-on product so it can run DOS and Windows 3.0/3.1 applications under Unix . |
| 11 | It was two months later that she told me of her problem and the discomfort it had previously caused her . |
| 12 | In the last week it had positively snowed letters and business . |
| 13 | But this morning it had all gone . |
| 14 | Good food , plenty of sleep , and the knowledge that she was really wanted and loved gave her face a serenity it had never had before . |
| 15 | Such was the set up of the Drama Department in the Sixties that a staff Production Assistant could find himself being allowed a turn in the Director 's chair for one show , giving directions to a fellow PA colleague , and then , a few months later be taking directions from perhaps that same PA , whose turn it had now become to be elevated to the directing heights . |
| 16 | Its not-very-complicated mind was trying to come to terms with the fact that the shape of the nomes — two arms , two legs , a head at the top — was a shape it associated with humans and had learnt to avoid , but the size was the size it had always thought of as a mouthful . |
| 17 | Why , then , is Vietnam eager to leave , ahead of its previous promised date of December 1990 and without the political settlement it had long demanded ? |
| 18 | Once they had pretended they were childhood sweethearts , played at falling in love , but of course it had all ended in laughter . |
| 19 | It had been my cherished wish , if our circumstances had allowed , to create a ‘ Balancing Fund ’ so that in future years the Institute would not be wholly dependent on forecasting expenditure on the basis of income it had yet to receive . |
| 20 | She supposed she was perfectly entitled to do that , since she had been his secretary for more than ten years , but for some odd reason it had still made her nerve-ends prickle antagonistically when Eleanor had said his name . |
| 21 | For some idiotic reason it had never crossed her mind that she might be doing something illegal . |
| 22 | At St Bartholomew 's Hospital , 75 beds have closed ; Parkside Health Authority has closed a 20-bed ward it had just re-opened to try to tackle waiting lists ; and proposals to close some beds at the London Hospital are expected to go next week to Tower Hamlets Health Authority , which faces a £1.3m overspend . |
| 23 | Then , this autumn it had all become much worse . |
| 24 | ‘ The meeting of two causal series , the real series of the war and the imaginary series of Bolshevik politics , lent Bolshevism the reality it had always lacked . ’ |
| 25 | He argued that though historical materialism had satisfactorily explained the forms and conditions of human reality it had never established theoretically the validity of its own existence , never shown how it constituted not just the substance of reality but its logical form as well . |
| 26 | The board decided to embark on aggressive overseas expansion and committed the bank to the biggest gamble it had ever taken , one that would eventually sink it . |
| 27 | The board decided to embark on aggressive overseas expansion and committed the bank to the biggest gamble it had ever taken , one that would eventually sink it |
| 28 | Christ 's Hospital had been founded in 1553 for the ‘ orphaned , aged and sick poor ’ , but by the time of Coleridge 's arrival it had long outgrown its origins to become the foremost of England 's charity schools . |
| 29 | While the Midland had expected that its reserves would be lower than either Barclays or NatWest , both newly merged , it was horrified to learn that the true capital of Lloyds , a bank it had always looked down on , was £266m , £73m higher than its own . |
| 30 | Time , now Henry was forty , did not proceed in the way it had previously done . |