Example sentences of "[coord] it had [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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1 | He was drawing an interesting image from the mythology of another culture and it had seemed to him fresh and new . |
2 | At the beginning she had known clearly enough that he was an irrevocably solitary man , and it had seemed to her fortunate to live with him at all . |
3 | That had stopped the Ministry ‘ dead in its tracks ’ and it had come to the conclusion that if it denied premium to the rearer of suckled calves it would eventually be challenged by a hill farmer before the European Court . |
4 | But it had progressed to the stage where she could not make herself walk past a pigeon on the ground , but would cross the road in order to avoid it . |
5 | But it had come to nothing , and in the process he had recognised the truth behind his motives . |
6 | It was the First World War that finally killed off the " legion of Leagues " , but it had ceased to be a problem before 1914 . |
7 | But it had occurred to me that if there was ever any … well , I do n't know ; armed revolt , popular uprising … ’ |
8 | The the scheduler , Pauline I ca n't make her out , she seems to be fairly u straight , organized but it had got to the situation where I mean I did n't like it but it happened , we were supplying six months of product and then was supplying six months . |
9 | This fact was verified as being 16 by the road-sign in the village itself , but it had shrunk to 14 via an advertisement in your newspaper . |