Example sentences of "it had [adv] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had immediately struck him , of course , that the latter , had they been aware of it , would have strongly resented the interference of spiritual sanitary workers . |
| 2 | But rather that the time and thought put into it had somehow polluted me . |
| 3 | It had however taken me 40 gallons to fly from Duxford down to Stansted and I felt that somehow I was on a loser here ! |
| 4 | He had completed a first draft by July 1941 , but he told Hayward that he was not pleased with the result because he was over-conscious of what he was attempting to do : " he was always aware of this problem in his work , and it had effectively led him to abandon much of the poetry he had been writing in his Harvard years . |
| 5 | In September 1991 it had effectively dissolved itself when new union structures were created after the failed coup [ see p. 38415 ] . |
| 6 | In its rapid advance up the right bank of the Meuse , it had increasingly exposed its flank to the French on the hills the other side of the river . |
| 7 | The car might belong to the estate or be bringing timber-buyers or tree-fellers to the woods , but it had nearly knocked her down , and she was determined to get its number . |
| 8 | After that it had largely exhausted its potential . |
| 9 | It had simply lost its way in terms of product innovation , the area in which Habitat had demonstrated itself to be supreme . |
| 10 | The truth shall set you free , but oh , the truth of her past had not done that — it had simply shown her what a selfish , unthinking thing she had been that first Terry Rourke , and then Havvie Blaine could have exploited her so . |
| 11 | ‘ Do you know , Benny , it had completely slipped my mind . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , that , ’ said William , as if it had completely slipped his mind and he 'd have been quite happy talking about Satan and Hell and related matters for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 13 | It was two months later that she told me of her problem and the discomfort it had previously caused her . |
| 14 | China was conspicuously omitted from this scheme since it had already rejected it . |
| 15 | Like the ACAS report , the Scarman report sank without a trace but it had already fulfilled its function that of sapping the strength and momentum of the struggle . |
| 16 | No it was n't quite as bad as that , Ray er what do you call it had already done it . |
| 17 | The arguments centred on scheduling , with Serbia and Montenegro insisting that referendums should take place in each republic at the same time and with the same questions , Croatia announcing that it had already scheduled its referendum for May 19 , Macedonia asking for a postponement of the deadline to mid-June , and Bosnia-Hercegovina suggesting that the referendum should take place in two stages . |
| 18 | After 1968 , genuine approval of his anti-Soviet stance gave a boost to the incipient cult and by 1974 it had already reached its high-point , from which it never subsided , but simply spread to a suffocating extent into all areas of public life . |
| 19 | Its contract expired earlier this month , but last year an independent consultancy recommended California replace its existing system , it had already purchased it outright from G Tec for sixty million dollars . |
| 20 | It had successfully conducted its official task of charting the South American coast , of assessing potential harbours , transport systems , and inland waterways around the world . |
| 21 | Something in my story or my way of telling it had evidently touched him . |
| 22 | It had temporarily slipped my mind , but someone did have a spare key some while ago . |
| 23 | The death of his beloved grandfather had brought him misery but , at the same time , it had also given him strength . |
| 24 | If her relationship with Tyler had brought her a deal of heartache , it had also brought her so much more . |
| 25 | It had probably killed her . |
| 26 | It had just crossed my mind that I had not had my boots off since the evening of the 4th June and it was now 8th June . |
| 27 | In either case , a court which revokes the order following a breach will be empowered to sentence the offender as if it had just convicted him of the original offence . |
| 28 | Probably , she concluded , it had just washed itself along on a tide of alcohol and that uneasy mixture of salaciousness and sanctimoniousness which characterises these melancholy occasions . |
| 29 | In accepting Murav'ev 's proposals the regime made plain that , although it had just committed itself firmly to the emancipation of the serfs ( in the Nazimov Rescript ) , it was not yet prepared to adopt the principle of decentralization or to move towards provincial self-government . |
| 30 | It had just taken him by surprise , her wanting to put flowers in an empty house . |