Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , after a couple more weeks , that strange phenomenon appeared , just as it had appeared after his first two weeks of basic training with the Royal Army Service Corp . |
| 2 | He 'd wondered countless times , ever since that first call it had played on his mind . |
| 3 | If it had gone with his image , Nails thought he could have been quite interested . |
| 4 | His money had not brought happiness and perhaps it had contributed to his strange sense of values . |
| 5 | The church actually lost yet more ground under Edward II than it had done under his father . |
| 6 | It had seeped through his clothes and spread out in a half-circle , staining the grass and soaking into the sandy soil . |
| 7 | The ‘ development risks ’ defence is available where the defendant shows ‘ that the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control . ’ |
| 8 | ( c ) Where the defendant can show that : " the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control " ( s. 4(1) ( e ) ) . |
| 9 | Section 4(1) ( e ) states as follows : ( e ) that the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control … |
| 10 | Belov had studied her and contrived her release … and for him it had ended with his body face-down in the icy waters of the Neva . |
| 11 | Bill would roll his head up from where it had fallen on his shoulder and open his eyes cautiously . |
| 12 | With a twitch of its jaws it had ripped into his hide leggings . |
| 13 | In 1798 the threat of military invasion from Napoleonic France had only just ebbed when the Bishop of Durham announced to a startled House of Lords that it had come to his attention that the only reason the enemy forces had backed away from military invasion was because they had hit on a more sinister method of bringing Britannia to heel . |
| 14 | Capron said it had come to his attention that I 'd been meeting you and that it had to stop . ’ |
| 15 | It obviously upset Charman and after the sacking he realised the strain it had put on his friendship with Gedge . |
| 16 | By further eroding the definition of spiritualia , the regalian exploitation of episcopal vacancies was now so extended that Edward claimed to fill livings — vicarages as well as rectories — emptied during an episcopal vacancy retrospectively , even if it had occurred during his father 's reign . |
| 17 | I asked Joe about the heart attack and the changes that it had brought to his life as he settled down for his six hours ' daily practice at the Manor Leisure Club in Yeadon , near Leeds-Bradford Airport . |
| 18 | On Aug. 19 Ramos gave permission for the body of Ferdinand Marcos to be flown from Hawaii ( where it had lain since his death in 1989 ) for private interment in his native province of Ilocos Norte in northern Luzon . |
| 19 | The mirror showed that his face was smeared with mud , and it had stuck in his beard also . |
| 20 | He began by telling her about his bid for G.W. Fashions and the antagonism it had sparked among his rivals . |
| 21 | It had sprung from his activities in the housing movement , but was run on straight commercial lines , providing an ‘ alternative ’ removals service and producing a nice sideline in salvaged Victorian fireplaces which were sold to the new rich . |
| 22 | No big deal , it had happened in his life before ; but suddenly he was intensely , intensely relieved that Wayne had stayed in the van and could n't see this . |