Example sentences of "it had [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had rained overnight but now the sun was breaking through and the scene had a certain gaiety . |
| 2 | It had travelled well and the colour emphasised her astonishing fairness . |
| 3 | On Jan. 29 Iraq informed the UN that it had destroyed more than 181,000 bombs , missiles and other explosives used by the allies against it during the Gulf war . |
| 4 | The afternoon and evening seemed to pass with agonizing slowness , yet , when the time came for Maurice 's departure , it felt to Charlotte as if it had crept up and taken them by surprise . |
| 5 | Nevertheless she 'd put it round her neck and there it had stayed ever since while she 'd tried with scant success to forget the brief period of ecstasy she 'd shared with the man whose gift it had been . |
| 6 | By the end of the third day his delirium had diminished , by the fifth day it had gone entirely and the redness and swelling of his face had also begun to disappear . |
| 7 | Andreeva 's letter had echoed such sentiments : indeed it had gone further and was completely incompatible with the principles of restructuring . |
| 8 | It had invested more than £30 million into the refurbishment of the Grade-I-listed Albert Docks . |
| 9 | It had killed more than one of Delaney 's friends , in a smoke and gas-filled embassy room ; and a night time brush in the Falklands — a tragic clash of SAS and SBS . |
| 10 | There had been a thunderstorm the night before but it had swept over and the lake was calm . |
| 11 | It had done better than the 5.30 Sunday Classic Serial and had proved an effective challenge to ITV 's Saturday afternoon serial , The Buccaneers . |
| 12 | Although Chancellor Kohl later agreed to an apparent compromise it was clear even then — how much more so now — that West Germany had killed the programme , and it had done so because it sensed far better than any of its Nato partners how completely President Gorbachev had changed the situation in Europe . |
| 13 | Once Baldwin 's decision was made , the right-wing plot collapsed as suddenly as it had grown up and , as always after prolonged but successful mental strain , he felt free . |
| 14 | He said it had petered out because Eliot did not want him to go any further and did not have a plan to use the information already gathered . |
| 15 | It had sounded almost as though the tunnel itself were enjoying some deeper , darker joke whose significance not even his father had fully understood . |
| 16 | It had fallen down when she had pushed the door open . |
| 17 | Long , unkempt hair , several missing teeth , and a nose that looked as if it had met more than one fist in its owner 's lifetime did nothing for his general appearance . |
| 18 | The bank revealed in September 1992 that it had lost more than twice its capital on behalf of a single client because of two foreign exchange dealers in the London branch who acted like ‘ inexperienced gamblers at the roulette table' , according to chairman Sir Charles Fraser . |
| 19 | The proposed closure has been confirmed twenty four hours after British Coal announced the pit was to go into the review procedure and it was revealed that it had lost more than six million pounds in the last six months . |
| 20 | It had hardened slightly and she moistened it with icy water , kneading it until it shed a film of white liquid . |
| 21 | Sokolov 's idea was good , but it had to wait more than 20 years before the technology to implement it was invented . |
| 22 | It had come out and I 'd said it 's what I felt at the minute . |
| 23 | Well , it had come about while he 'd been receiving the wet canvas treatment . |
| 24 | I thought it odd when you wrote and asked her how it had come about an' you got no answer . |
| 25 | Though Glasgow Polytechnic required the support of the safety net , its vice-principal , John Phillips , argued that it had competed well when with its Queen 's College partner and emerged as one of Scotland 's leading three or four universities . |
| 26 | But really it had got there but again But what I 'm saying is , that service of carriage forward we were making almost as much money on the kit coming back cos we could have charged another |
| 27 | This section is for permanent residents ; I brought you here first because if it had got out that you had been here and had n't seen this lot my life would n't have been worth living . |
| 28 | He worried about that , but even if it had succeeded simply because it was just another of the ridiculous and unbelievable antics in a ‘ Carry On ’ film , succeed it did . |
| 29 | It was just a reflex — I knew it had to come off and I did n't want them all fussing about it . |
| 30 | It had released more than 700 acres of land for development , which amounted to about 30 per cent of the total of derelict land within its designated boundaries ( National Audit Office , 1988b ) . |