Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Old Rectory was only a larger , less pretentious version of Sunnybank — ridiculously named since it had stood on level ground and no sun ever seemed to penetrate its windows . |
| 2 | Being of only flimsy material and fitting tightly round Angela 's body , it had burst in two places when she fell , and when Mummy tried to pull it off , it tore again . |
| 3 | The twin caricatures of the King hoarding the nation 's wealth and the Prince dissipating it had appeared in other Gillray etchings , but nowhere with greater effect than in these two productions of July 1792 . |
| 4 | By 1789 it had assumed in most respects its nineteenth-century form . |
| 5 | The boy said it had began with affectionate cuddling but escalated into sexual acts . |
| 6 | It would be a much lesser work if it had swerved towards either extreme . |
| 7 | The pastorate had passed first to his brother ; on his death it had reverted to one of the famous preacher 's twin sons . |
| 8 | They were alone with the silently hurtling river and the great , gross wound it had made in this bank , curls of dark-red soil peeled back and rolling downhill , and a tangle of uprooted broom bushes . |
| 9 | The moon squatted above the mountains hugely , as if it had descended in majestic importance to pay a visit to this district , these mountains , this town only . |
| 10 | It was achieved in a mood of almost stunned boredom amongst English opinion , confident that the dismantling of the United Kingdom as it had endured since 1707 or 1536 would not in fact take place . |
| 11 | The report noted that advocates of re-introduction did not wish simply to limit the penalty to the same offences as those to which it had applied between 1861 and 1948 . |
| 12 | A year later it had jumped to 149,000 and looks set to rise again this year . |
| 13 | The latter was applying a social policy on which reasonable men could differ ; it had decided against differential rating and this was not a decision so unreasonable that no reasonable corporation could come to it . |
| 14 | Mr Shigeru Oda , the International Court of Justice 's Japanese vice-president , said it had decided by 11 votes to five that it was not competent to issue an injunction to protect Libya from British and American measures . |
| 15 | The Committee made no reference to complaints from Members , although the IBA survey showed that the percentage of MPs who found the Chamber too hot rose from 9 before the experiment to 36 after it had run for four months . |
| 16 | Certainly it would not have been a viable proposition if it had run into serious trouble within a year or so of its launch . |
| 17 | Whereas previously it had sanctioned minimal provision for all paupers , since the 1870s it had insisted upon strict application of the principles of 1834 in the selection of paupers , and restriction of their numbers wherever possible , while at the same time insisting on relief ‘ adequate to meet need ’ in all cases . |
| 18 | It must have been a popular book as it had gone to five editions by 1656 , and twenty-four editions by 1744 . |
| 19 | If they leave wishing it had gone on longer , you 've succeeded . |
| 20 | I mean , the light coming from them would be bent — as if it had gone through crinkly glass — like you get in bathroom windows . |
| 21 | It had gone through all its stages . |
| 22 | A former Secretary of State for Energy , the right hon. Member for Worcester ( Mr. Walker ) , on being asked about a change in the hours of work legislation by the Energy Select Committee in 1986 , said that ’ if it had gone through all its processes . |
| 23 | Er I 'm afraid a lot of it had gone by that time . |
| 24 | Since we 'd sat down it had gone from bright and shining to slaty grey and gusty , like a set for Wuthering Heights . |
| 25 | By last year it had risen to one pound sixty nine . |
| 26 | In the mid-eighteenth century the expected age of death for a woman was 35 ; by the 1970s it had risen to 80 . |
| 27 | By June unemployment in western Germany had fallen to 5.3 per cent or 593,000 ( the lowest figure for over 10 years ) , but in eastern Germany it had risen to 9.5 per cent ( 842,504 ) . |
| 28 | Average life expectancy was only 43 years in 1880 ; it had risen to 62 years in 1939 , and by the 1960s it was over 70 . |
| 29 | Even during the recession years of the early 1980s , the rate of net outward migration from Greater London to the rest of the South East never fell below 40 000 a year and with the subsequent economic recovery it had risen to 65 000 by 1986–87 ( Champion and Congdon , 1988 ) . |
| 30 | In 1978 it had risen to 31 months , from which it has now declined a little , to 27 months in 1986 ( see Werner 1988 ) . |