Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had stood here for 300 years — a revolutionary building when it was built … until it was destroyed in a fire in 1952 . |
| 2 | It had rained heavily during the night — a sudden downpour which had filled the gutters and drains which supplied the city 's water catchment system — so that when dawn broke it could be seen that many of the drapes and festoons over archways and down the faces of stands and platforms had been torn from the frames by the weight of the water which had soaked them . |
| 3 | I was convinced that something had happened in our absence ; something had indeed happened — it had rained hard during the night and early morning — which was strange for that summer when we had a period of almost drought conditions . |
| 4 | But they claimed it had halted near by . ’ |
| 5 | I said what would I like to say , disgusted with the way he 's been treated , I said my father left intensive care at one o'clock on Friday , we was told he was gon na leave there at four o'clock to go home and have a meal and be with him when he went on the ward , when we came back , he 'd been moved , he 'd gone on the ward , he was plonked in the chair , his catheter was on his lap , it had leaked all over him , his dressing was hanging off and seeping with green stuff the wound on his leg was run all down over his foot , he 'd got no cover on his seat so he could see , Dave said they looked and they did n't look very bloody nice |
| 6 | When I joined they had just published The Thorn Birds so Futura was on a real high — it had expanded considerably over the previous 18 months . ’ |
| 7 | It had surged forth in that dreadful shop in London , when he had stood transfixed — not , as Helen thought , by bunches of guinea-fowl but by the bare arms of the butcher 's lad adroitly trimming a carcass on a block beneath . |
| 8 | Climbing up to the right and beyond Cow Dub , I followed the beck , dry where it had drained away through the limestone but flowing where the bands of sandstone outcropped , until on the open fell the limestone gave way to glacial moraine and the beck gurgled noisily back down towards Cow Dub . |
| 9 | It had hung limply in the cupboard for nearly three months . |
| 10 | Although throughout the preceding century case law decisions had narrowed its scope and denied its extension to any trade not in being at the time of its passage , it had remained nevertheless of great importance as a legitimating symbol of skilled labour 's " rights " . |
| 11 | The lira ended the day up around 965 to the German mark from the 976 opening and well clear of the record 980 lows it had touched earlier in the week when the vote was announced . |
| 12 | She 'd collected her wedding dress , and it was n't what she wanted ; it did n't fit properly , and the woman in Drogheda who had made it had gone away on holiday , and her assistant did n't know anything about it , and was n't a seamstress , so now what the hell was she supposed to do ? |
| 13 | It looked as if it had gone straight over the side and into the valley . |
| 14 | Paul had laughingly explained that they had taken one small pull only at the bamboo rod , purely out of courtesy to the Moi chief , but it had gone straight to Joseph 's head . |
| 15 | Saying that it had gone straight to court , it was in court , you know , |
| 16 | ‘ The police doctor said it had gone straight through my cheek . ’ |
| 17 | Then suddenly , right out of the blue , it had gone straight down the drain . |
| 18 | It had gone flat as flint . |
| 19 | By the 1987 parliament it had risen only to thirty-seven per cent . |
| 20 | One head of department thought that it had increased marginally as a result of being more involved in decision-making , but this was less important to him than teaching . |
| 21 | By 1980 it had increased slightly to about 7,000 , the victim of its reputation for boucherie calves . |
| 22 | Like its larger industrial brothers , Petrograd and Moscow , it had declined fast between 1917 and 1920 ( the number of inhabitants fell by a quarter ) . |
| 23 | Its population had risen slowly from 1,467 in 1801 to 2,240 in 1851 , but then it had declined steadily to 1,932 in 1891 . |
| 24 | It had declined substantially by the late thirties but was still a thriving place compared with the Baldersdale of today . |
| 25 | The General Secretary of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen wrote to the Home Secretary arguing that the growth of fascism created a threat to organized labour since it had led elsewhere to the suppression and murder of trade unionists . |
| 26 | A proposal supported by Chile and Brazil for the bank to make loans directly to private-sector companies , as it had done frequently in its early years , was discussed . |
| 27 | After the Baltic Exchange explosion , the Government agreed to move in as it had done before in Northern Ireland , to act as ‘ insurer of last resort ’ , and the necessary legislation is in the Reinsurance ( Acts of Terrorism ) Bill published on 5 May this year . |
| 28 | Most countries tax multinationals on an ‘ arm 's length ’ basis , calculating the profits that the firm earned within their borders as if it had done so through a stand-alone business , operating at arm 's length from the parent firm . |
| 29 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 30 | After an hour of this , the pike left it alone and when it had done so for the fifth time , El-ahrairah swam across himself and went home . |