Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It had hung limply in the cupboard for nearly three months . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It did n't feel as cold as it had done earlier in the day . |
| 7 | Like George Habash 's PFLP , from which it had broken away in a brutal revolutionary schism , it was opposed to Arafat 's gun-and-olive-branch approach towards Israel and therefore outside Arafat 's control . |
| 8 | Amis in a radio interview has spoken of his war-time friendship at Oxford with Philip Larkin as if it had succeeded only in inverted terms . |
| 9 | In the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election , in which there were on average almost seven candidates for each of the 450 seats , Rukh won the majority of the Kiev seats , but its leaders claimed that it had performed badly in most rural areas because of obstruction and electoral malpractice by officials . |
| 10 | For her it had worked well in some ways but not in others , which had mainly to do with the relationship between her and her foster mother after her son Sean was born . |
| 11 | And getting rid of an unwelcome ruler would not actually be novel ; it had happened twice in the fifteenth century , to James I and James III . |