Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | By lunchtime on the 12th of October 1993 it had rained so much that schools were closed . |
| 2 | It would not be the first time that it had done so . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We simply invited our readers to witness the process whereby it had done so . |
| 6 | Thus it rejected Owen 's bid , revolutionary in concept but illusory in fact , to appropriate all industry into a nationwide industrial democracy : and , by that rejection , but quite unaware that it had done so , left unimpeded the second stage of the Industrial Revolution , the stage that guaranteed that it too would be irreversible , that the continuance of a phenomenal increase in the production of wealth could occur . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Aliens might have placed it in her , it might have burst out of her body rending her — it had done so . |
| 9 | that the outcry which followed Morgan was not because the House of Lords had changed the law but because the public mistakenly thought it had done so . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | All at once he pictured again the sun striking the glass and understood why it had done so . |
| 12 | Within moments it had done so . |
| 13 | If it had done so , and had included among such grounds the case where the company had been formed with the purpose of defrauding creditors … the Spanish court would have been entitled to give effect to it notwithstanding the terms of the Directive ( p 32 ) . |
| 14 | It had grown so wild and unruly that it threatened to smother all the flowers . |
| 15 | Funny , she thought ; in those brief seconds after she 'd fallen it had sounded so different , so full of warmth , so full of concern . |
| 16 | How pitiful , that it had fallen so low . |
| 17 | It had become so difficult that we needed to help each other make it ; everyone who made it to Australia would win a trophy . |
| 18 | He had enjoyed the performance but felt it had become so obviously a theatrical production that it was now a long way from what had taken place in the Middle Ages . |
| 19 | It had become so much a matter of routine that when she answered he came close to putting the phone down before he realized that all he 'd heard was , ‘ Hello . ’ |
| 20 | It had begun so well . |
| 21 | Its expressed view , that the Uprising was part of that violence which the United States now wished the PLO to bring to an end , indicated it wished to eliminate the source of the new political reality , against which it had laboured so long through its preference for negotiations through Jordan . |
| 22 | Apart from the dirt , it had got so thin . |
| 23 | There were holes in the elbows and I must admit it had got so tatty that it was held together with nappy pins . |
| 24 | Because it was an old house that they were renovating , and it had got so much rot in it and woodworm , and he said he said he said th there they were walking up one minute and the next minute the piano was just going down through the stairs . |
| 25 | It had meant so much to her and she longed for his compassion again , but it was too late now for him to be told about Angel . |
| 26 | If it were possible to unfold the entire long history of the world 's religions in such a manner that it could be scrutinised , assimilated and judged in a single all-embracing operation , the verdict would be that it had strayed so far from the basic human need , and so far from the intentions of those good and sincere people who have throughout that history struggled to maintain its integrity , that it might well be condemned outright as a story of failure unmatched by anything else that has ever happened on earth . |
| 27 | Asked why it had taken so long for Doris to get back in touch with this world , Mr Lacey explained that it was probably the exhaustion caused by her illness , the brain operation and unsuccessful medical treatment . |
| 28 | It had taken so long … it had taken two young ensigns , a native pensioner and a Eurasian clerk to lift him up to this platform , and now he would have to get himself down again ! |
| 29 | It had seemed so important to make a good impression , to show him that she had risen above the way of life in the alleys , but it was a selfish , uncaring side of her he had seen . |
| 30 | It had seemed so straightforward then . |