Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advice it received from the firm was to bring its loans up to date , in particular the $18m credit line it had given to UMF which , PW noted , had consistently been trading at a loss . |
| 2 | But it had given Hope an opening . |
| 3 | The result forced the government to freeze the sale of 51 per cent of the shares of the state telecommunications body Antel , which it had intended to offer to a foreign company for a sum of around US$500,000,000 . |
| 4 | In the euphoria of getting through the first night , Charles had forgotten how much concentration that effort had taken , and found it difficult to get back the rhythm of his lines with the A.S.M. The sleepless night and the excesses which it had incorporated did not help , either . |
| 5 | And it had made unhitching the Lorrimores ' car a comparatively quick and easy job . |
| 6 | Chairperson Pennie Pennie asked what difference it had made having anti-racist , equal opportunity policies in SSDs . |
| 7 | System Soft , which also has exclusive agreement to distribute products from Adobe Systems Inc , Macromind/Paracomp Inc and Symantec Corp , ran into trouble last year at the start of the Japanese economy downturn , reportedly because of the interest burden on borrowings it had made to construct its own building , and in May 1992 another major software distributor , Katena Ltd , came to the rescue and bought a 50% stake . |
| 8 | It had planned to shed 1,200 this year , but to avoid further ‘ bit by bit ’ cutbacks the company decided to bring forward further redundancy programmes and two weeks ago , 1,400 staff left on a single day and the company will be down to 12,000 by mid-year . |
| 9 | IBM UK Ltd expects to have shed a further 2,000 jobs by July after accelerating its cost-cutting programme : it had planned to shed 1,200 this year , but to avoid further ‘ bit by bit ’ cutbacks the company decided to bring forward further redundancy programmes and two weeks ago , 1,400 staff left on a single day and the company will be down to 12,000 by mid-year . |
| 10 | The company says it had planned to offer the capability in the middle of next year , but now says that users will be able to cluster OpenVMS VAX systems with OpenVMS AXP systems this spring . |
| 11 | The bear was in front of her now , dropping down into that squatting or begging position it had adopted to torment the other woman passenger . |
| 12 | But if such a divinity was near , he prayed that the songs had it wrong , because sweet as tales of Nativity were , time was short , and if hope was only a babe tonight then by the time it had reached redeeming age the worlds it had come to save would be dead . |
| 13 | In its own way the co-operative was quite a success story if only for the fact that it had kept going more or less continuously for almost five years . |
| 14 | " I missed seeing you , " it had kept saying , just like it was saying now . |
| 15 | A spokeswoman for the office said it had decided to hold a ‘ value for money ’ inquiry on the lines of recent inquiries into the Royal Ordnance and Rover sales . |
| 16 | Finland on May 6 announced that it had decided to purchase 64 US F/A-18 Hornet interceptor aircraft in preference to ex-Soviet , French or Swedish models to modernize its air force by the end of the century . |
| 17 | The postal workers ' trade union publicly announced that it had decided to forbid its members to handle a particular class of mail and that it was aware that the action would be a breach of the law . |
| 18 | The dissident AVC wing , although it had decided to abandon the class struggle , still opposed the AVC majority who had accepted the government 's offer of amnesty and had begun demobilization in February 1989 to join mainstream politics . |
| 19 | A second round of talks between the government and the ANC in early August was followed by the ANC 's announcement that it had decided to suspend its armed struggle ; all activities by the ANC 's military wing , Umkhonto we Sizwe , would cease . |
| 20 | Now , centuries later , it had decided to invite a number of experts to advise it on cosmology . |
| 21 | The government announced on Aug. 1 that it had decided to bring the penal code in line with Islamic law by making the death penalty mandatory for anyone convicted of defaming the Prophet Mohammed . |
| 22 | Turkey announced on Dec. 19 that it had decided to raise the representation in Ankara of both Israel and Palestine to embassy status . |
| 23 | In March 1982 the Board informed the Bunchs ' company that following a review of its sales and marketing strategy it had decided to limit the sale of bulk butter to four other distributors in England and Wales and that , in future , the company would have to purchase its bulk butter from other distributors . |
| 24 | Following a speech on Oct. 28 , 1989 , when Sassou-Nguesso announced wide-ranging economic reforms and the encouragement of private enterprise , the government announced on Jan. 9 , 1990 , that it had decided to end the state monopoly on the distribution of petroleum products , with the distribution and marketing of natural gas , kerosene , fuel and other lubricants to be shared with the UK/Dutch Shell , British Petroleum and United States companies Amoco-Conoco and Chevron . |
| 25 | In a statement the RJO said that it had decided to free Mann because of the " immense efforts " of the UN Secretary-General , and that his release would " be the prelude for the next stage to speed up the closure of the file of the prisoners and the hostages " . |
| 26 | The Organization of American States ( OAS ) announced in Washington on Aug. 28 that it had decided to send observers to oversee the elections for a Democratic Constituent Congress ( CCD ) scheduled to be held on Nov. 22 . |
| 27 | Sally-Anne reached the gates and walked up to the rectory , an eighteenth-century building which had once been beautiful , but like the area around it had gone to seed badly , although Dr Neil had told her that it was elegant , if shabby inside . |
| 28 | One day , after he had been having lessons for some time , his father was called away by the boss : there was a horse in the ditch : it had gone to sleep on the edge and had rolled upside down into the ditch and could n't get out . |
| 29 | More than that , it had served to prove yet again that Sweetheart was quite justified in calling him worthless and good-for-nothing . |
| 30 | Rather it had served to convince him that the choice now open to mankind was between the principle of non-violence and racial suicide . |