Example sentences of "the [noun sg] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't leave this part of the world without relating a story about another , less grisly trophy , carried home from Sutherland ; and the link it had with a polluted , southern stream , the White Cart , which empties into the Clyde estuary . |
| 2 | The one who had accompanied him chasing the car simply glowered in the direction it had gone , while the other one , who had n't fired a shot , writhed by the roadside , trying to clutch a leg which trailed at an unnatural angle . |
| 3 | From the angle at which the bullet had penetrated the keg it had to have come from the direction of the shed . |
| 4 | Then , impossible though this seemed given the blow it had been struck , the form started to haul itself to its feet . |
| 5 | As well as a sideswipe at the DTI 's failure to spend all the money it had available for industrial-academic arrangements such as the Link scheme , the spokesmen promised various schemes to improve public understanding of science . |
| 6 | It has its new smell still — the perfect red plastic smell , the smell of writing numbers in arithmetic books ruled in squares ; the smell it had before it got mixed up in the dust and plasticine and tangled electric flex in the toy drawer . |
| 7 | The giant had jumped splat into the middle of the canal — and into the middle of the flock of ducks — and now stood there watching the chaos it had created . |
| 8 | It seemed impossible then that Italy could ever recover from the damage it had suffered . |
| 9 | Iraq did not manage to immobilize Iran 's oil-production apparatus on a scale similar to the damage it had itself sustained in 1980 . |
| 10 | He began by telling her about his bid for G.W. Fashions and the antagonism it had sparked among his rivals . |
| 11 | Quiss bellowed ; he turned the attendant upside down and plonked its head into the bucket it had been carrying . |
| 12 | The story it had to tell was interesting enough : childhood and adolescence in New Zealand , university life in Australia and a stint on the literary pages of the Sydney Morning Herald ; arrival in London in the late ‘ twenties , when the Katherine Mansfield boom was at its height and there was an unusual keenness to welcome literary talent from New Zealand ; London literary life in the ‘ thirties — and so on . |
| 13 | In the West it had been left to researchers outside of the mainstream AI community . |
| 14 | At this stage it began to make a noise , or , rather , Twoflower started to hear the noise it had been making all along . |
| 15 | The Confederation of British Industry said this was close to the Budget it had asked for , with increased export credits , the advance corporation tax ( ACT ) question addressed and smaller firms helped . |
| 16 | For studying the economy it matters little whether the population of England in the 1520s had recovered to the level it had reached before the Black Death . |
| 17 | For all the good it had done . |
| 18 | Charlotte 's response to her discovery had been so instinctive , and the action it had prompted her to take so urgent , that it was not until late afternoon , aboard a train drawing ever closer to Paris , that she began to consider the difficulties and possible consequences of the task she had set herself . |
| 19 | It ensured there was no turning back , no switching to alternative paths , no way of avoiding the future it had prepared . |
| 20 | Riven realised with no surprise that he could love this world and its people , despite the heartbreak it had wrought on him . |
| 21 | The army that was fighting there , particularly its professional component , was still bruised by the defeat it had sustained in Indochina in the early 1950s and was determined not to repeat the experience . |
| 22 | The NKLP 'S sister party in the south , the SKLP , had suffered serious reverses in 1949 at the hands of the Rhee government and was no longer the force it had once been . |
| 23 | Technically , says Mr Nearn , it was not a big step for Caterham to move into manufacturing the car it had been selling and marketing for years . |
| 24 | Confused and troubled , and with her body still gently glowing from the pleasure it had shared with the man lying next to her , Jessamy closed her eyes and tried to shut everything out . |
| 25 | Frank Spencer had endeared himself to so many people that Crawford 's wish to leave the character behind was tempered by the pleasure it had clearly brought . |
| 26 | He had not observed that , from the gale it had been , it had risen through level after level of violence to a power that no man living on Orkney had ever experienced or was to experience again . |
| 27 | The Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens announced on June 16 that the government had officially tied the franc to the D-Mark , formalizing the practice it had followed for the past four years . |
| 28 | No war is really a wanted war , and Vietnam was no exception , it was an unwanted war , but the US felt obliged to enter into it because of the fear it had of Communism . |
| 29 | But what was very enthralling about the jury service argument was the effect it had on older people themselves . |
| 30 | She proceeded to relate the interview , keeping nothing back apart from the effect it had had on her , but Nick knew her too well to be fooled . |