Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Caroline had disappeared but it had been shown that it was nothing to do with him . |
| 32 | The lank look had disappeared and it did look lighter . |
| 33 | She had done enough of that over the past few weeks , and had found that it led nowhere . |
| 34 | The men destroying the heap of stones in the woods , on the orders of the priest , had found that it covered a shallow grave . |
| 35 | Until he reached five degrees he had found that it turned easily , through long use … but now it became stiff and awkward . |
| 36 | In November Waterstones had declared that it had terminated the concession , giving six months ' notice . |
| 37 | Johnson also read a little — in his room he had works by his erstwhile host Lord Monboddo , and Laurence Sterne 's Sermons of Mr Yorick ( interestingly , Boswell does not give the full title , merely calling it Sermons , a deference perhaps to the scandal the book had caused when it appeared in 1760 ) . |
| 38 | I had assumed that it meant the characteristic of being alive , livingness , whatever it is that makes life life . |
| 39 | The Council issued a statement on 13 September , correcting some points in the press reports , emphasizing that the visiting party had indicated that it believed the Polytechnic had ‘ the potential to rectify the grave situation in which it finds itself , and stressing that the visiting party had not suggested that courses as currently taught were below an acceptable standard . |
| 40 | Cardinal Tisserant suddenly announced that further voting on religious liberty would be postponed until the next session , claiming the document now before the Council was so different from what had gone before it needed to be debated all over again . |
| 41 | Every bloody boat had waved as it crossed the bar . |
| 42 | Cupid , which is moving its head office from Accrington to Blackburn , Lancashire , said it needed the cash to reduce borrowings which had increased since it took over the Youngs formal wear business last year . |
| 43 | Must remember that phrase : he could see it had struck and it struck him too : he paused to give it the silent applause of a mute punctuation . |
| 44 | So much had happened that it seemed incredible that it was barely a week since she 'd crossed the bridge in the opposite direction . |
| 45 | I was paid good money for 3½ years to do something about the problems of North Shields and a particular component of doing something was describing what things were like , giving an account of how they had come to be like this , and attempting to understand why the process had happened as it had . |
| 46 | This was n't supposed to happen — but then , nothing today had happened as it had been supposed to . |
| 47 | Seb shouted up to tell him what had happened and it took Dolly no more than a couple of minutes to hurry downstairs and throw open the cottage door . |
| 48 | In Stenhouse Australia Ltd v Phillips [ 1974 ] AC 391 the restraint of trade clause was part of an agreement made between the parties after employment had ceased as it had been in Wyatt 's case . |
| 49 | The activity at the back of the car had ceased and it had fallen silent . |
| 50 | He had briefly been in the Army but had left when it became clear that he would not get commissioned . |
| 51 | Whereas Zen knew that the truth prevailed , if at all , only after so much time had passed that it had become meaningless , like a senile prisoner who can safely be released , his significance forgotten , his friends dead , a babbling idiot . |
| 52 | " It had killed before it met us , " said Blackberry with a shudder . |
| 53 | By this time the rain had begun but it did n't dampen their enthusiasm one bit . |
| 54 | The IMF had stated that it anticipated that the balance-of-payments deficit would increase during 1989 and would be worsened by capital outflows from the country and a deteriorating trade balance . |
| 55 | Right-wing parties for their part had complained that it entailed the abandonment of the country 's constitutional claim to all territory within the German borders of 1938 , including lands east of the Oder and Neisse rivers which were now in Poland or the Soviet Union . |
| 56 | After Mr Runciman had complained that it appeared the firm was acting on privileged information , Mr Malcolm had instructed his salesmen not to initiate any further sales . |
| 57 | Faldo , who had holed a motorway of putts in the final round , holed yet another on that green , up went his arms in a triumphant ‘ V ’ and an Augustan decade had ended as it had begun , with a European as Master . |
| 58 | It had survived because it had got a metallic thread running through it . |
| 59 | The clothing industry , including flax , had flourished because it supplied both the Tsarist and the Red Armies which trampled through Belorussia . |
| 60 | Gassendi had suggested that it shows improper pride for a person who has feet to take him where he wants to go to ‘ yearn to fly like the birds ’ . |