Example sentences of "[prep] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some years ago the teachers of one language pronounced themselves satisfied that at the end of a year the students of it had the capacity for literary reading ; the equally competent and concerned teachers of another language were convinced that their students had achieved no such capacity , and that the process was rather a waste of time . |
| 2 | What little remained of it had never rejoiced in the calm self-assurance of the French , who had equated their race with civilization . |
| 3 | They all used to hang out there and quite a scene had developed Some of it had to do with it being the antithesis of the whole trash/sleaze thing that was going down at the start of the seventies . |
| 4 | The extreme delight of it had almost shocked her ; it was her one personal extravagance . |
| 5 | The present owners purchased the mill in 1976 after part of it had been used to house chickens and the mill-pond had been used for fish-farming . |
| 6 | A plan of it had appeared in the Architects ' Journal the previous Friday , and it also appeared in The Times the morning after the Prince 's speech . |
| 7 | The top of it had been raised so that Bella , propped up against two pillows , her face grey against their whiteness , was almost in a sitting position . |
| 8 | Much of it had been enclosed , and pasture-farming was the predominant mode of agriculture . |
| 9 | ‘ It vanished quite slowly , beginning with the end of the tail , and ending with the grin , which remained some time after the rest of it had gone . ’ |
| 10 | Every word of it had been a lie and to this truth Trent remained as totally committed now , close to his own death , as he had been when plotting the downfall of the groups he had penetrated . |
| 11 | But Dewey 's application of it had a very direct effect on educational practice in the classroom . |
| 12 | A garbled version of it had somehow reached England . |
| 13 | Much of it had disappeared during the redevelopment programmes after 1945 . |
| 14 | In my own studies of theatre audiences and of book reading habits in the United Kingdom I found , when I began , that there was very little published at all on who goes to the theatre and , while there was more information available on adult reading habits , much of it had its source in America and much of what was available in Britain referred to borrowing from libraries but excluded book buying . |
| 15 | There was only a bit of spare paper left and some of it had got streaks of cheese-grease on , so I went over to the newsagent 's stall and bought an exercise book for 35p . |
| 16 | The front of it had oak beams and curved glass in the shape of a Wurlitzer jukebox . |
| 17 | But in this case most of it had n't been touched since 1934 , and part of it was requisitioned for troops during the war . |
| 18 | As a result much of it had to be stored in a continuously digesting system , so a large torso was needed . |
| 19 | Her cancer , which had not even been mentioned during the hypnosis session , rapidly regressed and after a few weeks even all radiological evidence of it had disappeared . |
| 20 | The prosecution was allowed to sum up its evidence in secret hearing as part of it had been given in camera . |
| 21 | Even the height of it had to be lowered by two storeys when Ceauşescu decided thirteen storeys would be quite enough ( unlike Elena he was not superstitious ) , and no one pointed out that they were already on the fifteenth floor . |
| 22 | Most of it had passed over Vologsky 's head . |
| 23 | The Indian in charge of it had to do all the technical work himself , and I gave the short address that had been scheduled . |
| 24 | Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of . |
| 25 | One of the major objectives of the account was to reapportion credit within the movement since much of it had been misappropriated by those who had done little or only appeared after emancipation in 1834 . |
| 26 | His debt gathering work was handed over to a colleague once the legal aspects of it had been sorted out . |
| 27 | Over £60,000 was in the king 's Treasury in November 1326 , but some of this was spent paying off the force of Hainault mercenaries which Isabella had recruited for her invasion in 1326 ; some of it was simply appropriated by Mortimer and Isabella for their personal use , and some of it had to be used to finance the war against the Scots which was renewed in the summer of 1327 . |
| 28 | But most of it had already escaped the princes ' grasp in the tenth century ; in the course of the eleventh , it passed squarely into the hands of local castellans , who exacted fines and imposed penalties on their peasants with remorseless vigour . |
| 29 | Not only that , the recordings were made on the very instrument for which most of it had been written , so there 's no doubt that the sounds we hear are the very sounds he had in mind when setting out his very registration . |
| 30 | The castle of Richmond filled an obvious gap in Gloucester 's domination of Richmondshire , although the lack of it had made little practical difference to his position there , since Clarence seems to have played no part in northern affairs after 1471 . |