Example sentences of "[verb] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clouds of water vapour that had surrounded it had condensed to form seas , but they were still hot . |
| 2 | Denying it had not stopped it from growing . |
| 3 | So 15 of the chosen 30 have a very modest international background — and this going into tests against Australia , the World Cup holders , and South Africa , who rather fancy that they would have won it had they been invited . |
| 4 | He says he did not know it had been . |
| 5 | How d' you know it had anything to do with Frank 's death ? ’ |
| 6 | The owner did n't even know it had gone . ’ |
| 7 | I did n't know it had happened ! |
| 8 | How did she know it had been like that ? |
| 9 | Did you know it had |
| 10 | No one else was sure if they agreed , but they did know it had taken him nearly half an hour to get through , and the conversation had been brief . |
| 11 | The chief of the Near East Division had sat him down one day to try to teach him about Iran , but he doubted it had gone in . |
| 12 | At the gateway to the dock a black sports saloon had passed across a junction , unnerving her , but she doubted it had been Rory 's . |
| 13 | Ibrahim rather doubted it had been there in the first place . ’ |
| 14 | But since Miletti was immobilized it had been agreed that he would be fetched by a group consisting of Pietro Miletti escorted by Zen and Palottino in the Alfetta , with an ambulance in attendance in case Ruggiero required immediate attention . |
| 15 | The vole had eaten seeds and nuts and because it sensed the long winter to come it had eaten a little of everything : acorns , hazels , haws , hips , sweet catkins , sour apples , sharp sloes , soft blackberries . |
| 16 | It was discarded when shelving had to be cleared away from a wall on which a mural had been discovered after being painted over in the Stalinist era when the artist who created it had fallen out of favour . |
| 17 | ( The bank clerk who had occupied it had been called up to the army . ) |
| 18 | At the time she had supposed it had been a reaction to his upbringing , all those years spent in his parents ' elegant Georgian house on the edge of a quiet , beautiful Sussex village . |
| 19 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 20 | I bit the shell of one and gave the kernel to her , and then bit another and pretended it had broken one of my teeth and I was in too much pain . ’ |
| 21 | We sailed down the reaches of the Thames and , standing in the bows , I saw the river through the eyes of Marlow in Conrad 's Heart of Darkness , as a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home or to the battles of the sea " . |
| 22 | ‘ I expect it had some help , then , ’ said Dorcas . |
| 23 | In 1929 the work of a cub reporter on a small town daily newspaper occupied his time from early morning until often late at night , seven days a week — in other words whenever something newsworthy was happening it had to be covered , and there were no limits to the time spent or the hours required to adequately cover any given assignment . |
| 24 | Since the time of Tsao Ch'un it had been so . |
| 25 | When the Scottish Office published the Touche Ross report it had stated that further work on costing might be needed . |
| 26 | You know some say it had a trunk |
| 27 | One or two of the boys would go in there , fellers of the village , and they would stop there all night , and the next night ; and they say it had been known for it to go the week ; have a week settin' in , staying in the pub . |
| 28 | And what would you do if someone were to break down those pillars , Shae — scream and protest and say it had all been done against your will ? ’ |
| 29 | If I gave you something to integrate that looked like erm say it had a sine X , I know you like those . |
| 30 | No , the two pro , the thing that the two prongs sit in is cracked so naturally say it had to go into a hole that size , right ? |