Example sentences of "[conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 2 | Then back to the shop , with Lucy now taking the money from her pinafore pocket where it had been tied in her handkerchief , and paying for the corn ; to go on her way feeling quite a little woman of the world . |
| 3 | But in July Mary of Guise was able to fight back more successfully , and at the end of the month the two sides made another truce , by which Edinburgh was to be free to choose its religion , and Catholic observance was not to be reinstated where it had been suppressed . |
| 4 | I was carved up by a let-me-through Porsche , with a chap at the wheel chatting into his Deutsche Telekom mobile phone , and then caught up with the car again a few kilometres further on , where it had slithered on the wet cobbles and collided with an antique tram . |
| 5 | She took another spoonful of her mother 's chicken soup and smiled as she pushed her fringe back out of her eyes , and she wondered what had happened to the spider — where it had been transported to and what had become of it . |
| 6 | Thus , in October of 1154 , Barbarossa mounted his first expedition , with the aim of restoring papal authority where it had been challenged , and fully realising the imperial crown . |
| 7 | On the same day that he received Palmerston 's letter , he replied that he had not intended to say that Gothic was re-established as the leading English architecture of the day , but rather its history and origin made a strong case for its revival in those countries where it had first flourished . |
| 8 | It was substantially enlarged from £30 million per annum to about £125 million per annum , and was transferred from the Home Office ( where it had been since 1968 ) to the Department of the Environment . |
| 9 | So far discussion has been limited to discussing the beneficiary 's ability to recover the trust property where it had passed into the hands of a third party : in principle the beneficiary was able to follow it , but his claim could be barred depending on the nature of the acquisition by the third party . |
| 10 | I remember once when she was climbing into bed in her Waaf-issue blue striped pyjamas , a cheeky little field mouse popped up from between her sheets where it had evidently been nesting , and streaked across the hut to disappear down a convenient crack in the wooden wall . |
| 11 | This orientation , Siemens suggests , was imposed from Teotihuacan where it had special astronomical and ritual significance . |
| 12 | I watched the re-run of the race on the big stadium scoreboard , checked that I had run second and then went back under to collect my kit from the airless , sweat-filled room where it had been taken from the start . |
| 13 | Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots . |
| 14 | Before departing , we added more tape to the top of the fuselage , where it had come loose . |
| 15 | It arose from a groundswell of opinion in the EC that the internal market would be a success only where it had the support of both ‘ sides ’ of industry and if it was designed to benefit every citizen of the Community . |
| 16 | Where it had covered Forster 's face , his neck , chin , mouth , nose and one cheek , the skin and lips had gone , as if etched away by acid . |
| 17 | The dreaded disease had taken almost thirty years to reach Champagne since it was first identified in the Côtes-du-Rhône region , where it had arrived on experimental vine stocks shipped from America via London . |
| 18 | Stains on fabric and leather had yielded to chemical analysis to reveal the exact chemical components of the explosive ; the extent of burn- and impact-deterioration had shown him how much was used , where it had been placed and how it had been triggered . |
| 19 | When it was over , the top of his head ached where it had been crammed up against the headboard and there were red marks just below his knees where his legs had gone over the footboard . |
| 20 | The wreckage of the plane lay about 100 metres to the seaward side of the runway , where it had broken in two just in front of the wing section . |
| 21 | Hank paid five dollars from his paper money as the first month 's rent , and , later that day , he and several of his friends pushed a dowager of a car round from his back lane , where it had been dumped by a tow truck , into the Dawsons ' garage . |
| 22 | Thus the service for King Charles the Martyr disappeared from the Book of Common Prayer ; at the same time his name was deleted from its calendar , where it had previously appeared on 30 January . |
| 23 | Recently a member heard of an 1870 five compartment EX-L & SWR coach incorporated in the garden of Mike Rule of Fyfield , Andover where it had been the home to a family of eight from 1920 to 1965 . |
| 24 | Hydroelectric schemes and dams , sometimes ill-conceived and subsequently damaging to the environment ; roads and cultivation ; forest clearance , often to make a quick profit : all these and many more ‘ improvements ’ drove the elephant into areas where it had never lived before . |
| 25 | And this , in spite of some effort on my part to prevent it , led to the subject of science fiction , and where it had gone since the original efforts of Swift and Verne and H. G. Wells . |
| 26 | Naumann and occasional partner Alfred Bader purchased the work at Christie 's , London , in December 1992 for £1,045,000 ( $1,610,345 ) , where it had been consigned as ‘ The Property of a Lady and a Gentleman ’ . |
| 27 | Outstanding is the black chalk and charcoal head by Piero , once in the collection of John Skippe and spotted by Ms Ganz in a private collection where it had lain unattributed for the past thirty-five years . |
| 28 | Reminds you of the US Interstate Highway system and the way it instantly snarled as soon as Washington residents tried to exit en masse during the riots of the late 1960s , does n't it … that blizzard coming on top of the New York World Trade Center bombing was just the kind of disaster the disaster recovery industry has been dreading : according to the New York Times , a heavy accumulation of snow caused the roof of the computer centre in Clifton , New Jersey that supports 5,000 automatic teller machines US-wide , 6% of the total , to collapse , putting the machines out of action — and the centre could n't transfer its operations to the North Bergen , New Jersey site where it had disaster recovery facilities arranged — because the site was full up with work transferred by Trade Center tenants … |
| 29 | His thick black curly hair seemed to grow around his head like a crown , leaving his forehead exposed where it had receded . |
| 30 | The greatest challenge to the continuing applicability of public service principles to broadcasting structure and content was not the arrival of TV itself , which slid comfortably into the BBC system in 1946 , where it had started 10 years earlier , but the Churchill government 's decision to introduce a second TV network in 1955 . |