Example sentences of "[conj] had it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did that commingling of unrelated flavours remind me of another dish , or had it produced a breakthrough in gastronomy ? |
| 2 | Or had it been a fruit ? |
| 3 | Or had it been shot down over the Channel ? |
| 4 | Or had it always been an illusion anyway ? |
| 5 | It had n't been a dream , or had it ? |
| 6 | Never has there been such a sporting farce over a straightforward issue : Was the ball out of shape through natural causes ( Law 5.5 ) or had it been damaged deliberately ( Law 42.5 ) ? |
| 7 | Or had it ? |
| 8 | Or had it been something more subtle , a pledge that , despite everything , they were allies , that he understood her priorities and would make them his ? |
| 9 | How many millions similar to him have given up the ghost of ambition or had it driven out of them ? |
| 10 | As the eldest son , Father shortened his education — or had it shortened for him — and went to help in the family business . |
| 11 | Have you ever had to , have you ever had to actually , have you had any major things that have gone wrong in the house or had it been okay ? |
| 12 | Or had it been triumph ? |
| 13 | Or had it been done deliberately ? |
| 14 | Or had it taken from him . |
| 15 | Or had it been his sister ? |
| 16 | Thirty minutes of oratory and twelve of applause ; or had it been the other way round ? |
| 17 | Or had it been so unimaginable ? |
| 18 | He hacked his way through his cereal — Alf had been right — or had it been Bert ? |
| 19 | Had she been less committed to parenting , perhaps because her children were older and seen to be less in need of her support , or had it been an event which threatened a role or idea to which she was less committed , perhaps losing a part-time job which she did not enjoy , the effect would be less threatening . |
| 20 | They had both apparently been part of the group clustered around the door ; had that been mere coincidence , or had it been Harry Martin that Luke had been so engrossed in talking to ? |
| 21 | Had her sister known David was back in the country , or had it been a shock ? |
| 22 | Or had it been between them , or only in her own highly tuned emotions ? |
| 23 | Nor had it been mentioned in Parliament since the previous April , when Hall proposed setting up the Select Committee and holding an international competition . |
| 24 | The unconscious blackmail threat levelled at his parents — he would marry Sien unless they accepted him as he was — had n't resulted in his expulsion , but nor had it improved matters . |
| 25 | Nor had it stopped her form giving me news that struck me dumb with panic . |
| 26 | Nor had it taken her long to discover the source of her aunt 's woes , and now the reason for them returned to her mind . |
| 27 | Yeltsin 's closing speech on April 21 emphasized that the Congress had not resolved any of the problems of the relationship between executive and legislative authority , nor had it endorsed a new constitution for the state . |
| 28 | Answer guide : The point here is that at the date of the balance sheet the business did not own the asset nor had it any right to its use as all that had happened at that date was an order had been placed which could easily be cancelled . |
| 29 | Bosnia is in worse condition now than had it been split up last year . |
| 30 | Publication of the disclosed material during the recent criminal appeal hearing , even had it been total , would no more rid it of its prima facie immunity than had it been aired in disciplinary or criminal proceedings brought against the police officers concerned , the situation expressly envisaged in Makanjuola 's case . |