Example sentences of "it had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have to be told ; any day now it would dawn on Tollemarche that it had spawned its first successful author , and he could guess the kind of jokes his father 's colleagues were going to make when they found out what kind of book he had written . |
| 2 | Kent brewer Shepherd Neame said it had leased 60 Whitbread pubs in the south-east of England . |
| 3 | West Country pubs group J A Devenish said yesterday it had leased 115 pubs from Whitbread for eight years . |
| 4 | Last week Shepherd Neame said it had leased 60 pubs . |
| 5 | IBM Corp has filed a $7.3m federal lawsuit against Nutri-System Inc , saying the debt-ridden diet company failed to make payments on 500 personal computers it had leased — but it sounds as if the Armonkeys will have to sing for their money : the suit accuses the Blue Bell , Pennsylvania , company of making no payments since December and of refusing to allow IBM to repossess the machines , but some of Nutri-System 's major franchisees have filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against the company under Chapter 7 of the bankruptcy laws — Chapter 7 means curtains — and last week , banks seized all its cash and bank accounts , forcing the company to close its 283 company-owned weight-loss centres across the US ; while Nutri-System has failed to pay only $965,380 due under its lease with IBM , a default entitles IBM to recover the full lease sum of $7.3m . |
| 6 | In 1918 Europe lay overwhelmed by the ruin and destruction it had wrought . |
| 7 | Riven realised with no surprise that he could love this world and its people , despite the heartbreak it had wrought on him . |
| 8 | The government was , also , committed to a private sector as , in its manifesto , it had pledged support for the small businessman , of whom there were many in Chile . |
| 9 | It had coincided with rising prosperity in the expanding towns of southern England and East Anglia . |
| 10 | Within twelve months it had exceeded expectations and become a £40million growth product . |
| 11 | The population of England and Wales had grown steadily in the centuries up to about 1300 , by which time it had exceeded a level which could easily be sustained by contemporary food production . |
| 12 | Too run-down and curiously situated to appeal to most families , it had stood empty for several years before Frankie 's parents made it their home . |
| 13 | It had stood idle and decaying since 1914 and had lost most of its floors and part of the roof-a far cry from today 's substantial and elegant building that now houses the Cotswold Country Museum . |
| 14 | Either the tumour in my lung had grown in the last three and a half weeks , in which case it must be even more in evidence , or it had stood still , in which case today 's X-rays must be much the same as the previous ones , or it had diminished . |
| 15 | It had stood up , of course , and I had the confidence of the first two rounds now , of having the second fastest time behind Carl and of beating Ben . |
| 16 | The Old Rectory was only a larger , less pretentious version of Sunnybank — ridiculously named since it had stood on level ground and no sun ever seemed to penetrate its windows . |
| 17 | Until 200 years ago it had stood in the Berlin Stadtpalais for which Fiedler had also executed the panelling , flooring and cupboards . |
| 18 | The Palings was an old building ; it had stood full face to the sea and the prevailing wind for the best part of a hundred years . |
| 19 | Months later it had arrived in the post and since then it had stood in its velvet frame , beside her mother 's bed . |
| 20 | David Southworth who owned the hall and who was the nephew of Tace 's widow , had done up the lodge as a home for his wife 's mother but since her death it had stood empty . |
| 21 | If this was one creature , it had stood over half a mile high . |
| 22 | It had stood here for 300 years — a revolutionary building when it was built … until it was destroyed in a fire in 1952 . |
| 23 | The ‘ Legitimist ’ nobility , that is those who remained loyal to the elder Bourbon branch which had been deposed by the Revolution of 1830 , kept itself aloof from the court of the ‘ parvenu ’ , just as it had shunned that of Louis-Philippe . |
| 24 | Being of only flimsy material and fitting tightly round Angela 's body , it had burst in two places when she fell , and when Mummy tried to pull it off , it tore again . |
| 25 | It had burst out of her heart , out of the very depths of her being . |
| 26 | Now that it had disaffiliated it recognized the necessity of strengthening this co-operation . |
| 27 | Would that he had , he thought — how shamelessly it had flashed away , that spot of his time — ‘ What will you do with it when you get it ? ’ |
| 28 | I asked if she had made a separate tension swatch for the stocking stitch , to which she replied yes and that although she used stitch size 7 for the Fair Isle and 5.2 for the stocking stitch , it had matched exactly ( ? ) . |
| 29 | A truly political art , he realised , would not content itself with the message alone ; it would it had to engage the viewer in a questioning of the nature of the institutions and the pressures they exert , and thereby subject them to the necessary critique . |
| 30 | Italy announced it had recalled its ambassador to Romania for consultations , as did East Germany , condemning the ‘ brutal action of the Romanian state power against peaceful citizens demonstrating to assert their elementary human rights ’ . |