Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He was amazed with the improvement I had made and it showed just what can be achieved with hard practice .
2 I had assumed that it meant the characteristic of being alive , livingness , whatever it is that makes life life .
3 Cupid , which is moving its head office from Accrington to Blackburn , Lancashire , said it needed the cash to reduce borrowings which had increased since it took over the Youngs formal wear business last year .
4 She was more scratched than she had realised and it felt as if every small insect in the wood had landed in her hair .
5 It was the first show of emotion she had made and it did more to make Wexford believe her story than all the documentary evidence she had furnished him with .
6 Must remember that phrase : he could see it had struck and it struck him too : he paused to give it the silent applause of a mute punctuation .
7 " It had killed before it met us , " said Blackberry with a shudder .
8 It had survived because it had got a metallic thread running through it .
9 His plaster had been changed , and he had written whilst it dried .
10 He had bought a bunch of parsley on his way in , because he had heard that it clears away the smell of alcohol .
11 Until he reached five degrees he had found that it turned easily , through long use … but now it became stiff and awkward .
12 He clearly thought he had won and it annoyed her .
13 He had protested that it did not have the money and had been told that ‘ the Minister would not wear a statement that funds were exhausted ’ .
14 Cardinal Tisserant suddenly announced that further voting on religious liberty would be postponed until the next session , claiming the document now before the Council was so different from what had gone before it needed to be debated all over again .
15 Seb shouted up to tell him what had happened and it took Dolly no more than a couple of minutes to hurry downstairs and throw open the cottage door .
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