Example sentences of "it had when " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all so sudden that the universe had no time to lose the smoothness it had when it was the size of an atom . |
| 2 | The strange and difficult was becoming second nature in the way that it had when I 'd learned to fly . |
| 3 | It still retained the same dark blue colour that it had when it was stamped into the passport by a British policeman 32 years earlier ; last exit from Palestine . |
| 4 | Certainly , as Abraham set out to offer Isaac as a sacrifice in the way God had commanded him , his faith was flying blind in its implicit obedience , just as it had when he set out from Ur for a country which he had never seen . |
| 5 | All in all , the people 's party may not have played quite the ace it thought it had when it chose Smith as its leader . |
| 6 | So far , the British Electric Traction Co. had held all the capital and completely controlled the expenditure and policy of the South Metropolitan undertaking , just as it had when it worked the Corporation system . |
| 7 | The prime minister 's smile spread even further in the slightly crooked way it had when he thought he had an opponent hoist with his own petard . |
| 8 | The absurd rent lured her , it made her hundred pounds look less pathetic than it had when she checked into Mrs Archer 's hotel . |
| 9 | Some people claimed to have seen the sun turn in the sky , in the same way as it had when the miracle occurred so many years before . |
| 10 | Lisa felt the cold finger of panic momentarily touch her , just as it had when , over the phone earlier , the girl from the claims department had told her the awful truth . |