Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said she had seen the programme and wondered if it had spoiled anything for me , but I was able to reassure her that it had improved my life . |
| 2 | People were cursing the Greenhouse Effect and swearing that it had put paid to surf in Hawaii for all time . |
| 3 | Just imagine what your reaction would be if you were given a brand new washing machine and told that it had to last you for seventy years or more . |
| 4 | They listened to the Black story and admitted that it had important implications . |
| 5 | Would I one day show people this jacket and say that it had been a lovely afternoon in Central Park when he gave it to me and , in closing , would I say that as he disappeared into the trees , I never saw Oscar Wilde again ? |
| 6 | He was appalled at the thought of turning into a pub at five-thirty for a quiet drink and finding that it had been converted into a Poets ' Pub , ‘ reverberating , like an African village , with the roll of ‘ Drake 's Drum . ’ . |
| 7 | He liked that phrase and observed that it had hoisted his reputation for conversation to the top of the pole . |
| 8 | He really must get back to the library and see if it had any more books on the subject . |
| 9 | Susan Tilley patted her impeccable coif and conceded that it had all turned out really well , and smiled her friendly , competent smile . |
| 10 | The majority of their lordships rejected this argument and held that it had been intended that a customer who accepted the offer by buying four gallons would thereby become entitled in law to have a World Cup coin . |
| 11 | Endill climbed to the shelf where he had left the cough mixture and saw that it had gone . |
| 12 | — ‘ Non , ’ Alyssia said , mastering the French word and deciding that it had a certain ring to it when used in conversation with this particular woman . |
| 13 | I was put in touch with a local historian who thought that the stone was possibly a Roman altar stone and said that it had been discovered set into the wall of the church when renovations were made a few years ago . |
| 14 | The taxi ride from the airport to the little village where she was staying , only six kilometres from Nice , had been uncomfortable because the air-conditioning in the car had broken down three days before her arrival and was waiting to be repaired , and all in all her last vestiges of good humour had finally bitten the dust as she 'd stood in front of the house and realised that it had n't finished being built . |
| 15 | The plaintiffs were manufacturers of a boiler disincrustant and claimed that it had been produced by a secret process . |