Example sentences of "[noun sg] it had [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not bonded to those below it by the neat filling of soil and small growth that bound all the rest , though it lay aligned precisely to fill the place it had surely filled for a year or more . |
| 2 | As well as cutting client prices to $250 and server prices to $1,300 , Univel has bucked up its Personal server Edition with the Windows Merge facility it had previously listed as a $400 add-on product so it can run DOS and Windows 3.0/3.1 applications under Unix . |
| 3 | Its not-very-complicated mind was trying to come to terms with the fact that the shape of the nomes — two arms , two legs , a head at the top — was a shape it associated with humans and had learnt to avoid , but the size was the size it had always thought of as a mouthful . |
| 4 | Once they had pretended they were childhood sweethearts , played at falling in love , but of course it had all ended in laughter . |
| 5 | By the mid-nineteenth century it had already extended across the whole social spectrum . |
| 6 | Having got the kind of structure it had always insisted upon , it seems clear that Britain had no qualms about such a statement being used to promote some version of supranationalism . |
| 7 | Until this year it had hardly occurred in Latin America since the first world war , when indentured workers stopped arriving from Asia . |
| 8 | On the other hand , the numerous developments and debates of the decade had not persuaded a single country to shift from the position it had originally adopted on the European question in the 1940s . |
| 9 | It was a very difficult period , because whereas retrenchment and redundancy are now something employees understand and accept , this was the first time it had ever happened in ICI since the war . |