Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [vb pp] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The activity at the back of the car had ceased and it had fallen silent . |
| 2 | By the middle of 1984 , however , the company 's prediction had changed and it anticipated losing 50 per cent of its staff . |
| 3 | Every bloody boat had waved as it crossed the bar . |
| 4 | The third practice had overspent because it had taken over a smaller practice after the preparatory work on budget setting had been completed , and it had not been able to make an accurate estimate of prescribing costs for the 1300 patients involved . |
| 5 | Years before , a wooden handrail , polished by generations of hands , had lined the high pavement , but the town council had decided that it served no useful purpose and detracted from the charm of the stone-walled cottages perched high on the bank above , and when the handrail had become shaky with age it had been dismantled , much to the annoyance of the Thrush Green residents . |
| 6 | I was paid good money for 3½ years to do something about the problems of North Shields and a particular component of doing something was describing what things were like , giving an account of how they had come to be like this , and attempting to understand why the process had happened as it had . |
| 7 | By this time the rain had begun but it did n't dampen their enthusiasm one bit . |
| 8 | Faldo , who had holed a motorway of putts in the final round , holed yet another on that green , up went his arms in a triumphant ‘ V ’ and an Augustan decade had ended as it had begun , with a European as Master . |
| 9 | Opponents of the bill had argued that it amounted to " retroactive justice " by declaring illegal acts committed in another country and allowing the prosecution of people for offences committed before they became British citizens or residents . |
| 10 | Word of total closure came just one week after the society had revealed that it had taken a controversial first step toward meeting its operating costs with a loan of $1.5 million from Sotheby 's secured by $3.5 million worth of works from its vast collections . |
| 11 | Johnson also read a little — in his room he had works by his erstwhile host Lord Monboddo , and Laurence Sterne 's Sermons of Mr Yorick ( interestingly , Boswell does not give the full title , merely calling it Sermons , a deference perhaps to the scandal the book had caused when it appeared in 1760 ) . |
| 12 | In Stenhouse Australia Ltd v Phillips [ 1974 ] AC 391 the restraint of trade clause was part of an agreement made between the parties after employment had ceased as it had been in Wyatt 's case . |
| 13 | The second hand had stopped where it had met the pin inserted near the 55-second mark . |
| 14 | Right-wing parties for their part had complained that it entailed the abandonment of the country 's constitutional claim to all territory within the German borders of 1938 , including lands east of the Oder and Neisse rivers which were now in Poland or the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | He 'd caught a glimpse of the two of them reflected in the hall mirror and his heart had lurched because it looked as if he was propping up a corpse . |
| 16 | Briefly put , the law is now back to what Parliament had intended when it enacted the Act of 1906 — but stronger and clearer than it was then . ’ |
| 17 | The lank look had disappeared and it did look lighter . |
| 18 | More than half thought the school had explained but it seemed to be in the past , a one-off opportunity and not an on-going process . |
| 19 | At the beginning of the 1750s very few Englishmen in America had pushed even as far inland as the East India Company had done when it founded its port up the Hughli river at Calcutta . |
| 20 | Whereas Zen knew that the truth prevailed , if at all , only after so much time had passed that it had become meaningless , like a senile prisoner who can safely be released , his significance forgotten , his friends dead , a babbling idiot . |
| 21 | The Council issued a statement on 13 September , correcting some points in the press reports , emphasizing that the visiting party had indicated that it believed the Polytechnic had ‘ the potential to rectify the grave situation in which it finds itself , and stressing that the visiting party had not suggested that courses as currently taught were below an acceptable standard . |