Example sentences of "[coord] it have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the spring , they had had a vase of bluebells in the kitchen ; he had run up the stem of one full , blue flower and it had barely bent under his weight . |
| 2 | Smoke was now pouring thickly from the doorway and it had just occurred to Rocky that no enemy personnel had as yet put in an appearance , when Larsen came stumbling out , eyes streaming , one arm hugging his daughter protectively , shotgun dangling from his free hand . |
| 3 | Deloittes had been negligent when certifying AWA 's 1986 profits and it had also failed to adequately disclose to directors various matters including books and record deficiences , the existence of ‘ hedges upon hedges ’ , the ability of its foreign exchange dealer Andrew Koval to siphon funds , and the fact that he was dealing in sums of up to $400m . |
| 4 | He told her he and Mallachy had got involved ‘ through Mallachy 's big mouth ’ in a late-club row up the Malone Road where some students had been blowing off their mouths over politics and religion , and it had almost come to blows . |
| 5 | There was this girl in a bath of asses milk , yuk ! and it had all turned to cheese , so they put her on the table with a dish of figs for afters . |
| 6 | And it 's just stuck on int it ? |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm still in America — and it 's just dawned on me that it 's probably around midnight where you are . |
| 8 | Meant to tell you about Margaret the other day and it 's just dawned on me , I meant to tell you before I forget . |
| 9 | All this was prompted by a week in Spain where I encountered something I have n't experienced in years — fresh air — and it 's quite gone to my head . |
| 10 | And it has just happened to Kate Moss at the tender age of 18 . |
| 11 | Much work has been undertaken on this aircraft and it has clearly got into the blood of those at PE , so much so that should the SAAF Museum at Swartkop , near Pretoria , ever wish to move there , they would find a fearsome fight on their hands ! |
| 12 | This also means that it has been introduced by humans to a lot of places it 's not native to — Indonesian islands , mainly — and it has widely hybridised with the introduced wild boar . |
| 13 | Of the latter , the Cirl Bunting does not appear to have taken advantage of the increasing scrub , possibly because much of it is on north-facing slopes , and it has now declined in numbers . |
| 14 | And it has always seemed to me that at that moment Wes walked back into his old life . |
| 15 | It 's been an odd kind of fulfilment ; and it has quite knocked on the head all the priggish ideas I may have had , and given me a sense of values . |
| 16 | Tina might have told her mother this , during one of their evenings of confidences , but it had never occurred to her , she being neither proud nor ashamed of it , nor even thinking it very out of the ordinary . |
| 17 | Syl was more of my mother 's generation than my own but it had never occurred to me before that he and she and Lili must all have been young at the same time . |
| 18 | She had even vaguely registered that it sold flowers , but it had never occurred to her to regard it as a serious rival . |
| 19 | ‘ Wisden ’ is widely hailed as the cricketers ' bible , but it has barely progressed beyond Chronicles ( the match reports ) and the Book of Numbers ( the records section ) . |
| 20 | At one stage ( 12–7kyr ago ) Lake Suguta covered an area of 2,000km 2 and reached depths of more than 300m , but it has since desiccated in response to an increasingly arid climate . |
| 21 | This has resulted in not only strangers and professionals moving into the arena of dying and death , but it has also led to commercialisation and big business . |
| 22 | One has led to the written constitution , but it has also led to revolution and at times tyranny . |
| 23 | But it has also led to assumptions which cause religion to be ignored , doubted and re-interpreted . |
| 24 | Cutting ticket prices for the French may have helped the park nearly to hit its attendance targets , but it has also eaten into revenues . |
| 25 | This second collapse has produced a new trade union militancy and a growing influence of re-established or new socialist parties , but it has also engendered in several countries a fervent nationalism , so far most intense in Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union where it has led to military confrontations . |
| 26 | Theology in the last sixty years or so has naturally built upon and extended aspects of the work of its nineteenth-century predecessors ; but it has also gone through some striking changes of direction , especially from the aims and programme of Liberal Theology . |
| 27 | But it has also happened for formal reasons which are not good ones at all . |
| 28 | This has undoubtedly led to the enrichment of specific rural and urban groups in the Third World , those who have successfully adapted to the changing demands of the global marketplace , but it has also resulted in many Third World countries losing their original self-sufficiency in food and becoming highly dependent on food imports from the First World . |
| 29 | It is still not fully excavated , but it has already emerged as one of the richest and most extensive prehistoric cemeteries in the Aegean . |
| 30 | Formerly this time was known as " Supply Days " and was used to discuss the grant of supply to the Crown but it has long ceased to be confined to discussion of government spending and is instead used to criticise all aspects of government policy . |