Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Mordauntt v. British Oil & Cake Mills Ltd. ( 1910 K.B. ) the seller was told of the sub-sale by the buyer only after it had been made . |
| 2 | But Brown did not tell Pincher that some of those agents had been betrayed with the knowledge and authority of MI6 , as part of Blake 's supposed role as a double agent , because the government had suppressed that part of the story just as it had Blake 's part in the Berlin tunnel affair . |
| 3 | Pike based his appeal on the contention that he had fed the horse properly but it had n't absorbed it . |
| 4 | And she typed the dream exactly as it had come to her . |
| 5 | We missed the lady fortunately cos it had you see that last push it just flew right over her head and past her . |
| 6 | The prediction is made more precise by making it equal to 1,290 days and then adding another 45 days ( 12.11–12 ) — to the despair of the modern interpreter , — but probably to the complete satisfaction of the contemporary reader who read the prophecy just when it had been fulfilled . |
| 7 | Mr Kendal inspected the cellar in 1891 and found the place exactly as it had been when Durham used it . |
| 8 | There had been a thunderstorm the night before but it had swept over and the lake was calm . |
| 9 | He had wondered how the KGB would react to the Reznichenko Memorandum ; now he saw they must have been analysing the pattern long before it had occurred to him . |
| 10 | Water had dripped on to the paper so that it had become sodden and merged with the lettuce leaves . |
| 11 | The government kept the army small in the past mostly because it had noticed that autocratic regimes with large armies are vulnerable to military coups . |
| 12 | Tears stung her eyes as she heard his anger and she turned away , rubbing a hand over her eyes to wipe them away , but it seemed impossible to stop the flow now that it had begun . |
| 13 | I 'm sure she would n't have taken the matter lightly if it had been her own colleagues who had been beaten up and tortured . |
| 14 | Well I did n't have the heating on after it had gone off at nine o'clock you know . |
| 15 | The boldness of this interpretation lies in allowing the validity of the trust even though it had not been addressed to the daughter and had not been intended to be paid by her . |
| 16 | Luckily they were near the B-H-S store and put the fire out before it had a chance to catch hold . |
| 17 | One of the most bizarre elements of the whole plutonium jigsaw is the fact that at one time the government sanctioned , at cabinet level , two private companies to own some of the material even though it had been produced by the electricity generating industry . |