Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Peter Stewart , hospital unit general manager , would not comment on the outcome of the appeal until he had heard officially that it had been defeated . |
| 2 | One had tried using a hand-held scanner for the job but had given up because it made too many mistakes . |
| 3 | Lamprey was reading the second , and so far no word had come downstairs that it had been rejected . |
| 4 | Then when we finished and come out we er there was such a commotion in the street while we were in there taking aircraft spotting a , a German aircraft had come over and it had dropped a bomb on the gasworks had the plane , and we had known nothing about it . |
| 5 | Her eyes leapt from Abraham begat Isaac and Isaac begat Jacob to Verse 25 of the Gospel According to St Matthew , to which she had turned simply because it began the New Testament and she had been unable to make anything of the Old . |
| 6 | Although Chancellor Kohl later agreed to an apparent compromise it was clear even then — how much more so now — that West Germany had killed the programme , and it had done so because it sensed far better than any of its Nato partners how completely President Gorbachev had changed the situation in Europe . |
| 7 | She had said , her eyes glittering with simulated enthusiasm , that she could hardly wait to get to her cottage , and Betty had said wistfully that it seemed like years since she had seen a blade of grass ( which was silly in itself , because of what else were the lawns of Hyde Park composed ? ) ; so Lydia , unhinged with the shock of bereavement , and further undone by wine , had said she could come too . |
| 8 | It was not the huge success that Lotus Development had anticipated mainly because it demanded hardware that seemed excessive at the time — an AT with at least 1MByte of RAM . |
| 9 | The Royal Bank of Scotland said it had pulled out because it saw no continuing need for its participation . |
| 10 | She 'd had to use , muscle tissue had wasted away where it had been stretched by the double hernia |
| 11 | The cat 's cradle had elongated so that it looked like a cone . |