Example sentences of "had [vb pp] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its windows and doors had been sealed up with breeze-blocks but the Koranic inscription beneath the roof remained and someone had painted it in the past ten years . |
| 2 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 3 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |
| 4 | He had addressed it to the Chief Accountant personally , and a letter so addressed , in his distinctive handwriting would stand out a mile when the letters were spread across Steve Pyle 's desk . |
| 5 | Six years later Murphy had turned it into the biggest agency in Scotland , overtaking Barkers , traditionally the market leader , and bought it out ( the implicit threat being that he would start up on his own ) for £100,000 . |
| 6 | Instead , they had fed it with the only food he knew . |
| 7 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 8 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 9 | We had seen it in the other tombs as well , sometimes carved on top of the paintings . |
| 10 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
| 11 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 12 | This was the street along which she had run , a skinny and excited ten-year-old , to boast to her father that she was the only girl who had made it to the next round of the chess competition . |
| 13 | The land in question was in that part of northern Zawiya which is called Mannaia , and it seems beyond doubt that the Mannaia had granted it to the Sanusi order in the 1870s . |
| 14 | J.B. Priestley once said that it could never quite make up its mind whether it was a port or a resort , but that very ambivalence had saved it from the worst pitfalls of both . |
| 15 | Frankie Howerd had bought it in the early Seventies . |
| 16 | The bill was passed by the House by 273 votes to 154 ; the Senate had approved it on the previous day by 62 votes to 34 . |
| 17 | Again , on the flight home from Melbourne at the end of their Australian tour in 1985 , Charles hand-wrote a long and frank letter about his thoughts on a wide range of issues , including the Greater London Council — a politically explosive subject — — and had entrusted it to the common mail , without apparently thinking it unwise . |
| 18 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 19 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 20 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 21 | He explained about the legend and the Monument and the meteorite that had brought it in the first place . |
| 22 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
| 23 | And you had best be grateful to me , for if you had left it to the little men of law he could buy better and shiftier than you , and you would never have got your money at all . ’ |
| 24 | Apart from the light from Craig 's torch , still propped where he had left it against the main power conduits , the chamber was dark and empty . |
| 25 | It would have been suspiciously obvious parked near nothing but a gap in the fence , so he had left it by the nearest flats . |
| 26 | The new Careers leaflet was in stock and National Office had inserted it in the new student packs . |
| 27 | He had put it on the draining board . |
| 28 | He was not much older than Peter and he looked puzzled , as if wondering not only how to end this conversation but how he had begun it in the first place . |
| 29 | Another part in the book that I did n't understand until I had read it for the second time was a bit right at the every end . |
| 30 | When I phoned Kagan he told me that he had instructed his trustees in Israel to make the payment , but by some terrible misunderstanding they had paid it into the wrong charity . ’ |