Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dave Morris , the Ramblers ' Scottish officer , said the Government had already accepted that it needed to look to Europe for future ideas for the countryside . |
| 2 | Sunlight reflected from a window among the palm trees to lance a sliver of dazzling light at our cockpit , then the reflection was gone and we were at sea level , engines screaming , and I fumbled for the camera , prayed it had not broken when it fell from the ceiling , and took another picture just before Maggot lifted the aircraft 's nose so that we swooped up and over the palm trees that edged the beach . |
| 3 | After a few years , the conclusion was reached that the experiment had not worked as it had been expected to , and cuts in educational spending soon brought it to an end . |
| 4 | Enthusiasm for an approach to the Comintern had largely evaporated as it became clear that the Communists were intent on superseding the ILP . |
| 5 | The United States filed a brief denying the supposedly exclusive character of the Convention , but urging that principles of comity should be applied to determine whether an order should be made under the Federal Rules when the foreign country had unequivocally stated that it regarded such an order as a violation of its sovereignty ; and argued that a District Court could in any event not order the taking of depositions in Germany without compliance with the procedures prescribed by the German authorities ( in this case , those of the Convention ) . |
| 6 | The Vietnamese government had always maintained that it had returned all US POWs to the US government shortly after the signing of the Paris peace agreements in 1973 . |
| 7 | He sought resolve and found a little and went to lie down on the bed to read a paperback of Anna Karenina , which he had always fancied because it had a scene on a railway platform . |
| 8 | She was the most efficient secretary he had ever had and it irked him that she had made it clear that , if and when he moved , she would wish to stay at Larksoken . |
| 9 | The horse had gradually slowed as it tired , until the animal now moved forward at a resigned walk . |
| 10 | It had been a long walk , but Travis was barely breathing hard , a fact she wished she had n't noticed because it underlined his strength and she found that such a potent attraction . |
| 11 | ‘ You had n't considered that it had nothing to do with you , I suppose ? |
| 12 | I decided it was just because she had n't mattered that it had n't been worth shocking her . |
| 13 | She had n't known if it had been changed — it was unlikely — but if nothing else it would help to gain him admittance . |
| 14 | Most analysts believed , however , that COPEI had simply decided that it had nothing to gain from being associated any longer with the deeply unpopular AD government . |
| 15 | The PLO had earlier announced that it had approved talks with Baker . |
| 16 | Thomas got up at last from his new place in the middle of the table , which he had quite liked because it had leg access to a rung where he could wriggle his feet when he was bored . |
| 17 | Already he had half decided that it had to be . |
| 18 | Israel had never acknowledged that it possessed nuclear weapons . |
| 19 | She had never questioned where it came from , though she knew deep inside . |