Example sentences of "it had [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the liquid was meant to flow into the chamber from some high point on the hillside and then out to the tank supplying the house , it had given up in the hot weather and was no longer doing so . |
| 2 | It had also introduced postgraduate diplomas and higher doctorates to supplement the undergraduate , masters and doctoral degrees it had decided on at an early stage . |
| 3 | I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week . |
| 4 | It had gone off in a hotel in Leinster Place and would always in future be known as the ‘ Bayswater Bomb ’ . |
| 5 | A bi-partisan approach to foreign policy could be maintained in the most momentous ever commitment in US foreign policy , the North Atlantic Pact , but it had broken down on the issue of China even if ‘ the attack of the primitives ’ , as Acheson put it , had as much to do with Truman 's unexpected victory in the presidential election in 1948 and the consequent fury and frustration of the Republican Party . |
| 6 | The cottage , with its lichen-covered roof , looked as though it had grown out of the moor . |
| 7 | Er I think in this context strength to strength is talking about market share , erm Frank er was saying how we 've made considerable gains in relation to the opposition and er such an extent that in fact er it had to join up with the er er er with the other financial newspaper , but Frank would you , would you like to add ? |
| 8 | All because it had ventured on to a lake where models were banned . |
| 9 | Everyone was hungry , but there was no food to be had for it had floated out of the village shop and away . |
| 10 | On learning of the information , the brokerage house sold a large stock position which it had built up in the client 's shares . |
| 11 | If it had come out at the same time , it would have been submerged , and if it had come out afterwards it would have been seen as merely reactive . |
| 12 | It had come out of the blue : a brief note from her , saying that she had to undergo a surgical operation . |
| 13 | It had come in for the attack . |
| 14 | And it had come down to the Valve to see what the Famlio ship was doing there . |
| 15 | The move is an about-face for Rabobank , which recently announced that it had dropped out of the race for the licence . |
| 16 | She said it had got off to a slow start but then the true issues had been recognised . |
| 17 | On the shores of uncharted CCT requirements the Computer Co-ordination Section has realised that it had to come up with a leaner , meaner , faster name for the Section . |
| 18 | He had often experienced it , he assured us , but had thought it had died out with the Christian missionary influence of recent years . |
| 19 | The Morning Advertiser of 24 September reported on an in-depth survey that it had carried out into the effects of the guest beer provision . |
| 20 | Widespread evidence indicated that it had burnt down in the later second century . |
| 21 | It had backed up against the patio , completely concealing the ornate wall and steps that led down onto the gravelled walks . |
| 22 | They argued that the rapid movements involved in a star 's collapse would mean that the gravitational waves it gave off would make it ever more spherical , and by the time it had settled down to a stationary state , it would be precisely spherical . |
| 23 | For , so the story went , Pan Chao had decapitated Kan Ying there and then and sent his body back to Rome where it had lain out in the open in the great square , slowly rotting , waiting for the young Emperor , Ho Ti 's triumphal entry into the city three years later . |
| 24 | Then it had held out against a wave of patriotism among a public which was totally unaware of the reality of modern warfare , never having been touched by it . |
| 25 | Once it was called Murias , and many stories were told of how it had sunk down from the upper world to Undersea . |
| 26 | He had quite forgotten it , or , rather , it had sunk back to the dark , subterranean level from which it had sprung and on which he really did believe his father might kill him some day . |
| 27 | It had started out as a ship 's boiler but Selwyn had acquired it some years before to ensure a plentiful supply of soft water for his garden . |
| 28 | It had started out as a panacea for one failed relationship and had quickly become a relationship in itself . |
| 29 | Earlier , the socialist Congress Party for Malagasy Independence ( Parti du congrès de l'indépendance de Madagascar — AKFM-Renewal , formed after the March 1989 presidential elections — see p. 36678 ) announced on Oct. 6 that it had pulled out of the ruling coalition . |