Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chevron 's swift counter-attack came a day after Pennzoil announced it had spent $2.1 billion to build up a nine per cent share stake in Chevron and said it planned to continue investing in the oil giant as a passive shareholder . |
| 2 | The board revealed it had established a sub-committee ‘ to progress the recruitment of a group chief executive from outside the Barclays Group ’ . |
| 3 | Handicapper Ted Kelly admitted it had been a difficult task rating Vintage Crop . |
| 4 | As Pipelline went to press LASMO announced it had signed an agreement for the sale of its remaining Australian interests to SAGASCO Resources Ltd for Aus$10 million [ £4.8 million ] . |
| 5 | Yesterday the International Squash Players Association confirmed it had received the $15,000 ( £9,400 ) withheld after Jansher 's walkout from the World Open 's official dinner . |
| 6 | At the end of May 1792 the College decided it had no further occasion for the service of Blaine , who had been assisting Vial as demonstrator in anatomy . |
| 7 | To be sure of providing physicists with details of the world beyond the standard model , the SSC 's designers decided it had to be able to make particles with masses of one trillion electron volts ( 1TeV ) . |
| 8 | Over the years Solihull has perfected the art of stepping-stone marketing — improving models just when the opposition thought it had caught up . |
| 9 | Profitable as the business was , the brothers knew it had a limited lifespan . |
| 10 | Paris-based computer services and distribution group Metrologie International SA said it had an operating loss in the first quarter of 1993 due to a drop in activity and pressures to reduce gross margins : the loss was equivalent to about $3.6m and turnover on a like-for-like basis fell 15.9% to $73.5m . |
| 11 | The department said it had been decided not to invite competing tenders for Norcross because the contract award , worth between £17 million and £20 million over five years , followed so quickly the tendering exercise for Livingston that competition would have been ‘ unlikely to yield any improvement in value for money ’ . |
| 12 | The beater said it had happened years ago in a quarrying accident . |
| 13 | The agent said it had sold a commercial garage in Middlesbrough to a named company . |
| 14 | The association said it had no choice but to shoot hundreds more emaciated Merino sheep among a flock of 72,000 kept on land capable of sustaining only 17,000 sheep . |
| 15 | McKinsey said it had several programmes in place to build the information technology capability of its consulting staff , and Information Consulting could accelerate the process . |
| 16 | ‘ The match went ahead although most Boro supporters wished it had n't — they were trounced 4–1 . |
| 17 | The United Nations said it had arranged a ceasefire between the government and Unita on Sunday night , but it was largely ignored . |
| 18 | Lord Morison said it had been argued that the unique and novel attempt by the Mullan family to establish something which the Crown had failed to do in a criminal case raised questions of general importance . |
| 19 | Regional Official Walter Ievers said it had been confirmed that schools are under no statutory obligation to report to parents of children finishing primary seven and third form in secondary and grammar schools in the way the Department has indicated in the recent Parents Guide . |
| 20 | The Bosnian Serb high command denied it had attacked the town . |
| 21 | Jacobsen flew back to Washington for the ritual photocall with the president at the White House on 7 November and when reporters asked Reagan about the arms deal story the president said it had ‘ no foundation ’ . |
| 22 | While Nottinghamshire said it had messages of support from local authorities across the country , legal experts sided with the Appeal Court . |
| 23 | The DoE believed it had the decision to join the 30 per cent Club ‘ in the bag ’ and briefed journalists to that effect . |
| 24 | But John McQueen learnt it had more serious effects . |
| 25 | The issue erupted again when asbestos spilled in the factory over the first weekend in June and Raybestos management announced it had closed down that section of the factory . |
| 26 | The Nuneaton and Bedworth Council claimed it had received letters of protest from residents opposed to a trial scheme to allow fishing on three lakes in the borough . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , at Verdun when the battle began it had been outmatched — in numbers alone — by nearly five to one . |
| 28 | The city council decided it had to be cleaned up , the union demanded exceptional payments deadlock . |
| 29 | And so began a friendship that before Ellie knew it had become a courtship . |
| 30 | Cosla complained it had no extra resources to meet the requirement , and suggested the registers would be unworkable , raising complicated questions of liability if land was found to be contaminated . |