Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | He passed the day skulking around cafes , and when Georges met him by chance later on he confessed he 'd been beaten up in his flat because he 'd agreed to do a favour for someone and it had gone wrong . |
| 2 | Very occasionally she would come and tell me that it had been left so immaculate that she 'd had almost nothing to do and instead would remove some of the dust in the melin for us . |
| 3 | One glance at Hannah 's meadows told me that it had very real prospects because it did not have the lush , emerald green appearance of chemically fertilized land . |
| 4 | A shod note accompanied the card , informing me that it had been found on Oberleutnant Bauer 's body . |
| 5 | And when I asked her what she was doing with it , Emma — or maybe it was Sophie — told me that it had been dropped by two men , who were fighting each other behind some trees on the other side of the park . ’ |
| 6 | A month ago my bank informed me that it had been obliged to arrest £250 of my money to satisfy a court order obtained by sheriff officers . |
| 7 | So these wee things I I knew and er my staff soon found you see that well they just had to go along and do the job as it should be done , you see , and they were no good at kidding me that it had been done , for I used to examine everything that was done you see . |
| 8 | Like virgins to the sacrificial altar , they followed Molly Malone to the place where it all happened ; where Wrens must learn to live in a men 's world because now the war was nearer to them than it had ever been . |
| 9 | But it had no sooner touched them than it had instantly melted away again . |
| 10 | I am speaking now of its Belgrade side , of the old men in the Academy who wished to complete Serb history because it seemed to them that it had not been properly completed back in 1918 . |
| 11 | So , I told them that it had new blades on but they wanted it really tight , and they wanted tightening up and that so yeah . |
| 12 | At this time , too , he carefully examined and brilliantly settled the old quarrel concerning the metropolitan church of Britanny between Tours and Dol , which although it had been judged many times by his predecessors would never have been brought to a final settlement but for him . |
| 13 | He somehow managed to pound down to Kouklia on Chennaa , half by night and half by blazing day , and crossing the island was able to see for himself that it had been a more settled and prosperous year . |
| 14 | now more nearly resembled an M and a Q. The evidence was disappearing before their very eyes and , once it was gone , Harry was not sure he could convince even himself that it had ever been there . |
| 15 | There was another reason , of course , but he was not prepared to admit even to himself that it had played any part in his decision . |
| 16 | When he satisfied himself that it had n't , he turned to Larsen . |
| 17 | There remains the question whether , as the applicant contends , the only proper course for the district judge was to postpone the trials of the Barclays ( Asia ) and West L.B. matters until after the conclusion of the B.M.F.L. trial , or at least postpone them until it had become clear whether , and if so when and in what shape , the B.M.F.L. case would proceed . |
| 18 | It was a sound they knew , one often heard at night from within the dark walls of the cottages in the village , but out here it was around them and with them and part of them and it had an eerie quality as though inside the vixen some diabolic spirit was entrapped , a demon screeching its despair . |
| 19 | Without doubt the train was following them and it had passed over several fog detonators without setting them off . |
| 20 | Now he told me , that night we got so drunk , that it was because of you that it had n't happened . |
| 21 | They have high inflation , I might add to you that it had a far far more damaging effect on poor old pensioners , like myself and I 'm a war pensioner as well , poor old pensioners t to be serious , old people and people of limited means who are affected far more by the cure , the other cure that the Labour party tried that that was high inflation , mind you I 'm sure that they tried it , I think it just happened . |
| 22 | I think that it would place great strain not only on the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff but on the budget of the Public Accounts Commission itself if it had to authorise such expenditure . |
| 23 | After the war the industry was too depressed to re-equip itself as it had done in 1804 . |
| 24 | He , he was a real friendly guy and like I say he never said cheerio before he went , but one day he just painted his aircraft up with the D-day landing signs which we did n't know at the time and the next day he was gone of course it was very much top secret that was but the town just emptied of all Americans it was like a ghost town after them but it had been previously . |
| 25 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |
| 26 | It was something that it had happened at all . |
| 27 | Under the auspices of Scottish/Canadian editor Andy Gray , the paper was faced with a dilemma and one that it had great difficulty resolving , namely how a paper still steeped in show business traditions could come to terms with a new music that was deliberately and defiantly anti-commerciality and the supposed ‘ circus ’ of the pop world . |
| 28 | It was as if she had said something and it had caused a click in his mind that brought down the shutters to keep her out . |
| 29 | The defendants were in breach of their statutory duty in failing to provide safety belts but advanced evidence to show that the plaintiff would not have worn one if it had been provided . |
| 30 | and we came to look at this one and it had got an inner hall and in the position was |