Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was what it was , a fit , during which something in her burst and she lost control of herself — or perhaps it had had something to do with the terrible heat . |
| 2 | Or perhaps it had been clear a long time before that . |
| 3 | Or perhaps it had been a present from a — he swallowed , feeling sweaty with embarrassment — from a lover or something . |
| 4 | Or perhaps it had . |
| 5 | She seemed to have completely forgotten her rage , or perhaps it had been channelled into a more dangerous , calculating form , thought Isabel in dread . |
| 6 | Or perhaps it had never existed . |
| 7 | Ten days on the ocean gave him a few chances to visit the cabins of single women , but until they arrived in New York , there were no places to escape once the liaison ended , however passionately , half-heartedly , or ephemerally it had begun . |
| 8 | He had shown , or so it had seemed to her at the time , genuine concern for others . |
| 9 | There had been the lot , or so it had seemed , at Cambridge : socialists , communists , socialites , die-hard dinner-jacketed Pitt Club Tories , Bohemians , Christians , lacrosse and rugger players , sloggers , poets , actors , Leavisites , wits , bores , eccentrics , homosexuals ; to Cambridge they flocked , from ancient grammar-schools , upstart grammar-schools , progressive schools , public schools , private schools , even from private tutors in the South of France . |
| 10 | Thus , recognition by Her Majesty 's Government was the decisive matter and the courts had no role save to inquire of the executive whether or not it had recognised the government in question . |
| 11 | Other recommendations included the complete withdrawal of allegations against detainees held without trial with a " clear and unequivocal apology for the wrongs they have suffered " and financial compensation for all victims of abuse whether or not it had been proved that they were agents of the South African government . |
| 12 | The data was submitted on a confidential basis , because of the possibility of future publication , and so it is not possible to ascertain whether or not it had any influence on the deliberations of the Review body , but their conclusions on the quality of post-graduate geological research undertaken in Dundee and Strathclyde Universities were exactly in line with the quantitative findings described later . |
| 13 | The defendants argued that deformity would have occurred as a result of the injury , whether or not it had been properly diagnosed on the first trip to hospital . |
| 14 | Murder or not it had to go on , and next day it did , Rose saw to that , although she was not herself . |
| 15 | The 375 years since it was unearthed seems to be short when compared to the 900 years or more it had lain buried . |
| 16 | That should please the farmers — and Iris ; for a couple of weeks or more it had been dry and unusually mild and the land was thirsty . |
| 17 | Sooner or later it had to be . " |
| 18 | Or maybe it had n't been so pathetic . |
| 19 | A Hoechst spokesman said the fumes were of a concentrated form of sulphuric acid which is irritating to the eyes and throat ; he said it was unclear how much material had leaked or how it had happened . |
| 20 | In the classical theory of gravity , which is based on real space-time , there are only two possible ways the universe can behave : either it has existed for an infinite time , or else it had a beginning at a singularity at some finite time in the past . |
| 21 | Equally the buyer will not be able to sue for non-delivery unless he was ready and willing to pay or else it had been agreed that he could have credit . |
| 22 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 23 | Weighing it all up , Ramsay came to the conclusion that the chances of capturing the usurper at this stage were all but non-existent , and that their wisest course was to return at once with his dire news to the main Scots array in Annandale or wherever it had reached by now . |
| 24 | He speculated that perhaps it had been years , and he had simply forgotten . |
| 25 | He had waited for her in the forests that fringed Tara , his mind filled with light and hope , his body more fiercely aware than ever it had been in his entire life . |
| 26 | Mr Justice Jowitt told the jury that previously it had been shown in cases of alleged sexual misconduct that women may be tempted to exaggerate or fabricate . |
| 27 | Over the past year she had had various painful illnesses and eventually it had been diagnosed as a recurrence of cancer . |
| 28 | And so it had begun … |
| 29 | And so it had proved . |
| 30 | Frustratingly , however , the IPG was unable to view these publications in advance and so it had little idea as to how useful they would be . |