Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A shod note accompanied the card , informing me that it had been found on Oberleutnant Bauer 's body . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But it had no sooner touched them than it had instantly melted away again . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Without doubt the train was following them and it had passed over several fog detonators without setting them off . |
| 14 | Now he told me , that night we got so drunk , that it was because of you that it had n't happened . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And it occurred to him that it had almost always been like that : he the serious and thoughtful one , and the one he loved mostly careless and unconcerned . |
| 18 | The plaque was unadorned , the letters deeply carved in an elegant script reminiscent of Eric Gill , and Dalgliesh remembered his aunt telling him that it had been placed there by previous owners in the late twenties , when the cottage was originally extended . |
| 19 | It was raining when Patrick Montgomery Lundy , followed by Jane Bradley , stepped onto Irish soil , and he suddenly remembered his mother telling him that it had been raining on the day she had first come to Ireland , in the May of 1898 . |
| 20 | She could n't tell him that it had aroused her ; that the smarting of her breasts and belly and buttocks had combined to generate an absurd pleasure ; that the gentle scourging of her flesh had stimulated a tide of salaciousness ; that she was enjoying it . |
| 21 | His first impression was that somebody had started to construct a small harbour , but then he saw a shallow groove cut in the face of the cliff which must at one time have accommodated a pipe , and it occurred to him that it had probably been a sewage outfall . |
| 22 | ‘ I told him that it had been great . ’ |
| 23 | Later in the day she was busy again when the Intelligence Officer informed her that it had become necessary for a UDR soldier and his family to move from their present house . |
| 24 | As Agnes hurried down the street it came to her that it had been tactless of her to talk about life being dull and with no bright future ; for had they any bright future ? |
| 25 | She said she had seen the programme and wondered if it had spoiled anything for me , but I was able to reassure her that it had improved my life . |
| 26 | Bathed in the bright sun of Italy and glittering with social and commercial success , it seemed to her that it had always been menaced by dark shadows , many of which , Constance sometimes thought , had sprung up almost to punish her for leaving this remote area so early in her adult life . |
| 27 | After the ceremony , she and Ludovico went to Chiesa Santo Spirito , at the end of their road , where Ludovico had arranged for them to be blessed , explaining to her that it had no religious significance and did not endanger her non-Catholic soul . |
| 28 | The teacher , by now worn down by Mrs Singh 's refusal to accept Jeetinder 's limitations , told her that it had been written by ‘ a highly intelligent girl ’ . |
| 29 | He did n't tell her that he had been so worried about her that it had been hard to concentrate on sharing the hurt with Marcus , on blocking out the punishment–hey put him through . |
| 30 | Fergus had been so intensely aware of every separate part of her that it had been a pain and a torment . |