Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] it had " in BNC.

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1 Looking back on that moment , it had often occurred to Shiona that it had marked the path that their future relationship was to take .
2 Touche Ross announced on Tuesday that it had formed a new international firm , Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu ( DRT ) without Deloitte UK .
3 I asked Pat if it had been love at first sight .
4 This had been quite difficult and the Gnomes had scratched their heads a good deal , because , although people did not openly refer to it , everyone knew that Flame 's father was Fael-Inis and it had meant a lot of worrisome discussions as to whether this fact ought to be openly acknowledged , or whether it might be discourteous to draw attention to it .
5 Derek Cook went close with a looping shot on 70 minutes , then blasted over from eight yards a minute later ; those misses might have demoralised Coleraine but it had the opposite effect .
6 The Uruguayan agreement consisted of a barter arrangement ( Soviet oil for Uruguayan wool ) , which suited Montevideo since it had a large surplus of wool and a shortage of foreign exchange .
7 Helen whispered to Sarah that it had been confirmed that she was pregnant and the baby was due in late November .
8 THE SALVATION Army was warned that it might be the victim of an elaborate fraud weeks before the charity revealed in February that it had been defrauded of £6.2 million .
9 During the Thatcher years Labour ditched one left-wing policy after another in an attempt to convince the voters of the southern region of England that it had ‘ moderated itself ’ .
10 He seemed to be mulling things over because he must have seen that this had not been the shock to Maggie that it had to him .
11 Following the announcement in January that it had suspended production of the Cambridge and Linx brands , Wharfedale has announced that it is to discontinue Linx , though it will undertake to maintain warranty and spare parts support .
12 Half an hour later , driven by a resolve almost beyond her comprehension , she was across the lake , informing Tilly that it had become necessary for her to take up more permanent residence at the Lodge .
13 However , a paper read at the International Bar Asssociation meeting in the summer by the Spanish lawyer on the Thyssen Foundation 's board , Rodrigo Uria , and Richard Turnor , of the firm of Allen and Overy acting for Baron Thyssen , reveals that the Baron has been concerned to keep his options open : not a single work of art was sent into Spain until it had already been granted its export licence out of Spain .
14 Petiver also bequeathed his own collection to Sloane and it had taken him many years to bring all this material into an orderly array .
15 You do n't we were u we had to use the immersion did n't we cos w we moved in in the June and Lofty and Brian said well do n't have it done cos you 're not gon na use until August so we they did it August time for us so but we did n't use Servowarm cos it had blown up , they just disconnected it for us , so we used the ho the immersion heater
16 Beveridge thought a small part of the new scheme 's income should go to the NHS as it had under the old .
17 Whether Branson had taken over Virgin Atlantic or it had overtaken him was difficult to tell .
18 A short note from a spy in Paris : Eudo Tailler 's head had been fished from the Seine where it had been thrown in a sack .
19 On Jan. 29 Iraq informed the UN that it had destroyed more than 181,000 bombs , missiles and other explosives used by the allies against it during the Gulf war .
20 However , Continental Airlines , which had entered Chapter 11 protection during 1990 , said in November that it had reduced its operating deficits .
21 The situation was especially serious in the Harer and Ogaden areas , where UN relief operations were suspended in late May until June 15 ; on June 21 the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees announced from Geneva that it had begun a food airlift to 80,000 people stranded near Gode in the southern Ogaden .
22 Each would be asked to notify the IMF within one month whether it agreed to its share as determined by the IMF ; each successor could formally accede to the IMF once it had met the formal conditions specified .
23 Last night a spokesman for Scottish Enterprise denied there was any question of either its or LiS 's abusing power and insisted that they were not actively marketing Rosyth and it had been the market that has sought out the opportunities .
24 Mason 's was one of the largest machine-works in North Sydney and it had a large labour force .
25 He had been his own man on the training run at Quantico and it had not been held against him there .
26 Forestry interests and landowners in Scotland had been lobbying the Scottish Office to draw the teeth of the NCC because it had been too successful in defending the uplands from conifers .
27 This was something of bonus for the Williams since it had learned next to nothing during practice thanks to niggling problems associated with a new car .
28 This decision was immensely helpful to Jonathan Cape since it had been and remained their intention to publish the next two volumes of the Diaries and a further volume that related to Crossman 's earlier back-bench activities .
29 He wrote Lettuce and had put the show on in Cambridge before it had come to London .
30 Life in Takrit in Iraq fifty years ago was based on similar principles for the young Saddam Hussein as it had been in Scorniceşti a generation earlier for Nicolae Ceauşescu .
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