Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses . |
| 2 | It was threatened again ( though Edward VIII made it plain that he would only comply if the Liberal government demonstrated that it had a popular mandate for abolition ) in 1909 . |
| 3 | The same was not true of the broader European Economic Community , which despite its wider brief demonstrated that it had both strength and flexibility . |
| 4 | When Xerox first embarked on benchmarking it helped that it had a Japanese partner , Fuji Xerox , that it could look to for information about Japanese practices . |
| 5 | Morocco maintained that it had " crushed " the offensive with the loss of only 45 soldiers , and a further 56 wounded , its estimate of Polisario losses amounting to 87 soldiers and a " large number " wounded or taken prisoner . |
| 6 | The Israeli government maintained that it had not encouraged Soviet Jews to settle in the occupied territories . |
| 7 | Anderson , the Clerk to the meeting , who was strongly attached to Sir John Anstruther , when he was called upon to attach the seal to the commission returning Alexander ‘ pretended that it had been abstracted from him ’ . |
| 8 | Lucy also saw the plan Doreen had in mind , but she doubted that it had much to do with married couples in search of outdoor adventure . |
| 9 | I never felt happy with it , and on two occasions found that it had worked its way down my arm and was loose around my wrist . |
| 10 | When she came to pay for the bill , she found that it had already been paid . |
| 11 | Taking up an oil-can she went out and towards the old outbuildings , to the door next to the one leading into the barn and , moving it , she found that it had n't been oiled . |
| 12 | But , much to her surprise , when the bread was baked and she took it out , she found that it had turned to a beautiful large loaf of the finest wheat flour . |
| 13 | I finally got one job offer , but when I turned up to work I found that it had been a mistake . |
| 14 | British town planning , both as a movement and as a profession , found that it had a relevance to wider questions to which it could respond . |
| 15 | Blix , in Libya for the opening of the first Arab conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy , visited Libya 's one declared nuclear reactor , the small Soviet-built Tajura research reactor outside Tripoli , and found that it had been shut down since June 1991 because spare parts were no longer available and most of the Soviet scientists who had worked there had gone home . |
| 16 | The new government was formed after consultations with seven parliamentary parties , but not with the Serbian Democratic Party ( SDS ) , which was banned on June 24 after a Sarajevo court found that it had developed into a " classic terrorist organization " , nor with the Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SPO ) . |
| 17 | I thought for two days that the machine had swallowed it and it was only on the monday morning on the way to the bank that I found that it had miraculousloy reappeared in my wallet again . |
| 18 | The Railway Gazette reported that it had become an attraction to sightseers , rather like the early days at the first Euston and at the inauguration of the great European and American stations . |
| 19 | In 1980 the Royal Commission on Legal Services reported that it had : |
| 20 | The Board reported that it had established management objectives and expressed confidence that the introduction of new management techniques , in many cases building on work in hand , would lead to significant improvements in the speed and quality of service and efficiency . |
| 21 | AFP reported that it had received the information from the Paris-based dissident group , the Federation for Democracy in China . |
| 22 | Subsequently , however , the Moscow correspondent of the daily La Stampa examined the original of the letter , which had been discovered in the KGB archives , and reported that it had been misquoted in 12 places . |
| 23 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
| 24 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
| 25 | As it passed , he realized that it had slowed down , turned around and was starting to give chase . |
| 26 | But later , I realized that it had been quite good for me and stopped me getting big-headed . |
| 27 | She took a step backwards , and suddenly he realized that it had n't been easy for her to come here . |
| 28 | In the end , to draw matters to an unhappy conclusion they all agreed that it had probably been a bin liner . |
| 29 | All agreed that it had been an exciting week , sometimes emotional and demanding but in the end enjoyable and full of the message of joy and peace . |
| 30 | Both managers agreed that it had been a classic Cup tie . |