Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second hand had stopped where it had met the pin inserted near the 55-second mark . |
| 2 | But in July Mary of Guise was able to fight back more successfully , and at the end of the month the two sides made another truce , by which Edinburgh was to be free to choose its religion , and Catholic observance was not to be reinstated where it had been suppressed . |
| 3 | His thick black curly hair seemed to grow around his head like a crown , leaving his forehead exposed where it had receded . |
| 4 | ‘ For my part I believe the African Jesus would have won if it had not been for the Dark Host . |
| 5 | Steve asked reproachfully as if he did n't want to get blamed if it had n't . |
| 6 | sparkling and looked like it had n't been touched , and I could n't believe it . |
| 7 | She was muddy , her dress torn , her hair looked like it had been combed with a hedge , but she crackled with so much internal power that she was nearly throwing off sparks . |
| 8 | ‘ At Doncaster the buffet was closed , the waiting room looked like it had n't been cleaned for three months , the staff locked themselves in a room and every time we heard an engine and dashed out it was pulling coal wagons . ’ |
| 9 | Stan might truly have forgotten if it had not been for the crash of the falling chair . |
| 10 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 11 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 12 | The aged had , nevertheless , acquired ‘ a definite status in the community … and the ‘ pauper taint ’ [ was ] removed by a system of personal thrift organized by the state' , a provision for which the Conference congratulated itself , claiming to have succeeded because it had placed national interests over and above political tactics . |
| 13 | Our use of some light music on the Fort San Programme was excused because it had been requested for those patients recovering in hospital . |
| 14 | Constable when he was giving evidence it only takes a second to fire a gun was n't that the reason that the bed was tipped because it had to be checked quickly that was n't underneath otherwise Constable may might have got shot . |
| 15 | They explained that the meeting was cancelled and everyone dispersed as it had been confirmed that the government was about to arrest all strike leaders . |
| 16 | The house looked as it had done for three centuries ; Lord Cumbermound was in no doubt that it would manage another three . |
| 17 | Overall the unit worked very well but the initial feeling that it looked really smart slowly evaporated once it had sat on the desk for an hour or two . |
| 18 | Her father 's order book was better filled than it had been for years , her mother 's health seemed good , Eileen was happy in her work as a pools clerk , and Tony and Helen were happily planning their wedding . |
| 19 | The regime was n't defeated although it had come to a dead end and the liberation movement did not conquer the situation although they made government impossible . |
| 20 | I 'd have noticed if it had been missing . |
| 21 | No doubt she would have noticed if it had been used in the interim . |
| 22 | It seemed to adapt itself to her and , in any case , she would not have noticed if it had been a giraffe . |
| 23 | I think perhaps in the Habitat-Mothercare-BHS merger things have taken rather longer to settle down than they might have done if it had been a take-over . |
| 24 | He spoke honestly , but more harshly than he would have done if it had n't been for the pain he carried . |
| 25 | I 'm sure I would have done if it had been here … |
| 26 | It allows me to savour the end of the conflict , to enjoy it in a way I could not have done if it had really happened , that is if a few words had been exchanged , spoken with difficulty through the barbed-wire taboos that separate people in so-called intimate relationships . |
| 27 | Still , he would have done if it had n't slipped his mind , and surely the intention made him culpable . |
| 28 | When I was feeling really low , I could have quit if it had n't been for everyone who 'd been following me , and that comes down to everyone here at the schools . |
| 29 | She did not know what they would have said if it had been Edmund , but it was the title now which amazed them . |
| 30 | In other words , you could ride into the ring with a home-made hard hat that would have to be accepted if it had a ‘ harness secured to the shell at more than two points ’ , but they can pull you up for wearing black jodhs ! |