Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pity that it had n't extended to something better than this undersized diesel-driven power supply . |
| 2 | I recollect that it had happened before to the team 's predecessors , practically on the same spot . |
| 3 | Would I one day show people this jacket and say that it had been a lovely afternoon in Central Park when he gave it to me and , in closing , would I say that as he disappeared into the trees , I never saw Oscar Wilde again ? |
| 4 | I forget whether it had wings on it or not . |
| 5 | Poland was not even in the same shape or place as it had been , and virtually the only thing that now united the Poles of the different partition experiences , religious beliefs and political outlooks was a new found sense of Polish national feeling . |
| 6 | Nicol led a token Liverpool protest that it had not crossed the line , but 12 minutes later Palace 's fans had far greater cause to howl their disapproval . |
| 7 | He would surprise everyone by getting a new speech right , but then show that it had been at the expense of other sections of dialogue . |
| 8 | I mean if it had been an electrician 's job and |
| 9 | Fortune having smiled on them , and I mean if it had n't been for a lump of expanded foam out of one of the life boats that had blown up at , if it had n't come floating past me , I mean I would have been a goner as well , but I got hold of that . |
| 10 | Fergus had not been aware of the precise moment when the Lad of the Skins drew his soul from his body with the Knife of Light , but he had known a great coldness , and a sense of desolation , and an abandonment so complete that it had overwhelmed him , and for a time he had scarcely been aware of what was happening . |
| 11 | With the usual lack of euphemism , the overseers enter the rubric ‘ Dead ’ against her name at the beginning of 1786 ; their accounts for 10 January indicate that it had cost them the grand sum of 3s. 9d. to bury three paupers : ‘ West Wife ; Titford and Robbans ’ . |
| 12 | You know if it had been in |
| 13 | Just for a moment , suppose that it had been proved beyond doubt that reincarnation was a fact and we all lived not just once but many times . |
| 14 | Plaster dust floated down from the ceiling making some people choke and one little girl shriek that it had got into her eyes . |
| 15 | Whatever happened to the case of the Sevso silver , the Roman hoard valued conservatively at £40 million , blocked in a New York court since February 1990 when Sotheby 's proudly announced it to the world , only to have the Lebanon and Yugoslavia , and later Hungary , claim that it had been removed illegally from their countries ? |
| 16 | I doubt if it had ever been correctly swung , and even our little hand-compass was more accurate . |
| 17 | I should have been discharged earlier but I had developed a cold and they insisted I stay until it had completely cleared up . |
| 18 | I have never been able to identify the photographer Alec Roberts ' establishment , but I think that it had a balcony . |
| 19 | From Robert 's description of the place I presume that it had once been an attic , for it was small , the ceiling sloped , and there was no window set into the wall . |
| 20 | ‘ From Robert 's description of the place , ’ he read , ‘ I presume that it had once been an attic , for it was small , the ceiling sloped , and there was no window set into the wall . ’ |
| 21 | I think if it had been a ghost , if the girl had been transparent and headless , I might have been less astonished . |
| 22 | Yes I think if it had a few |
| 23 | ‘ Just think if it had been polio or something like that . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Obviously , in the last few years when you look back and see that it had an impact in the field , then it becomes a possibility . ’ |
| 25 | Pigeons clock-shifted 6 hours forward should behave as if they had been taken west : a pigeon , for example , clock-shifted 6 hours in a loft at Rome and then released at midday would think that the time at home was 6.00 p.m. , deduce that it had been moved to New York , and therefore home by flying east ( if we ignore the fact that it would recognize local landmarks ) . |
| 26 | Coun George Robinson claimed that if the council had received the same level of Government support grant that it had in the 1970s , the poll tax would have been about £100 . |
| 27 | I would look at it again , and see if it had been totally destroyed . |
| 28 | He really must get back to the library and see if it had any more books on the subject . |
| 29 | unless he was looking around and see if it had been bumped in the night |
| 30 | See if it had been nice this Saturday we could 've gone and got the wheel back on the caravan but |