Example sentences of "[prep] it have [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A garbled version of it had somehow reached England . |
| 2 | But most of it had already escaped the princes ' grasp in the tenth century ; in the course of the eleventh , it passed squarely into the hands of local castellans , who exacted fines and imposed penalties on their peasants with remorseless vigour . |
| 3 | Before the camp was liberated the senior British colonel in command of it had already chosen a temporary hiding place for the prisoners . |
| 4 | What little remained of it had never rejoiced in the calm self-assurance of the French , who had equated their race with civilization . |
| 5 | The extreme delight of it had almost shocked her ; it was her one personal extravagance . |
| 6 | Britain 's membership of it has already done the untold harm to the British economy that I described in Chapter 5 ; the quicker the Government decides to abandon the objective of re-entering the ERM and to take back permanent control of the economy the better . |
| 7 | ‘ But none of it has ever done any good , ’ Graham 's father says . |
| 8 | Seven years later , my experience of further education has grown and my perceptions of it have inevitably changed . |
| 9 | Nothing like it had ever happened at UNACO . |
| 10 | All the traffic looks shiny like it 's just rained , or they all been polished . |
| 11 | If this does n't happen it 's almost like it 's never happened any other way |
| 12 | The result is that there is no coherent and sustained statement of the classical Greek or Athenian case for democracy ; while the case against it has almost monopolized the attention of posterity . |
| 13 | But health officials are worried that the drug culture which sprung up with it has now reached epidemic proportions … and the Swindon area is as hard hit as anywhere . |
| 14 | But rather that the time and thought put into it had somehow polluted me . |
| 15 | Just and get bigger shake up it 's ever had in it life who persecutes life , it 's coming now , we come as old as we are . |
| 16 | He disputed suggestions that his own redistributive mock Budget at the outset of the election campaign may have contributed to the party 's defeat and expressed concern that those who would have gained from it had apparently failed to heed the message . |
| 17 | They say noise from it has dramatically changed their lives . |
| 18 | The transaction described in it had never occurred , though smaller versions had . |
| 19 | Tusser called it the goef , and we can be sure that , like the word , the design of the barn itself and the work that went on in it had hardly changed from the sixteenth century to within living memory . |
| 20 | and that , that would be because your , your twenty million pounds in it has really got no erm , had got no independent justification on arbitrary limiting a number of people able to compete , but what , what if you 're able to satisfy everybody that you had to have some pay out capital , twenty million is ridiculous |
| 21 | The small pain which had been inflicted upon it had only served somehow to make it stronger . |
| 22 | Its creator 's reaction to it had merely added to my fright . |
| 23 | Quite frankly , we 're worried how much further down it 's still got to go . |
| 24 | It 's got ta it 's almost got a chlorine sound in its name . |
| 25 | She must persuade him of her good intentions — for it had never crossed her mind that she would not repay him — but she must also try to convince him of the seriousness of her situation and persuade him to grant her a bit of leeway . |