Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I was often called Hamlet because I so resembled my father 's appearance in his most famous film , the ‘ Coronation ’ Hamlet , so named because it had been released in Coronation year . |
| 4 | In re Polemis [ 1921 ] 3 KB 560 was wrongly decided because it had held that once liability was established , a person was responsible for the direct consequences of his acts even though these were not foreseeable . |
| 5 | On into the Room Without a Name they had passed and through to the room it communicated with , the Room of Astonishment , so called because it had a cupboard in it with a little staircase inside that wound its way up into the loft . |
| 6 | The big boost came when the recombinant DNA programme in the States suddenly folded before it had ever really got going . |
| 7 | By the end of the nineteenth-century , the biological model of sexuality was so constructed that it had become perfectly coherent to argue that excessive sexual desire in a woman was pathological . |
| 8 | ‘ Another device fell onto a huge pile of clay , and was only extinguished after it had fired the clay solid . ’ |
| 9 | The jousting could not be started and the close combat was soon abandoned as it had become farcical , contestants falling down when they tried to wield their weapons . |
| 10 | After a few years , the conclusion was reached that the experiment had not worked as it had been expected to , and cuts in educational spending soon brought it to an end . |
| 11 | No organization claimed responsibility and it was widely speculated that it had been a mistake by ETA . |
| 12 | Greece has always stressed that it had no designs on Macedonian territory and it has succeeded in getting its neighbours to say the same . |
| 13 | It was the only object , apart from the books , which reflected a personal taste ; Dalgliesh hardly supposed that it had been provided by a Government agency . |
| 14 | UNITA , which had unilaterally downgraded the status of its delegation shortly before the talks , further claimed that it had already made concessions including the recognition of the ruling MPLA as a political party , and of President dos Santos as head of state . |
| 15 | The ideological claim was that the Soviet Union was , by definition , more advanced since it had a deeper experience of socialism , but that of course is nonsense . |
| 16 | Unionists of the time would scarcely have recognized the terms of the debate , for in 1922 the party was still embroiled with Ireland and the House of Lords , held a smaller share of the popular vote than ever before , and was still split as it had been since 1902 ; few Unionists would have seen the war as a turning-point for the better in the party fortunes . |
| 17 | He sought resolve and found a little and went to lie down on the bed to read a paperback of Anna Karenina , which he had always fancied because it had a scene on a railway platform . |
| 18 | The Vietnamese government had always maintained that it had returned all US POWs to the US government shortly after the signing of the Paris peace agreements in 1973 . |
| 19 | But the explosive charge was too large and the chapel was so badly damaged that it had to be pulled down . |
| 20 | But Spain would never again be as politically and economically isolated as it had been between 1945 and 1950 . |
| 21 | The Halifax , Britain 's biggest building society , also disclosed that it had set aside a £20m provision against its loans to the collapsed London docklands developer Kentish Property Group . |
| 22 | The seam had been so thoroughly picked that it had a sharp edge . |
| 23 | Iliescu later reported that it had been agreed to establish a dialogue involving the NSF and representatives of the 20 political parties now in existence [ These round table talks will be covered in the February News Digest . ] |
| 24 | Love also revealed that it had been decided not to include Iain Philip and Alastair Storie , as they had been playing overseas and it was a better option to give the others some match practice . |
| 25 | The Old Rectory was only a larger , less pretentious version of Sunnybank — ridiculously named since it had stood on level ground and no sun ever seemed to penetrate its windows . |
| 26 | While the government later indicated that it had merely given drafting assistance , it is abundantly clear that its influence on the Bill was much more than one would normally associate with drafting assistance . |
| 27 | The Democratic Party also announced that it had selected Dr Sali Berisha , party leader , as presidential candidate , making him Mr Alia 's most likely successor . |
| 28 | The RCC later announced that it had decided to " return the part and the branch , Kuwait , to the whole and origin , Iraq , in a comprehensive and eternal merger unity " . |
| 29 | On Oct. 2 Bank of America also admitted that it had contravened central bank regulations and diverted large deposits of public funds to securities transactions . |
| 30 | Bank of America on Aug. 28 also denied that it had violated banking guidelines or issued or accepted fraudulent bankers ' receipts . |