Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it have [verb] " 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 | His thick black curly hair seemed to grow around his head like a crown , leaving his forehead exposed where it had receded . |
| 3 | Whatever criticisms may be made of the STV there is no denying that it has proved viable in its own fashion in twenty-two general elections in the Republic of Ireland . |
| 4 | But in the immediate wake of the October 19 crash , IBM 's most serious rival , Comdisco , disclosed that it had lost $100m in a business that had nothing to do with its main occupation of leasing and trading IBM equipment . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | How would it know that it had to lose weight ? |
| 7 | It will soon give a ‘ bleep ’ to let you know that it has added another con to your growing pile , another contribution to that bulging pocket that will soon hold your double helping of pocketmoney … |
| 8 | Mr. Bill Walker : The Hon. Gentleman must have studied what has happened in the company referred to , so he will know that it has used the assets to buy new buses . |
| 9 | That tone is your successful switching tone , you will get that with most of the facilities that you put on the system , just to let you know that it 's worked alright . |
| 10 | I recollect that it had happened before to the team 's predecessors , practically on the same spot . |
| 11 | The first rule of surviving a disaster , I had written , was to accept that it had happened and make the best of what was left . |
| 12 | ‘ And now it 's a wonderful feeling to know that it has enabled me to look at the top guys knowing there are only a few ahead of me . |
| 13 | Jan. 27 USC broadcasts statement on Radio Mogadishu announcing that it had taken over the government . |
| 14 | If one were subsequently to receive a report that when the event occurred , the sun had set , one would be able to infer that it had taken place at exactly 12.00 midnight . |
| 15 | The company previously claimed that it had used biodegradable cardboard packaging since 1957 . |
| 16 | The ‘ vehicle ’ is footsteered and some have claimed that it has helped their gybing tremendously . |
| 17 | But if you are working from a consultancy or from an office situated at some distance from the manufacturing units you will need to organise a system for sending a product out and checking that it has gone . |
| 18 | It was a pleasure to discover that it had escaped the sort of wholesale restoration so commonly carried out in the earlier part of this century . |
| 19 | Though when the meal was ended and they went outside it was to discover that it had begun to drizzle . |
| 20 | It is a good idea to turn the main stopcock off and on once or twice each year to keep its mechanism free and not wait for an emergency to discover that it has jammed open . |
| 21 | Immediate matters arising from the appointment of Louis Gerstner as the next chairman and chief executive of IBM Corp : Gerstner says he made three IBM executive decisions — all of them undisclosed — during the five-block walk from the Midtown Manhattan Hilton where the announcement of his appointment was made and IBM 's Madison Avenue offices ; and while many say that it has looked to be that way for most of this year , it seems that for a couple of days , IBM really will be leaderless , because John Akers says he will resign at today 's board meeting , and Gerstner is not due to take up his posts until Thursday . |
| 22 | He went into the college hall , and registered himself for matriculation among a rowdy assembly of students younger than himself ; and came out into the street to find that it had started to rain . |
| 23 | Asked to explain why he had burst into the bedroom of his landlady 's attractive teenage daughter , Tom away the towel with which she was drying herself and started a close fingertip search of her backside , Berkas explained that he had left a valuable foreign stamp soaking in the bath and returned to find that it had disappeared . |
| 24 | I feared to find that it had changed , as many had told me , beyond recognition . |
| 25 | When the overconstrained design problem is viewed in this way it is not surprising to find that it has led most of the thinking of CAD systems . |
| 26 | When Margaret returns once more to Helstone , educated in reality by the industrial north , she is still grieved to find that it has disappeared and that a new one , tidy and respectable , has been built in its place . |
| 27 | This year we decided at the AGM to visit the Llangollen Railway , having learnt from the railway press that it has made rapid progress in the last three years . |
| 28 | A Geneva-based consultancy hired by the United Nations to investigate the allegations subsequently reported that it had found no evidence that any hazardous waste had been exported to Somalia . |
| 29 | Those who suffer from PMS less frequently reported that it has got better with time . |
| 30 | One has the odd title of the Boulevard du B.A.B. , revealing that it has taken over the line of the old tramway , the Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz ; the other , further back from the coast , is the N10 , once the crowded highway along which French motorists hurtled into northern Spain but now a gentler place to drive , the motorway having supplanted it . |