Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the shores of uncharted CCT requirements the Computer Co-ordination Section has realised that it had to come up with a leaner , meaner , faster name for the Section . |
| 2 | Sabre has stressed that it had no formal link with Clydesale Office Equipment , which has now closed down . |
| 3 | This had been the story that he 'd used when it had n't seemed so serious , and it was the story that he was sticking with now . |
| 4 | I was very very pleased to see that a lot of you have tried to do your join up handwriting after a bit of practice we 'd had and it had come out really really nicely , well done . |
| 5 | We should have known we could n't prolong it once we 'd agreed that it had to end . ’ |
| 6 | I do n't know how I 'd 've coped if it had n't been for my mum . |
| 7 | I suppose I 'd have heard if it had n't . ’ |
| 8 | Now , by the chaos of war , and because the exiled Napoleon had returned to France and thrust a new period of battle on Europe , Sharpe was a lieutenant-colonel in the 5th Belgian Light Dragoons , a regiment he had never met , had no wish to meet , and would not have recognized if it had formed line and charged him . |
| 9 | ‘ For my part I believe the African Jesus would have won if it had not been for the Dark Host . |
| 10 | Stan might truly have forgotten if it had not been for the crash of the falling chair . |
| 11 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 12 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He spoke honestly , but more harshly than he would have done if it had n't been for the pain he carried . |
| 16 | I 'm sure I would have done if it had been here … |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Still , he would have done if it had n't slipped his mind , and surely the intention made him culpable . |
| 19 | She did not know what they would have said if it had been Edmund , but it was the title now which amazed them . |
| 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 | And I 'll tell you somethin' else : your mother would n't have died if it had n't been for that man . ’ |
| 24 | Her mouth tight , she hurried into the cottage and slammed the door , but that one brief glance had been more than enough for her to take in the fact that he 'd removed his shirt as though quite impervious to the chill wind that made everyone else shiver , and was digging over the colonel 's vegetable patch with an economy of movement that she might have admired if it had been anyone else but him . |
| 25 | ‘ I should have thought that it had a hell of a lot to do with you . ’ |
| 26 | He is bound to say this , indeed , for if we considered only the positive consequences of an action , and not those which would have occurred if it had not been done , one could not count in the suffering which an action prevented in its favour , which would be absurd . |
| 27 | Not that I 'd have cared if it had gone up . |
| 28 | After what seemed like ages we popped out of the cloud and confirmed our dead-reckoned position as overhead the airfield of Vila Real , where we would have landed but it had no avgas . |
| 29 | which the House of Lords would have exercised if it had been asked to do so but had not in fact been so asked , Berry ( No. 2 ) would have been a very easy case for the Court of Appeal to deal with , but there is no indication that it found Berry ( No. 2 ) to be so simple . |
| 30 | ‘ We probably would n't have signed if it had been just SGI , ’ Ousley says . |