Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Uncle Vernon was a boy a Catholic had let off a firework in the path of the brewery dray-horse and it had lumbered sideways , the streamers of orange paper fluttering from its bridle rein and drifting to the kerb . |
| 2 | Then back to the shop , with Lucy now taking the money from her pinafore pocket where it had been tied in her handkerchief , and paying for the corn ; to go on her way feeling quite a little woman of the world . |
| 3 | He had glanced in the washroom mirror and it had not been a reassuring sight . |
| 4 | It 's it 's on a little table at the end which says rate card analysis and it had T V areas Yorkshire T V North East T V and then principle main secondary local corner shop other and totals numbers in the middle . |
| 5 | The Top-selling hardback in the British book trade leading up to Christmas 1991 was Pauline Cockrill 's The Ultimate Teddy Bear Book and it had held its position among the top ten hardbacks for over two months . |
| 6 | This deal provided GM with the entry to the luxury car market that it had sought — Saab was promised access to GM 's resources and dealership network . |
| 7 | He had found a job as watchman at the council depot but it had caused him to become morose and ailing . |
| 8 | The legality of these road-blocks was not tested in court ; the police claimed to be relying both on the Road Traffic Act and on the breach of the peace power as it had been developed during the miners ' strike ( see below ) . |
| 9 | The term includes : ( i ) any income chargeable to income tax by deduction at source or otherwise ( first limb ) and any income which would have been chargeable to income tax if it had been received in the United Kingdom by a person domiciled , resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( second limb ) ( s681(1) ( a ) ) ; [ ( ii ) where the amount of the income of any body corporate has been apportioned ( ie shortfalled ) under Schedule 16 to FA 1972 or could have been so apportioned if the body corporate were incorporated and resident in any part of the United Kingdom , so much of the income of the body corporate for that year or period as is equal to the amount which has been or could have been so apportioned to the trustees of or a beneficiary under the settlement ( s681(1) ( b ) ) [ abolished in relation to income of bodies corporate for accounting periods beginning after 31 March 1989 by FA 1989 , Sched 17 , Part V ] ] . |
| 10 | You can hear that one on Planet Cannonball and it had the most incredible effect ; the voltage on it would sag so much when you cranked it up that it sounded like a volume swell pedal . |
| 11 | It had an EOP policy that it had not implemented and a proportionally higher percentage of men in ‘ leadership ’ positions . |
| 12 | Labour protest in the cities might pose no immediate security risk but it had gathered pace ominously throughout the 1870s . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , it would be naive to suggest that the draw has not presented Sardinia with an even bigger security problem than it had bargained for . |
| 14 | Presumably , therefore , internal migration exerted no more impact , and probably less , on the British population structure than it had in the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | This was attacked by Labour as dismantling the housing welfare programme as it had existed since 1945 , or perhaps since the Addison Act of 1919 . |
| 16 | You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it . |
| 17 | Like Attlee and his senior ministers in 1945 , Churchill had seen the wartime machine and it had worked . |
| 18 | Anthony Scrivener QC , for the defence , had told the judge that Goldman had such an interest in protecting the MCC share price that it had a motive to ‘ create a story ’ about his client mounting a bear raid . |
| 19 | Virtually all the members of the South Wales Area of the NUM had obeyed the strike call when it had gone out in 1984 . |
| 20 | On January 22nd Security Pacific , America 's fifth-largest bank , confirmed a newspaper report that it had held merger talks last year with 11th-ranked Wells Fargo . |
| 21 | and , there were a big family meat pie and it had |
| 22 | When privatised , the new plc was required to improve the river and the water supply as it had been hoping to do and had been prevented from doing . |
| 23 | Oh there had , had er it h erm had a marvellous water supply and it had a good sewage it had a good sewage disposal system . |
| 24 | Coun Vera Moody told Langbaurgh 's planning committee that it had been a long-standing problem with young people congregating in the shopping parade . |
| 25 | The general told a news conference that it had not been copied from the Americans , but because it was an ‘ easier , natural movement ’ . |
| 26 | Hinkley Point , Davis concluded , was technically suitable , its geology sound and it had one important advantage : there was ‘ no strong local opposition and no known County Council objection ’ . |
| 27 | Women had been on the paper since the beginning — with Maureen McGrath as news editor- and it had been women who had been providing the typesetting , the listings , the ad selling . |
| 28 | In this case , the Court of Appeal held that there had been a breach of s14(2) as the plaintiff had thought he was buying a second-hand enthusiast 's car in good condition at a fair price when in fact he was buying , at the same price , a car which no one , knowing its history ( a car insurance write-off because it had been submerged in water for over 24 hours ) , would have bought at other than at a substantially reduced price . |
| 29 | Only this was more painful than the barn floor and it had a different texture . |
| 30 | Could his same notion of ‘ agitational contemporaneity ’ work for Armchair Theatre as it had worked for North American TV drama ? |