Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] it had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back on that moment , it had often occurred to Shiona that it had marked the path that their future relationship was to take . |
| 2 | Touche Ross announced on Tuesday that it had formed a new international firm , Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu ( DRT ) without Deloitte UK . |
| 3 | This had been quite difficult and the Gnomes had scratched their heads a good deal , because , although people did not openly refer to it , everyone knew that Flame 's father was Fael-Inis and it had meant a lot of worrisome discussions as to whether this fact ought to be openly acknowledged , or whether it might be discourteous to draw attention to it . |
| 4 | Following the announcement in January that it had suspended production of the Cambridge and Linx brands , Wharfedale has announced that it is to discontinue Linx , though it will undertake to maintain warranty and spare parts support . |
| 5 | Half an hour later , driven by a resolve almost beyond her comprehension , she was across the lake , informing Tilly that it had become necessary for her to take up more permanent residence at the Lodge . |
| 6 | Petiver also bequeathed his own collection to Sloane and it had taken him many years to bring all this material into an orderly array . |
| 7 | You do n't we were u we had to use the immersion did n't we cos w we moved in in the June and Lofty and Brian said well do n't have it done cos you 're not gon na use until August so we they did it August time for us so but we did n't use Servowarm cos it had blown up , they just disconnected it for us , so we used the ho the immersion heater |
| 8 | Whether Branson had taken over Virgin Atlantic or it had overtaken him was difficult to tell . |
| 9 | On Jan. 29 Iraq informed the UN that it had destroyed more than 181,000 bombs , missiles and other explosives used by the allies against it during the Gulf war . |
| 10 | However , Continental Airlines , which had entered Chapter 11 protection during 1990 , said in November that it had reduced its operating deficits . |
| 11 | The situation was especially serious in the Harer and Ogaden areas , where UN relief operations were suspended in late May until June 15 ; on June 21 the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees announced from Geneva that it had begun a food airlift to 80,000 people stranded near Gode in the southern Ogaden . |
| 12 | Each would be asked to notify the IMF within one month whether it agreed to its share as determined by the IMF ; each successor could formally accede to the IMF once it had met the formal conditions specified . |
| 13 | This was something of bonus for the Williams since it had learned next to nothing during practice thanks to niggling problems associated with a new car . |
| 14 | He wrote Lettuce and had put the show on in Cambridge before it had come to London . |
| 15 | The range of opinions expressed by nobles on the provincial committees made plain to St Petersburg that it had to act alone . |
| 16 | In reconstructing the circumstances of the crash , the Mexican investigators concluded that the Falcon was actually 40 miles further away from ACA VOR than it had reported — i.e. , it was at 75 nmi when the pilot reported 35 nmi . |
| 17 | I 'd just had an idea for a way of doing Lear and it had brought me luck . |
| 18 | He leapt forward and slashed at Yuan 's neck , a circular cut which would have beheaded the Manchu if it had connected . |
| 19 | Iraq demanded on Sept. 26 that Kuwait be expelled from the NAM because it had signed a defence agreement with the United States , a move which it claimed compromised Kuwait 's neutrality . |
| 20 | It was achieved in a mood of almost stunned boredom amongst English opinion , confident that the dismantling of the United Kingdom as it had endured since 1707 or 1536 would not in fact take place . |
| 21 | In 1798 the threat of military invasion from Napoleonic France had only just ebbed when the Bishop of Durham announced to a startled House of Lords that it had come to his attention that the only reason the enemy forces had backed away from military invasion was because they had hit on a more sinister method of bringing Britannia to heel . |
| 22 | A Swapo representative , Mr Harmut Ruppel , announced on Wednesday that it had agreed to this , but acknowledged that this was in exchange for an executive president . |
| 23 | But also there 's a the Soviet Union used to grow a lot of its own tea , but it grew it round Chernobyl and it had to start importing a lot of tea . |
| 24 | After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned . |
| 25 | The main target for the Auld Report 's criticisms was the LEA because it had interpreted its responsibilities in terms largely confined to the provision of resources . |
| 26 | Formerly Prime Minister in the Croatian government formed by the right-wing Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) in May , he had been elected to the Presidency by the Croatian Assembly in August after it had recalled the communist Stipe Suvar . |
| 27 | Annexation showed that the English government had much more power to take action outside Europe than it had possessed in the first half of the century . |
| 28 | In the wake of the 1848 revolutions St Petersburg appeared to have acquired a larger say in the affairs of central Europe than it had possessed for a generation . |
| 29 | It is true that the problem of the balance of power between social classes and organs represented a more vital problem in modern Europe than it had done in Polybius ' Rome . |
| 30 | There amidst the general gloom was a report from Hong Kong Land that it had sold a property in the colony achieving a profit of approximately £273m . |