Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [conj] it have " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , I told them that it had new blades on but they wanted it really tight , and they wanted tightening up and that so yeah . |
| 2 | One glance at Hannah 's meadows told me that it had very real prospects because it did not have the lush , emerald green appearance of chemically fertilized land . |
| 3 | And when I asked her what she was doing with it , Emma — or maybe it was Sophie — told me that it had been dropped by two men , who were fighting each other behind some trees on the other side of the park . ’ |
| 4 | An engineering expert in stress told me that it has recently been discovered that two pieces of metal , indistinguishable unless subjected to sophisticated tests , react differently to precisely the same amount of stress . |
| 5 | The poem describes how ‘ even when he was in France ’ — in the context of the poem it is reasonable to presume the front line trenches — ‘ the sun still woke him as it had at home ’ . |
| 6 | He found a rusty man-trap in a cupboard — an evil contraption of chains and springs and teeth — and assured her that it had taken the leg off more than one poacher in its day . |
| 7 | ‘ I told him that it had been great . ’ |
| 8 | The teacher , by now worn down by Mrs Singh 's refusal to accept Jeetinder 's limitations , told her that it had been written by ‘ a highly intelligent girl ’ . |
| 9 | She told her that it had been suggested to her that she should remain behind to rest , but she did not consider her darling Thomas would have approved of this . |
| 10 | I sat cross-legged just by the blaze , staring into it from up-wind until it was out and only the metal of the Black Destroyer remained , then I took the sooty skeleton and buried it where it had been ruined , at the bottom of the hill . |
| 11 | A month ago my bank informed me that it had been obliged to arrest £250 of my money to satisfy a court order obtained by sheriff officers . |
| 12 | Later in the day she was busy again when the Intelligence Officer informed her that it had become necessary for a UDR soldier and his family to move from their present house . |
| 13 | But it had no sooner touched them than it had instantly melted away again . |
| 14 | Despite Arnold Palmer 's memorable 1962 — when once again the golden hat-trick eluded him as it had in 1960 , with Open Championship and US Masters success , and only losing the US Open in a playoff with Jack Nicklaus — he had a quiet Open in 1963 . |
| 15 | How I quite enjoyed it but it 's got deep bunkers . |
| 16 | When he satisfied himself that it had n't , he turned to Larsen . |
| 17 | This comforted him as it had comforted him half a dozen times this afternoon , but his mind remained basically uneasy . |
| 18 | He suddenly captured her hand and placed it where it had been before , over the steady beat of his heart . |
| 19 | Harry watched it until it had turned into Emlyn Square , then began walking unsteadily in the same direction . |
| 20 | The term ‘ community ’ in this context meant something because it had been experienced as such . |
| 21 | Brian had not merely hated the cockerel but feared it since it had got through the fence and bitten him on the leg . |
| 22 | and then did it and it 's worked so they 've , they 've stretched now |
| 23 | First he reminded us that it had taken him no time at all to find the Ardakkean thief — an off-world technician working in one of the phetam refining plants . |
| 24 | washing thing I said someone and it 's gone ! dun n it ? |
| 25 | wha what 's what would your opinion be as as a church-comer would you be as we do n't know whether the Archbishop really said it cos it 's printed in the Sun for heaven 's sake . |
| 26 | Finally , it ended it as it had began , with a problem of communication . |