Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [conj] it have " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We should have known we could n't prolong it once we 'd agreed that it had to end . ’ |
| 4 | The third practice had overspent because it had taken over a smaller practice after the preparatory work on budget setting had been completed , and it had not been able to make an accurate estimate of prescribing costs for the 1300 patients involved . |
| 5 | The second hand had stopped where it had met the pin inserted near the 55-second mark . |
| 6 | The Colony , which had its legal status removed in February [ see p. 38002 ] , was still operating and former inmates had reported that it had been a centre for child sexual abuse and slave labour , and a torture centre for Pinochet 's DINA secret police following the 1973 military coup . |
| 7 | Word of total closure came just one week after the society had revealed that it had taken a controversial first step toward meeting its operating costs with a loan of $1.5 million from Sotheby 's secured by $3.5 million worth of works from its vast collections . |
| 8 | A spokeswoman for the ministry said that it had seen a draft of the report earlier in the year and had felt that it had made ‘ inappropriate use ’ of the generalised derived limits . |
| 9 | Caroline had disappeared but it had been shown that it was nothing to do with him . |
| 10 | In November Waterstones had declared that it had terminated the concession , giving six months ' notice . |
| 11 | I was paid good money for 3½ years to do something about the problems of North Shields and a particular component of doing something was describing what things were like , giving an account of how they had come to be like this , and attempting to understand why the process had happened as it had . |
| 12 | This was n't supposed to happen — but then , nothing today had happened as it had been supposed to . |
| 13 | In Stenhouse Australia Ltd v Phillips [ 1974 ] AC 391 the restraint of trade clause was part of an agreement made between the parties after employment had ceased as it had been in Wyatt 's case . |
| 14 | The activity at the back of the car had ceased and it had fallen silent . |
| 15 | Whereas Zen knew that the truth prevailed , if at all , only after so much time had passed that it had become meaningless , like a senile prisoner who can safely be released , his significance forgotten , his friends dead , a babbling idiot . |
| 16 | Faldo , who had holed a motorway of putts in the final round , holed yet another on that green , up went his arms in a triumphant ‘ V ’ and an Augustan decade had ended as it had begun , with a European as Master . |
| 17 | It had survived because it had got a metallic thread running through it . |