Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [conj] it had " in BNC.

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1 Although her decision to do so did not ultimately affect her position as one of this country 's most important early modernists , it is my contention that it had a profound effect on the development of her art in the 1920s and , possibly , for the rest of her life .
2 I felt the side of my head where it had hit the bus shelter ; a bruise was forming and my eye felt sore .
3 My diary was in my barrel-bag and it had my cash card number in it , hidden amongst the telephone numbers under RM Essential .
4 She pushed back her hair where it had slipped from the bandanna , then tried to shrug off the tension with a sigh .
5 Yet he was also reluctant to let events stifle their friendship before it had properly begun .
6 By by the third Summer I think it had outlived its usefulness and it had become much more like a a mini-goose fair .
7 It rustled round her ears as it had done before she went into mourning .
8 There have already been suggestions that Wang 's deal with IBM to sell the RS/6000 has not lived up to expectations — in June 1991 IBM took a stake in the financially troubled company , in return for which Wang agreed to sell the AS/400 and RS/6000 machines ( CI No 1,697 ) , but late last year said that it would not be adding to its stake as it had the right to do under terms of the agreement .
9 There have already been suggestions that Wang 's deal with IBM to sell the RS/6000 has not lived up to expectations — in June 1991 IBM took a stake in the financially troubled company , in return for which Wang agreed to sell the AS/400 and RS/6000 machines ( UX No 39 ) , but late last year said that it would not be adding to its stake as it had the right to do under terms of the agreement .
10 There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence .
11 She had left the note in an addressed envelope on her desk and it had vanished .
12 It had been a mere moment of whiteness seen out of the corner of her eye but it had not moved purposefully like a horse does with a rider .
13 KITS needed much more of her attention than it had been getting recently , and was now in a disturbing financial position : it did n't look as if the company would make a profit in 1966 .
14 Poor Harry , so incongruously yoked in the forced democracy of death , whose stiffening body would receive far more attention in its dissolution than it had ever received in life .
15 She heard Ana scream her name but it had all happened so fast that she was stunned .
16 Having half expected that hair to feel crisp , to prickle beneath her palms as it had against her breasts , she was surprised to find that it felt as soft as down .
17 IMP had paid her generously , and she 'd hoarded the little money she 'd made on her flat once it had been sold , but it still had n't been enough to buy her somewhere to live .
18 Lonrho last night reiterated its claim that it had received the copy of the report in a brown paper envelope .
19 Although the then International Trade Minister John Crosbie staunchly defended the pact , the Economic Council of Canada , an independent advisory body established by the Federal Parliament , decided not to attempt to assess its impact until it had been in operation for five years .
20 In September 1915 , the UDC refused to accept their affiliation on the grounds that the UDC had less to gain from any activity the Fellowship might undertake on its behalf than it had to lose from being associated with the doctrine of non-resistance .
21 It was a continuation , in effect , of the 1930s Special Areas policy ( which had received further impetus from the Barlow Report on industrial location ) and from the carry-over of wartime controls which gave the government far more effective power in its sphere than it had ever possessed [ Brown , 1972 ] .
22 It would also give time for Rune to inveigle her into taking up their affair where it had left off .
23 It is difficult to ignore this combined perspective on Anglo-Saxon society in the early eighth century and its implication that it had entered ‘ a highly unstable phase ’ .
24 That 's still a fair maximum for this car , and even with a lot of miles under its belt since it had any major attention ( and a tendency to hang-up slightly in second gear ) it will still pull 12.2secs to 60mph .
25 Train services on the Esk Valley line were delayed for a short time and the Sprinter train was allowed to continue its journey after it had been examined by experts .
26 She sometimes thought it had saved her life as it had undoubtedly saved Camille 's .
27 It was better this way ; somehow she would manage to see Dana before Roman did , and then she would leave and take up her life as it had been before she had met Roman almost a week ago .
28 He would want to know the ins and outs of it , to seek out the deep dark passages of her mind , the intricacies of her life as it had been before .
29 I remember once when she was climbing into bed in her Waaf-issue blue striped pyjamas , a cheeky little field mouse popped up from between her sheets where it had evidently been nesting , and streaked across the hut to disappear down a convenient crack in the wooden wall .
30 Robbie sat up , wide awake , but the dream was as vivid in her memory as it had been while she was experiencing it .
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