Example sentences of "and [noun] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The confusion over the Restriction of Ribbon Development Act 1935 did not help : there were uncertainties between the Ministries of Transport and Health , delay over necessary action and ineffectiveness once it had been taken . |
| 2 | What Labour needs above all is the network of working-class activists , sympathisers and supporters that it had in workplaces and on housing estates even as recently as 20 years ago . |
| 3 | starting a little brown smoulder mark it were like that all the through the electric blanket of course all the through the the sheets all through the sheets and blankets and it had just coming through the top counterpane we used have a |
| 4 | It was called the Eel and Boot and it had a large sign outside with a welly covered in slime and an even slimier serpentine creature peering irritably out of the top of it like Ridley Scott 's alien in one of its earlier manifestations . |
| 5 | and Jacobitism than it had been in the previous year , yet Craigbarnet 's plight was serious and a failure to help him would offend many . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The enthusiasm and militancy of 1919 no longer existed in the areas and industries where it had mattered most . |
| 8 | They say repairs could cost between £20,000 and £60,000 if it had to be rebuilt . |
| 9 | She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward . |