Example sentences of "and [conj] it had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parish priest of Brackenstown , Swords , County Dublin , distributed a newsletter at all masses on Ascension Thursday , 22 May — though before he had read Archbishop MacNamara 's guidelines on how to conduct the campaign — claiming that no-fault divorce was first introduced by Nazi Germany and that it had since wreaked ‘ more havoc on the Allied countries than any German army or air force ever did ’ ( Irish Times , 28 June 1986 ) . |
| 2 | Jenjin told Rostov that Burun had broken Nogai 's wrist during an argument five days earlier , and that it had just been suggested that if his plan went ahead he might get the other one broken as well . |
| 3 | The idea that Stamford was the centre of Mercian government was invented by William Stukeley in the 1730s from his belief that Alchfrith had held his court here and that it had formerly been Hengist 's town . |
| 4 | The president claimed that only defensive weapons had been supplied to Iran and that it had all been legal . |
| 5 | On Thursday , facing uproar on all sides of the Commons , Mr Major ordered that the mess be sorted out and Downing Street duly declared that there would be extra money for the poor over and above RPI uprating and that it had all been planned before the Budget . |
| 6 | Although no opinion could be expressed about the propriety of interventions in particular cases — the enquiry was not a court of law — the report recognized that sexual abuse was no myth , and that it had indeed occurred in Cleveland in many cases . |
| 7 | At the back of the platform was a fence , and although it had apparently been painted white in the early 1900's , in later years the paint had peeled off and bushes had grown up on the cutting side to provide a new backdrop to the isolated platform beside the overgrown railway . |
| 8 | I chose the example I did because it gave an important history of another library , Glasgow , and because it had also belonged at one time to the Guildhall Library , which had passed it on to them . |
| 9 | I removed the offending items , and before it had really begun Barny 's training programme came to a permanent halt . |
| 10 | Sir Charles , pink in the face , commanded the hall to settle down , and when it had reluctantly done so , summoned Sir Teddy Taylor MP to oppose the motion . |