Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new Church of England Church had also been erected at the southern end of Sutton Lane , and was named St. Michael 's as the money for it had been realised by the sale of St. Michael 's Church in Burleigh Street , London , which had been associated with St. Martins-in-the-Fields . |
| 2 | Now he never spoke of it-except once when they were passing , and the smell of it had been blown down on the wind . |
| 3 | As he had passed her in the little hall this morning a tendril of her silky black hair had brushed his ruined cheek , and the smell of it had been so distracting that he had feared for his composure . |
| 4 | But the hope of it had been worth steeling herself to ask Edwin for that loan . |
| 5 | The grand chiffre devised in mid-century by Antoine Rossignol , a member of the greatest family of French cryptographers , was not broken , after the key to it had been lost , until the 1870s . |
| 6 | That was kept in a cabinet — but ‘ regrettably , ’ said Mr Boal , the lock on it had been broken for months . |
| 7 | It was something else , more like a cannon , and before the echo of it had died away , there was a rumbling sound , growing to a roar . |
| 8 | The publication of It had opened a new front and brought in new troops , and different ones , to the Hoggarts who had testified for Lawrence 's novel . |
| 9 | He had said it a hundred times over the past blissful hour together , and each time the sound of it had been even sweeter . |
| 10 | Maureen 's attempt to move into her father 's office and her subsequent compromise of commandeering a desk in the room outside it had been gestures of little practical effect . |
| 11 | Government officials also confirmed that there had been some forewarning of the rebel attack but that the magnitude of it had been unexpected . |
| 12 | ‘ It vanished quite slowly , beginning with the end of the tail , and ending with the grin , which remained some time after the rest of it had gone . ’ |
| 13 | The basket was about a metre deep and the back of it had been built right up high so as to support the bank of flowers . |
| 14 | The top of it had been raised so that Bella , propped up against two pillows , her face grey against their whiteness , was almost in a sitting position . |
| 15 | But the build-up to it had a familiar ring about it for Dave . |
| 16 | Sally-Anne reached the gates and walked up to the rectory , an eighteenth-century building which had once been beautiful , but like the area around it had gone to seed badly , although Dr Neil had told her that it was elegant , if shabby inside . |
| 17 | Sheer shock at the vindictiveness of it had kept Paige rooted to the spot , and then her brain had started to work again . |
| 18 | The thought of it had been impossible for so long that it took some getting used to . |
| 19 | Everything they had on the balcony got smeared with tar because the floor of it had been macadamed . |
| 20 | Even the height of it had to be lowered by two storeys when Ceauşescu decided thirteen storeys would be quite enough ( unlike Elena he was not superstitious ) , and no one pointed out that they were already on the fifteenth floor . |
| 21 | Yeah but then dad said when he came in that , he 'd heard that the middle of it had gone . |
| 22 | In 1985 , the United States delegation made similar remarks to those at the earlier Special Commission , but the United Kingdom expert offered a much fuller statement of the position as it had emerged in the Westinghouse and Asbestos Insurance Coverage cases ; but he still identified the Article 23 Reservation in the United Kingdom version as meeting the case . |
| 23 | The castle of Richmond filled an obvious gap in Gloucester 's domination of Richmondshire , although the lack of it had made little practical difference to his position there , since Clarence seems to have played no part in northern affairs after 1471 . |
| 24 | The castle of Richmond filled an obvious gap in Gloucester 's domination of Richmondshire , although the lack of it had made little practical difference to his position there , since Clarence seems to have played no part in northern affairs after 1471 . |
| 25 | The front of it had oak beams and curved glass in the shape of a Wurlitzer jukebox . |
| 26 | And the worrying thing is it all starts in the margin like it had a through school . |
| 27 | The bed looked neat , smooth and austere , and the books on the table beside it had dark sober covers and were obviously devotional books and anthologies of poetry . |