Example sentences of "it had [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had immediately bombed and Sir David English , editor of the Daily Mail , had had to be brought in to rescue it by throwing out the new design ideas and making it look as old-fashioned as its daily counterpart . |
| 2 | It was suffering from a bad wound on its hip , and it had either lost or been abandoned by its mother . |
| 3 | The Ingard group is in serious financial trouble , and a fortnight ago presented a cheque for £300,000 which it had neither finds nor a sufficient overdraft to meet — it had already exceeded the limit of the facilities which the bank was prepared to allow . |
| 4 | It had barely stopped before Collins had the door open and had bundled then inside . |
| 5 | Perhaps because its safe-haven credentials already looked shaky : it had also fallen when Iraqi tanks first rolled into Kuwait . |
| 6 | When jury selection commenced on Sept. 5 , the defence vainly made a last-minute effort to get the trial dismissed , alleging government breach of ethics because it had just learned that Noriega 's former lawyer , Raymond Takiff , who had advised him to surrender to US authorities in January 1990 , was at the time working secretly for federal authorities . |
| 7 | The defendants , inter alia , submitted that the owner of confidential information could not restrain its use by a party to whom it had accidentally escaped and who had not himself undertaken the duty of confidentiality . |
| 8 | Somehow his mother could shut out the unpleasant from her mind as if it had never existed and she had shut out the Worm as successfully as she had shut out everything else . |
| 9 | All rich , strange and remote , as if it had never happened or had happened to another person . |
| 10 | Economically , of course , it had never ceased and had been to both countries ' benefit . |
| 11 | It had never worked and it would n't now . |
| 12 | Possessed by that hunger , it had still sensed that there was something different about the female . |
| 13 | In a statement yesterday , NUPE said it had recently learned that the hospital trust planned to borrow £300,000 from its capital programme to finance the development . |
| 14 | This time it had really disappeared and a party was despatched to procure a new length of pole while the remaining villagers continued the search . |
| 15 | It had gradually enlarged and began to leak some six weeks before his death and was heralded by the onset of headaches . |
| 16 | However , doubt arose over whether Kazakhstan was prepared to give up the nuclear weapons on its territory , as it had earlier stated and as Yeltsin was assuring it would . |
| 17 | It had earlier heard that the legionella bug was found in the centre 's hot water system after Mrs Ormerod was a patient . |
| 18 | It had all happened because Ace Barton had tried to play God in her life , and she 'd let him get away with it . |
| 19 | If it had all succeeded and we 'd taken him back … ? |
| 20 | The USSR must not be given the chance to persuade Germans that it had more to offer than the West on the subject of unification and neutralization . |
| 21 | And then it had only ended after he had decided to go back to his wife . |