Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middle-earth itself survived in song even after people had forgotten what it meant : ‘ 0 cocks are crowing a merry midd-larf , /A wat the wilde foule boded day . ’ |
| 2 | I did n't recommend it because I had seen what it had done to sensitive artists like Scott Walker . |
| 3 | He wanted $4500 for the job — once he had seen what it entailed — whereas because of the limited budget everyone else was on scale , amounting to a few hundred dollars . |
| 4 | The Italian farm minister , Giovanni Fontana , said Italy had done everything it had been asked to do but the commission still had some technical questions . |
| 5 | When he had come off the phone the night before and Erica had asked who it had been , he had replied , with a certain confidence and an audible distaste , ‘ Someone talking nonsense ’ . |
| 6 | The last time a man had touched her it had been a pleasure , a miracle of sensation . |