Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Briefly put , the law is now back to what Parliament had intended when it enacted the Act of 1906 — but stronger and clearer than it was then . ’ |
| 2 | She was more scratched than she had realised and it felt as if every small insect in the wood had landed in her hair . |
| 3 | More than half thought the school had explained but it seemed to be in the past , a one-off opportunity and not an on-going process . |
| 4 | He had bought a bunch of parsley on his way in , because he had heard that it clears away the smell of alcohol . |
| 5 | The third practice had overspent because it had taken over a smaller practice after the preparatory work on budget setting had been completed , and it had not been able to make an accurate estimate of prescribing costs for the 1300 patients involved . |
| 6 | The second hand had stopped where it had met the pin inserted near the 55-second mark . |
| 7 | He clearly thought he had won and it annoyed her . |
| 8 | He had protested that it did not have the money and had been told that ‘ the Minister would not wear a statement that funds were exhausted ’ . |
| 9 | The Colony , which had its legal status removed in February [ see p. 38002 ] , was still operating and former inmates had reported that it had been a centre for child sexual abuse and slave labour , and a torture centre for Pinochet 's DINA secret police following the 1973 military coup . |
| 10 | Word of total closure came just one week after the society had revealed that it had taken a controversial first step toward meeting its operating costs with a loan of $1.5 million from Sotheby 's secured by $3.5 million worth of works from its vast collections . |
| 11 | At the beginning of the 1750s very few Englishmen in America had pushed even as far inland as the East India Company had done when it founded its port up the Hughli river at Calcutta . |
| 12 | He was amazed with the improvement I had made and it showed just what can be achieved with hard practice . |
| 13 | It was the first show of emotion she had made and it did more to make Wexford believe her story than all the documentary evidence she had furnished him with . |
| 14 | His plaster had been changed , and he had written whilst it dried . |
| 15 | A spokeswoman for the ministry said that it had seen a draft of the report earlier in the year and had felt that it had made ‘ inappropriate use ’ of the generalised derived limits . |
| 16 | He 'd caught a glimpse of the two of them reflected in the hall mirror and his heart had lurched because it looked as if he was propping up a corpse . |
| 17 | Years before , a wooden handrail , polished by generations of hands , had lined the high pavement , but the town council had decided that it served no useful purpose and detracted from the charm of the stone-walled cottages perched high on the bank above , and when the handrail had become shaky with age it had been dismantled , much to the annoyance of the Thrush Green residents . |
| 18 | Equally the press , almost as a whole , had decided that it liked the girl . |
| 19 | Opponents of the bill had argued that it amounted to " retroactive justice " by declaring illegal acts committed in another country and allowing the prosecution of people for offences committed before they became British citizens or residents . |
| 20 | Residents in nearby villages had watched as it plummeted to the ground , frighteningly near their homes . |
| 21 | These included advocacy of the Palestinian 's " right to an independent and demilitarized Palestinian state " and of participation by the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) in the peace negotiations , once the PLO had proved that it recognized Israel and had " ceased terrorism " . |
| 22 | Caroline had disappeared but it had been shown that it was nothing to do with him . |
| 23 | The lank look had disappeared and it did look lighter . |
| 24 | She had done enough of that over the past few weeks , and had found that it led nowhere . |
| 25 | The men destroying the heap of stones in the woods , on the orders of the priest , had found that it covered a shallow grave . |
| 26 | Until he reached five degrees he had found that it turned easily , through long use … but now it became stiff and awkward . |
| 27 | In November Waterstones had declared that it had terminated the concession , giving six months ' notice . |
| 28 | Johnson also read a little — in his room he had works by his erstwhile host Lord Monboddo , and Laurence Sterne 's Sermons of Mr Yorick ( interestingly , Boswell does not give the full title , merely calling it Sermons , a deference perhaps to the scandal the book had caused when it appeared in 1760 ) . |
| 29 | I had assumed that it meant the characteristic of being alive , livingness , whatever it is that makes life life . |
| 30 | The Council issued a statement on 13 September , correcting some points in the press reports , emphasizing that the visiting party had indicated that it believed the Polytechnic had ‘ the potential to rectify the grave situation in which it finds itself , and stressing that the visiting party had not suggested that courses as currently taught were below an acceptable standard . |