Example sentences of "that it [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble with winning , she explained , was that it left her with bad memories rather than good . |
| 2 | Her blouse was scooped so low at the front that it left her shoulders and upper arms bare . |
| 3 | It is simply that it left us stranded . |
| 4 | Chemistry had also had symbols , but the problem was that it had them in profusion . |
| 5 | Until recently when I went to a conference on security in libraries and other collections I had not the slightest knowledge of the seamy side of that world or any idea that it had one . |
| 6 | How far all this was homesickness or a defensive strategy against ( anticipated ? ) rejection by the surrounding community , or just sheer stubbornness , I now ca n't tell , but I knew even then that it had nothing to do with the world in which I was trying to live . |
| 7 | All I can remember is that it had nothing to do with his feet . |
| 8 | Questioned , Barron had refused to talk to anyone junior to Wickham and even when Wickham went to his hotel he had little to say except that he had met MacQuillan on private business , that it had nothing to do with the murder and was of no interest to the police . |
| 9 | ‘ You had n't considered that it had nothing to do with you , I suppose ? |
| 10 | I made inquiries about the press conference and I am assured that it had nothing to do with this matter . |
| 11 | Most analysts believed , however , that COPEI had simply decided that it had nothing to gain from being associated any longer with the deeply unpopular AD government . |
| 12 | He tried to pretend that the nasty pink thing he had to strap on did n't exist , that it had nothing to do with him . |
| 13 | Unfortunately for the Patent Office , the advertising agency failed to ensure that it had its facts right — and the Patent Office did not check the agency 's new advertisement . |
| 14 | Grumble as they might about the Masai 's unbudging attachment to their traditional ways , many administrators , particularly in the later years , came to see that it had its advantages . |
| 15 | It is not without significance that it had its source in a campaign which effectively combined Cobdenite principles of free trade with a ‘ bellicose philanthropy ’ worthy of the most self-righteous of Victorian imperialists . |
| 16 | This was part of his belief that poetic composition was not an activity that could be consciously controlled , that it had its roots far down in the unconscious . |
| 17 | He had gingerly opened the Book , which was chained to the octiron pedestal in the middle of the rune-strewn floor not lest someone steal it , but lest it escape ; for it was the Octavo , so full of magic that it had its own vague sentience . |
| 18 | Originally , the abridged talk in Davis 's recording had seemed to be a sensible compromise , yet looking back I can see that it had something to do with the partial dissatisfaction expressed in my review of the reissue : ‘ the total effect is more of a divertissement than of opéra-comique ’ . |
| 19 | The one occasion on which the Government did not cheat on the payments was earlier this year and we hoped that it had something to do with the Adjournment debate . |
| 20 | But I am ready to bet that it had something to do with the trajectory , the pathway through the real-life equivalent of Biomorph Land , that would have to be traversed in order to turn the retina the right way round , starting from whatever ancestral organ preceded the eye . |
| 21 | Theories have been put forward that it had anything from 6 to 24 sides , and even that it may have been circular . |
| 22 | You would never know by its handling that it had anything but a normal tail unit . |
| 23 | He said when Mr McKay 's sick note was sent in it was not picked up that it had anything to do with the accident . |
| 24 | That , complained Nicholson , was because of the full-frontal nudity , and the fact that it had someone who ‘ was fucking and having an audible orgasm . |
| 25 | That it had it head bit off by it young ’ |
| 26 | Compaq Computer Corp says that the restructuring of its field and reseller support operations in the US to increase interaction with its broadened customer base and provide enhanced support to its resellers ( CI No 2,148 ) , will cost about 150 field employees their jobs , but the loss will be partially offset by an as-yet-undetermined number of employees to be hired at the company 's Houston headquarters as part of the reorganisation ; the 150 to go are the last of the 1,000 jobs that it said it planned to cut in October . |
| 27 | And did you feel that it affected your lifestyle ? |
| 28 | Satisfied that it contained nothing which might distress the girl , she read aloud : |
| 29 | The speech was badly received by deputies and republican leaders , who complained that it contained nothing new or concrete , and was out of touch with the mood of the Supreme Soviet and of the country . |
| 30 | Although ignoring man and control systems , taking many detailed facts from the period of physical geography before systems and beginning with two chapters which are very climatologically inspired , nevertheless the approach was refreshing in that it indicated what could be done to redress the imbalance detected by some physical geographers ( e.g. Brown , 1975 ) and to counter the increasingly fissiparist tendencies of the previous decades . |