Example sentences of "it [conj] it had " in BNC.

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1 He kind of looked at me quizzically and he had either not heard it or it had n't made any impact on him … and he basically just kind of waved it off . ’
2 He suddenly captured her hand and placed it where it had been before , over the steady beat of his heart .
3 I sat cross-legged just by the blaze , staring into it from up-wind until it was out and only the metal of the Black Destroyer remained , then I took the sooty skeleton and buried it where it had been ruined , at the bottom of the hill .
4 yeah one of Andy 's cases this morning I had to do it where it had growth old cash on it , which it should n't have had so it was quite handy .
5 She could tell by the feel of it that it had some papers inside , but she did not look at them .
6 How was it that it had taken him so long to see Parry 's daughter thus clearly ?
7 The council grew so tired of lorries cutting this corner short and hitting the casement of the listed building next to it that it had to build a specially high kerb .
8 ‘ Of course , he 'd never have made it if it had n't been for the skill of our local doctor ’
9 ‘ The APB would never have made it if it had all been practitioners .
10 Clara had actually heard one constant church attender , caught out donating a small charitable sum to the Vicar , defend herself to Mrs Maugham by saying that she had n't really meant to give it , and that she never would have given it if it had n't been that her little boy had just given up Sunday school .
11 If it if it had been a tie we would have tossed a coin .
12 It fitted Belinda perfectly … and she acknowledged inwardly that she might have preferred it if it had n't .
13 An individual who is domiciled outside the United Kingdom shall not be chargeable to tax in respect of the sum which is deemed to be his under s739 if he would not have been chargeable to tax in respect of it if it had been in fact his income .
14 Nor does the contrary proposition , that the law does not contain the clear meaning if the legislators did not intend it and would have rejected it if it had been brought to their attention .
15 ‘ He would never have made it if it had n't been for you .
16 Yeah but this this this dog will only drink it if it had a little bit of lemonade in .
17 At the end of the lawn there was a sundial ; they looked at it and it had got the time right .
18 That was the Catholic name for it and it had always seemed very appropriate to Preston , conjuring up visions of an unctuous priest dripping oil and glib assurance .
19 He had rather enjoyed it and it had helped him to keep his mind off what might be happening to Snodgrass and to Floy and Fenella .
20 For instance , Piers 's unforthcoming remark about avoiding love because he had once tasted it and it had left a bitter after-effect .
21 She 'd even been on the local TV news for it and it had done wonders for business .
22 ‘ Too often chief executives fail to recognise that they have embarked on a major project until they are well into it and it had run into difficulties . ’
23 Have been too close to it and it had , and the vents at the back had got churned up with dust at one time , I keep dusting it now .
24 and then getting all the the chassis numbers and that and welding them on to these stolen cars and Because what , you know , er Siobhan 's dad had a , bought a Montego and I do n't know how it came about but they discovered that erm it had a diff I mean it 's had a Maestro engine in it and it had this that and the other .
25 And we went to the one next to it and it had all naked women in it .
26 Harry watched it until it had turned into Emlyn Square , then began walking unsteadily in the same direction .
27 and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm .
28 I know cos we were breaking bits off it cos it had gone over the edge .
29 I 'd seen it but it had n't sunk in .
30 ‘ I remember it because it had grey military markings , ’ added Duncan .
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