Example sentences of "[adv] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was jilted after five years together it had a devastating effect . |
| 2 | ‘ Just a few hours ago we were dancing and enjoying ourselves but suddenly it had become a dance of death , ’ said a survivor . |
| 3 | When the script was being written , when the film was being filmed , the violence was still very much in vogue ; suddenly it had disappeared . |
| 4 | So suddenly it had come , all they were working for . |
| 5 | She could n't care less what he had been up to , but quite suddenly it had become imperative that she steer the conversation away from herself and divert the interest he was showing in her . |
| 6 | They would all chip in later , of course , but she was too shattered right now , they must all be too shattered right now , to start doing sums , working out who had eaten what and how much it had cost . |
| 7 | It had been a lie and the whole class had laughed when Philip had asked him how much it had cost , even Mrs Mills . |
| 8 | I thought of the empty coal yard , and how much it had not needed fire watching . |
| 9 | Peter wondered how much it had cost . |
| 10 | By that time Barbara knew Leo very well , and she guessed how much it had cost him to tell her the whole unsavoury story . |
| 11 | Once in her life already she had become attached to someone and had allowed herself to be swept down with him in his lonely vortex into the silent depths where nothing moves but drowned sailors coughing seaweed ; only Miriam herself knew how much it had cost her to ascend again from that fascinating , ghostly world towards light and life . |
| 12 | She knew she had better not tell him how much it had cost . |
| 13 | And that night when Linnet , face to face with her own reflection in her solitary looking-glass and the stark realization of how much it had really meant to her , had been unable to sleep Tristan had walked with her for hours in the manor garden , Gemma watching them from her bedroom window as they paced beneath the chestnut trees , engrossed , almost entwined , like turning to like , intent wholly and exclusively upon one another . |
| 14 | Melissa had pushed this small incident into the back of her mind ; now she remembered it , she realised how much it had hurt . |
| 15 | The company refused to say how much it had spent on environmental protection . |
| 16 | And apparently it had been . |
| 17 | Apparently it had been placed there in the pre-dawn . |
| 18 | Apparently it had been reported hopping about in a car park close to the village . |
| 19 | We had never heard of such a thing ; and apparently it had only recently been catalogued , after a spate of Australian deaths on the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 20 | Apparently it had been near here , not in Bahdu , that the Greek merchants had been killed the year before . |
| 21 | If the agreement between Viola and Hilda was to hold — as apparently it had held after the murder-then Rose was the principal beneficiary . |
| 22 | Well apparently it had gone to Andrew , and , Andrew had cos Andrew is n't in the office all the time , and he 'd left it in the office , and I think they faxed it by th Andrew was gon na talk to somebody about it , but of course , by the time he 'd got there , it 'd already been done and this had happened so I 'm gon na ring erm Job Centre when I get home . |
| 23 | We moved it once and apparently it had to go a zoo after that cos when we moved it back it was about twelve foot long , and then of course it g grew even larger than that . |
| 24 | For too long it had been treated as a Cinderella service . |
| 25 | She had no idea how long it had taken her to cross the river . |
| 26 | I do n't know how long it had been there . |
| 27 | Rescrawling Tommy Titmouse on her list I was interested to see how long it had grown , and I noticed that even Mercer had n't been let in without signing . |
| 28 | I reckoned it to be about nine months , so I asked him how long it had been . |
| 29 | In the end part of there specific bequest had to be used to pay the balance of bills but there was a complaint about how long it had taken to sort out , and it taken long to sort out because it was a home made will that did n't make all the right provisions . |
| 30 | Ellwood wondered how the search for Tessa was going and how long it had taken the Department to close the story down . |