Example sentences of "and it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Spain Bernard questioned the principle that the end justifies the means — ‘ the human price was too high ’ — and it had almost ‘ cost him his life ’ . |
| 2 | And it had : James Menzies and Allan Stewart were full of it . |
| 3 | I do n't think I would ever do such a thing again , but when the depression settles on me I 'm very vulnerable , and if I went to see a film and it had a drowning sequence in it , or swirling water , then you just ca n't tell . |
| 4 | And it had a grand in it . |
| 5 | Phoebe had too short a fuse , and it was impossible to guess how she would be , each meeting had to be gauged with care , and it had always been so . |
| 6 | I did longer than most and it had the advantage that , given there was much greater stability of employment then , I got to know a very large number of people . |
| 7 | There were individual factory loyalties and there were divisional loyalties and it had been a pretty cosy relationship between the organisation and the Ministry of Defence . |
| 8 | Concepts like labour organized life in much the same way as the notion of God had done in the Middle Ages , and it had as little material reference . |
| 9 | The country in the south had been really weird , with mushrooms of crumbling lava and wide flat rivers to cross , and it had rained for days , which had added to the general air of unreality as these features kept emerging from the mist . |
| 10 | But how strange it was , the changes which the past two or three weeks had brought : not merely the changes of circumstances ; her father and his hoped for promotion , herself going to the Stadium , Omi talking about herself , Fritz … but the whole relationship inside the family had altered , and she herself had changed , and it had begun with the arrival of Uncle Karl , as if he were a sorcerer , a wave of whose manicured hands could transform life , as alchemists thought they could transform base metal into gold or , with a certain sinister frisson , perhaps the other way around . |
| 11 | Death was his business and it had to be organised efficiently . |
| 12 | Although Chancellor Kohl later agreed to an apparent compromise it was clear even then — how much more so now — that West Germany had killed the programme , and it had done so because it sensed far better than any of its Nato partners how completely President Gorbachev had changed the situation in Europe . |
| 13 | Her baby was due in five days and it had tasted nothing but tears . |
| 14 | The smaller British fund had been licensed to operate by the DTI since 1985 and it had known about the business as far back as 1975 . |
| 15 | He regretted the Opposition had not agreed a bipartisan policy and it had to be asked why they had no similar feelings about the forced repatriation of people from Hong Kong to China ‘ which goes on on every bitas big a scale as anything we are contemplating now ’ . |
| 16 | They had really tired of each other and it had become a struggle between them that was slow to surface until the Diamond Dogs tour because a lot of things happened on that tour that they were both very unhappy about . |
| 17 | Its advice was sought by all the parliamentary select committees involved in any way with the environment and it had a place on several of the government 's consultative bodies . |
| 18 | He had glanced in the washroom mirror and it had not been a reassuring sight . |
| 19 | His last interview with a solicitor had been conducted in a language barely recognizable as English and it had taken over three hours and a reference to the Chief Constable to elicit the fact that the deceased had made a previous will in which the respective positions of his wife and his mistress had been exactly reversed . |
| 20 | Someone had thus moved the body , and it had to be assumed that it was the same person who had pushed her on to the plough . |
| 21 | It , too , was at another of the world 's maritime crossroads : it was part of the island chain from Asia to Australasia ; it was an important source of sterling rubber and tin ; and it had major naval , army and air installations to house and support strategic reserves . |
| 22 | And it had the most money of its own to spend on the election campaign , though unlike many of the other parties it got no western aid . |
| 23 | Nazi soldiers burnt the city to the ground in 1944 , and it had the bad luck to be rebuilt , for the most part , by tasteless Stalinists . |
| 24 | The hospital had been built as a memorial to King Edward VII and it had seen better days . |
| 25 | ‘ I read that when I was sixteen — and it had , well , an almost mystic effect on me . ’ |
| 26 | Eleanor was nearly twice the age he felt he deserved , and it had been his ambition for a long time to have a girl just at the point when it became legal . |
| 27 | All the day before , she had waited for half an hour to go off walking by herself and it had never come . |
| 28 | This was his first visit since his call-up and it had n't changed at all . |
| 29 | His helmet was a bit dented and it had lost its feathers but otherwise he was all right — just a bit dizzy that 's all . |
| 30 | There was this girl in a bath of asses milk , yuk ! and it had all turned to cheese , so they put her on the table with a dish of figs for afters . |