Example sentences of "it [adj] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gave it a weird , lop-sided look and might have made it unstable had that not been compensated for by putting the hold forward . |
| 2 | And people thought that it all had to be changed . |
| 3 | One of the ‘ street toughs ’ , actually a DEA man , later wondered what the point of it all had been . |
| 4 | It all had to be done in the dark and was rather frightening . |
| 5 | Having already made substantial structural changes to his garage to make room for the aeroplane 's assembly , and storage when complete , he spent the first days after its arrival using some of the surplus lumber from its packing crate to build a workbench , only to discover on completion that it all had to come apart again to extract the stepladder he 'd used to support it during assembly . |
| 6 | I did n't know at that time what the content of the exhibition was because Sarah who organised it all had to write to lots of people and arrange the loans and you know it is fairly recently that we discovered for example the tate would lend , their pictures because its very rare that they do , erm , and , so we thought the next best thing , when I discovered the change of dates would be to have slides of the pictures that Sue was using , but erm oh dear then wonderful that Sue was using a another book and this term allocated and I was n't able to get the slides she picked , it was my fault that they 're not on slide due to the amount of time that we had to do this . |
| 7 | How simple and shining it all had looked when she was young and mama was preaching democracy and she went one better with her faith in Fabian Socialism . |
| 8 | Your poor visitors had come miles , had to wait to be taken from the prison gate to the gym , and then had to queue up waiting to hand in a bunch of flowers or something trivial , and then it all had to be signed for , then the screws came over to your table and you had to sign for it . |
| 9 | There was no spot welding in those days , it all had to be forge weld welded . |
| 10 | It all had to be his and hers , or ours or whatever . |
| 11 | ‘ The malt came off the floor and it would go into a garner , and then it all had to be screened . |
| 12 | And if it was n't , My goodness it was a job when it come wet weather and it maybe be lying flat and it all had to be set up , and we had stooks for days . |
| 13 | Nothing came naturally ; it all had to be worked at . |
| 14 | Large mounts of timber had to be handled on the property and it all had to be brought in from outside . |
| 15 | So it all had to be organized really did n't it ? |
| 16 | How perfect it all had been — until later . |
| 17 | They 'd have a little fancy shawl or My Grandma used to always have a fancy shawl that Just a small thing that came , you know , a bit down their back and And my Grandma used to wear erm a white much It was just thing like a baby 's A cotton thing , tied with a just a string , you know just to erm just a tie under her chin and it would have a wee bit of lace s on the corner , or the or the end of the tie , that was through the day and it was all ruffled , and then when she was on holiday and came into town she had a a thing on her head made of velvet and it all had fancy little things in it . |
| 18 | and then it all had to be scrapped and by the middle |
| 19 | They said it all had to be processed so it 's gon na have to go bef but I mean I will get very angry if that gets taken any further cos it 's ridiculous , is n't it ? |
| 20 | When it saw what pleasure the servicemen had from the course , the Club was pleased its struggle to keep it open had been successful . |
| 21 | The report blamed police incompetence for the tragedy , and said that the official obsession with keeping it secret had even extended to withholding news from relatives of the dead . |
| 22 | Apart from defence , its policies are not dissimilar to those of the 1960s when it last had an effective Commons majority . |