Example sentences of "where it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having crossed the Siemens ' Brothers homeland , it then clipped through a southern corner of Russia heading for Tehran , where it had its only interconnection before continuing on to the Indian sub-continent . |
| 2 | And here was Conservatism , with a do-nothing prime minister in Mr Baldwin , with an out-of-date commitment to maintaining the British Empire in a world where it had ceased to be possible or right to maintain it , so that we spent millions in building a fortress at Singapore while we spent nothing more on housing or education . |
| 3 | It comes from Rostand 's Chantecler , a play which Eliot recalled in 1919 , probably having seen it in Paris where it had been a hit in the winter of 1910 . |
| 4 | He listened as the Cambridgeshire sergeant explained that the keeper on the shooting estate had realized he had seen the old plough there last week and had fetched the farmer in to explain where it had gone . |
| 5 | Philip took the vase and put it on the table where it had been before , wiping off some of the dust with his elbow . |
| 6 | I made no pilgrimage to Valladolid , where it had all begun . |
| 7 | One bottle had been flung against the wall where it had exploded in shards of glass and a bloody , dribbling splash . |
| 8 | Tulipifera liriodendron ( i.e. Liriodendron tulipifera ) known in England as the tulip tree and as a ‘ poplar ’ by settlers in America , first flowered in this country in the Earl of Peterborough 's garden at Parsons Green where it had been planted , according to Miller , in a wilderness with other trees allowed to overhang it for protection . |
| 9 | Boys and old men drove donkeys , which carried baskets of sand from where it had blown into the town at one end , to be taken off by the wind at the other . |
| 10 | The Americans came ‘ over there ’ for the last act and the curtain came down in Belgium where it had all begun four horrific years before . |
| 11 | The offence was compounded when one Anthony Hurke released the animal from where it had been impounded and turned it back to the Down and was himself fined . |
| 12 | Anyone who 'd paid money for their dog , or did n't know where it had been , should take it to the god in Lāmri to be blessed and cured : and if anyone had been bitten recently , or had been in contact with the rabid dog , they too should see that god . |
| 13 | It had a good record during the later stages of the Battle of Britain , where it had produced Fighter Command 's only Victoria Cross of the war — Flt.Lt . |
| 14 | Jack Foley began , but then he saw the car that had been pulled away from the corner where it had crashed . |
| 15 | I had got one souvenir and if not identifiable with the shed , at least I knew where it had come from . |
| 16 | An act of defiance it had been , and look where it had got her . |
| 17 | The walls not of stone had been plastered and whitewashed , with here and there a grey stone protruding where it had been too large or awkward to remove and cover . |
| 18 | You could spot where it had just been by aeroplanes and helicopters taking off in a hurry . |
| 19 | Rebuilt to full flying condition began in 1987 when Nick Grace , of Spitfire ML407 fame , brought the Mk XI back from Holland , where it had been displayed since 1960 at Overloon . |
| 20 | ‘ They wanted our money but did not want anyone to know where it had come from . |
| 21 | The plate from which he had eaten his hamburgers and frozen green beans , which had been last night 's supper , still unrinsed in the sink ; the splatter of grease marks above the ancient gas stove ; the viscous mess of grime gumming the narrow gap between stove and cupboard ; the soiled and smelly teacloth hanging from its hook at the side of the sink ; last year 's calendar askew on its nail ; the two open shelves jammed with a conglomeration of half-used cereal packets , jars of stale jam , cracked mugs , packets of detergent ; the cheap , unstable table with its two chairs , their backs grubby from numerous clutching hands ; the linoleum curving at the wall where it had become unstuck ; the general air of discomfort , uncaring , negligence , dirt . |
| 22 | He rose stiffly to his feet , then bent and found the bolt where it had rolled against the compartment wall underneath the shuttered window . |
| 23 | Another knight , perhaps emboldened by his companion 's hints , argued that the removal of the wool staple from Calais , where it had helped to pay part of the cost of defending the town , had been for the private profit of Lord Latimer , Richard Lyons and others . |
| 24 | The painting dates from around 1903–05 but was only rediscovered last year in New England , where it had been bought for $175 in 1905 when the artist made a trip abroad to find a new audience for his Nihonga work . |
| 25 | What seemed to be happening was the spread of population growth out from the major urban centres where it had occurred in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries progressively to the more rural periphery , leaving a population loss in its wake . |
| 26 | In addition they had two camel guns , small cannons which could be mounted on saddles and fired from the backs of camels ; for the circumstances these had been mounted on the back of a plush sofa which had been recovered from the rampart where it had served during the rains . |
| 27 | When she got there , he was moving the tank with Philip to where it had to go . |
| 28 | That was how it had been , perhaps that was where it had started , thought Liz , as she stared into past and future , before jerking herself back into the present , which now stood at 20.22 . |
| 29 | Her skin , like leathery bark , was stretched tightly over the skeleton , and in places where it had cracked and parted you could see the bones inside like old wood . |
| 30 | In Liverpool , where it had a branch , it was condemned as an organisation " whose administration is in the hands of boarding masters and which fails to inspire the respect of the labouring community " . |