Example sentences of "[verb] it had [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The round-up took two weeks and the army found it had to move 232 elephants . |
2 | He admitted fondling his ex-girlfriend 's daughter , but Social services assumed it had accurred 5 years before and his own children were n't in danger . |
3 | A FRESH row brewed last night over the contentious Channel Tunnel rail link through the south-east of England after the Labour Party claimed it had obtained full details of the route . |
4 | Astonishingly he defended his policy of imposing sky high 36.3 per cent rates , saying it had cut unauthorised loans by almost a third in a year . |
5 | Where this gas had combined with the monsoon rains it had produced weak solutions of sulphuric acid and these had etched the exposed architectural surfaces to a dead white . |
6 | Recently the National Trust announced it had bought large areas of the Mournes , including Binnian and Donard , so with good management , facilities and access might improve without the area losing its appeal . |
7 | Deploying all of the ritual tactics of a US bid battle , Chevron , founded by the Rockefeller family , filed a lawsuit to remove Pennzoil as a shareholder claiming it had violated anti-trust laws with its share purchases . |
8 | The army denied it had attacked civilian targets , but Sarajevo television showed several homes damaged by rockets in the village of Siroki Breg . |
9 | British Telecom said it had redirected 300 numbers by last night . |
10 | Last week Shepherd Neame said it had leased 60 pubs . |
11 | American Express , which has put a ‘ fraud alert ’ warning on its April statements , said it had refunded all complainants in full . |
12 | American Express , which has put a ‘ fraud alert ’ warning on its April statements , said it had refunded all complainants in full . |
13 | In its report , the pollution inspectorate said it had received 80,000 responses — 77 per cent of which opposed approval of the plant — but found " no points of substance " to cause it to reconsider the terms of its draft licence for the plant . |
14 | Speaking at the end of the two days of talks , Mrs Thatcher said it had helped some countries combat inflation . |
15 | Speaking at the end of the two days of talks , Mrs Thatcher said it had helped some countries combat inflation . |
16 | But yesterday Forum rejected the criticism and said it had put seven names to Mr Adamec for the cabinet posts . |