Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] it have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chevron 's swift counter-attack came a day after Pennzoil announced it had spent $2.1 billion to build up a nine per cent share stake in Chevron and said it planned to continue investing in the oil giant as a passive shareholder . |
| 2 | A month ago , the UN thought it had persuaded Iran and Iraq to agree on a mixed military commission to settle some of the problems along their 750-mile border . |
| 3 | BR said it had taken steps to control overtime and to ensure engineers were taking breaks in the hard pressed Southern Region , where skills shortages are most acute . |
| 4 | Today Barclaycard announced it has to cut costs and cut jobs . |
| 5 | The FBI said it has ceased negotiations for the time being with Texas cult leader David Koresh , holed up with his followers in a fortified compound , to allow him to talk with his lawyer . |
| 6 | Late last night , the Hungarian news agency MTI said it had received telephone calls reporting more than 30 killings in clashes in Cluj , while another source reported clashes in Arad , 60 miles north of Timisoara , where demonstrators were massacred last week . |
| 7 | Asda said it had cut prices by up to 50 per cent on more than 1,500 lines . |
| 8 | Beecham claimed it had lost $24 million because of ‘ significant errors ’ in an over-optimistic YCS forecast , based on a Laboratory Test Market study , of the prospects for Delicare Cold Water Wash . |