Example sentences of "[coord] it had [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The hospital had been built as a memorial to King Edward VII and it had seen better days .
2 Before a prayer had formed itself , a young brown hand covered mine and I looked round to see the turbaned head of the Youngest Son , his face half covered by his head-scarf , his eyes laughing , his whole figure straight against the storm as though he and it had made some truce .
3 It had retained no suitable system of books and records , failed to implement an appropriate system of internal controls and it had lacked appropriate segregation of functions .
4 White and anxious , she said : Yes , she had given that bag to her daughter , and it had contained such chocolates .
5 It had taken them only a short time to realise they were from opposite sides in the Therapeutic Wars , but it had caused little friction .
6 But it had taken four years from the completion of that review for a decision to be made on the future of the RHA 's six asylums .
7 But it had taken bad ways and , by the time he 'd agreed to see the doctor , it was too late .
8 Memento Mori was in no sense new in the teaching of the churches , but it had acquired fresh importance in the light of the conversion experience , which was a central feature of the religious revival .
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