Example sentences of "it had [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week . |
| 2 | It had gone off in a hotel in Leinster Place and would always in future be known as the ‘ Bayswater Bomb ’ . |
| 3 | One head of department thought that it had increased marginally as a result of being more involved in decision-making , but this was less important to him than teaching . |
| 4 | Most countries tax multinationals on an ‘ arm 's length ’ basis , calculating the profits that the firm earned within their borders as if it had done so through a stand-alone business , operating at arm 's length from the parent firm . |
| 5 | Like George Habash 's PFLP , from which it had broken away in a brutal revolutionary schism , it was opposed to Arafat 's gun-and-olive-branch approach towards Israel and therefore outside Arafat 's control . |
| 6 | Formed in May 1983 and formally launched that August , it had grown rapidly into a mass-membership anti-apartheid organization , its initial focus being its opposition to the regime 's " tricameral " constitutional plans [ see p. 32599 ] . |
| 7 | It had developed largely as a realistic response to a political environment shaped externally by the rules and conventions of public accountability and internally by the central position of doctors . |
| 8 | All because it had ventured on to a lake where models were banned . |
| 9 | She said it had got off to a slow start but then the true issues had been recognised . |
| 10 | On the shores of uncharted CCT requirements the Computer Co-ordination Section has realised that it had to come up with a leaner , meaner , faster name for the Section . |
| 11 | They argued that the rapid movements involved in a star 's collapse would mean that the gravitational waves it gave off would make it ever more spherical , and by the time it had settled down to a stationary state , it would be precisely spherical . |
| 12 | Then it had held out against a wave of patriotism among a public which was totally unaware of the reality of modern warfare , never having been touched by it . |
| 13 | It had started out as a ship 's boiler but Selwyn had acquired it some years before to ensure a plentiful supply of soft water for his garden . |
| 14 | It had started out as a panacea for one failed relationship and had quickly become a relationship in itself . |