Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Kent brewer Shepherd Neame said it had leased 60 Whitbread pubs in the south-east of England .
2 Opren , the anti-arthritis drug , was banned after its large-scale use and Mexico found itself unable to meet its international debts because it had discovered enormous oil resources .
3 On Oct. 2 Bank of America also admitted that it had contravened central bank regulations and diverted large deposits of public funds to securities transactions .
4 The Israeli delegation rejoined the talks on Nov. 12 after it had received written US assurances that Hallaj 's membership of the PNC had lapsed in 1991 .
5 UNITA on the other hand claimed that it had killed 82 government troops in these attacks and others in Cabinda and Uige provinces .
6 It had survived numerous bombing attacks by the IRA and stood in Great Victoria Street next to the railway station .
7 The Vietnamese government had always maintained that it had returned all US POWs to the US government shortly after the signing of the Paris peace agreements in 1973 .
8 The non-communist Khmer People 's National Liberation Front ( KPNLF ) said earlier this week it had captured 24 Phnom Penh government positions on Route 69 in the north-west of the country .
9 It said it had sold 38,000 NT developers ' kits to date .
10 Malaria was rife and by the following July it had claimed twenty-one Nez Perce lives .
11 It had taken six telephone calls and much going to and fro before Peter and Susie finally arrived for their first counselling appointment .
12 The IRA said earlier it had issued two telephone warnings giving the exact location of the bombs .
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