Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had gone down a lot though . |
| 2 | It had become purely a temple art . |
| 3 | One notable absentee at the party was IBM Corp , but the company insisted that it had put out a release — it simply failed to get to us by close of page . |
| 4 | A Polisario communique of Dec. 3 claimed that it had carried out a total of 23 assaults on the Moroccan defence wall between Nov. 2 and Nov. 23 , although it gave no details of casualties . |
| 5 | WINE maker Johann Grimes , of Wotton-under-Edge , Glos , found his labrador legless after it had lapped up a bucket of his home brew . |
| 6 | The voice was warm , too , as if it had soaked up a lot of sunshine . |
| 7 | It had taken only a moment of time ; and in a certain sense everything else that had ever happened to me was insignificant in comparison . |
| 8 | Rather apprehensively I let the other girls use it , on the strict understanding that when they had finished with it they unplugged it and stowed it away somewhere out of sight of our two gauleiters , hopefully after it had cooled down a bit . |
| 9 | Rosalind Wingrove , education committee chairman , said it had set up a panel to consider how best to consult parents . |
| 10 | It had set up a Committee for Research Degrees in 1965 , as well as a study group on research degrees to look at policy for this activity , and had developed research degree relationships with industrial firms and research establishments . |