Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dougal had arranged to hire it for the Sunday and the Monday , just to be on the safe side . |
| 2 | Women who were currently taking the pill or who had stopped taking it in the last 12 months had a significantly lower rate of endometriosis than those who had stopped for longer periods . |
| 3 | He had resolved to keep it for the whole year , egged on by his father , who had promised him a new bicycle if he succeeded . |
| 4 | I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict . |
| 5 | In their initial — and nearly successful — attempt on the Mort Homme the Germans had sought to outflank it from the northeast , and now they tried a similar movement on Côte 304 from the west . |
| 6 | Probably she had been kept late by whatever it was she was doing and had decided to leave it until the morning . |
| 7 | Browne affirmed that it was , and in July Eliot sent a draft of the first three acts ; he had entitled the as yet incomplete play " One-Eyed Reilly " but in a postscript explained that he had decided to change it to The Cocktail Party . |
| 8 | It had had brake trouble and Morrison , who was an expert mechanic , had offered to mend it over the weekend . |
| 9 | At Plowden was a road bridge built of transverse timbers with gaps in between ; it was here , on one of our journeys , that we sighted a cow with all four legs fallen through the gaps and its horns waving over the line ; Cadwallader ( the guard ) had had to pull it by the horns with main force while the station master sat on its head and Whitaker slowly drew the coaches past . |
| 10 | He still refused to share his legitimacy with the parties , as he had refused to share it with the CNR . |
| 11 | Those with turpentine , for instance , flew southwards if they had been trained in a loft with the smell of that compound blowing in from the north , and northwards if they had learned to smell it from the south . |
| 12 | If you continue working , say for an additional five years , your pension will then be 45 per cent higher than if you had started taking it at the normal age . |
| 13 | In an exchange of letters with lay critics of the Royal Society of Chemistry-s award of a fellowship to the ‘ world-ranking scientist and academician ’ , J. S. Gow , the Society 's Secretary-General , had tried to distance it from the Romanian laureate . |
| 14 | He had chosen to do it before the statue of Eros at Piccadilly Circus . |
| 15 | The food to which Agnes Diggory led her had been welcome , however , and she had chosen to consume it in the friendly housekeeper 's little pantry next to the kitchen , rather than risk encountering Miss Merchiston once again tonight . |
| 16 | When Archbishop Bradwardine preached before Edward III after English victories at Crécy and Neville 's Cross in 1346 he claimed that God granted victory to whomever he willed , and he had willed to grant it to the virtuous . |