Example sentences of "had [vb pp] it [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conclusion of the report was that the resilience and vigour of adult education in the county during the previous twenty years had placed it in a good position to consolidate earlier effort and made HMI confident that further development in the provision of liberal adult education would build on the foundation of the established tradition of co-operative endeavour between the LEAs and the Responsible Bodies . |
| 2 | The reason was that the employer had taken no effective steps to end the practice and yet suddenly , and without proper warning , had treated it as a sufficient ground for dismissal . |
| 3 | Addressing a press conference on June 23 , French Finance Minister Pierre Bérégovoy said that while some countries favoured associate membership for the Soviet Union , others had regarded it as a transitional status . |
| 4 | Saatchi approach : Southeastern Asset Management , which owns 10.2 per cent of Saatchi & Saatchi , said one or more parties had approached it about a possible restructuring of the advertising group . |
| 5 | The Robemaker had not closed the door , but he had pushed it to a little . |
| 6 | By the 1950s , The Ridges was the criminal ghetto of Newcastle , and by the 1970s a costly council manicure job had turned it into a free-fire zone . |
| 7 | Chamberlain had seen it as an ideal way of combining the efficient running of Birmingham with improving its water supplies , housing and city centre . |
| 8 | In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years . |
| 9 | The sleight of hand had not been performed to show off ; he had done it in a matter-of-fact way , as though it were no more unusual than scratching his ear . |
| 10 | Her dress had been made by a local dressmaker who had made it with a deep frill of black satin round the neck . |
| 11 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 12 | Freya 's letter looked as though she had written it in a great hurry : reams and reams of handwritten scrawl , with sentences crawling up the side of the page and ideas jumping all over the place . |
| 13 | She was seized with a desire to feel his hand on her breast again , as she had felt it for a fleeting second months ago . |
| 14 | The hedgehog itself was 19 stitches wide and she had saved it as a 23-stitch pattern repeat . |
| 15 | His father had wounded another bull in the same herd , but not mortally , and although they had tracked it by a faint blood trail for an hour , in the end , to the senator 's ill-concealed irritation , they had been forced to abandon the search . |
| 16 | Having , as a small boy , saved his pocket money to buy his mother a scarf for her birthday , he was sharply told to take it back : he had bought it at a Liberal shop . |
| 17 | Fashion editors had used it as an exotic background to collections of fabulous clothes . |
| 18 | After its discovery in 1873 , the Tongue had found its way into the hands of a treasure-hunter , who had kept quiet about it and sold it to a London dealer , who in turn had sold it to an American collector , who had lent it to an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1922 — which latter appearance had provided the clues , sixty-five years later , for a detective-story-like investigation on the part of Theodore Kemp of the Ashmolean Museum — a man who now lay dead in the mortuary at the Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 19 | Older residents recall the days when a car could be driven down this lane , but years of neglect had reduced it to a narrow path . |
| 20 | Cynthia Iliffe shared with the Board a feeling that it could be rather ‘ a hybrid sort of degree course at first ’ , but Pocock and the Board really believed in it , understood that the Crick model of a discipline-based degree had provided it with an academic foundation , but even then ‘ we talked a lot about integration ’ . |
| 21 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 22 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
| 23 | By an effort of memory she could just recall a time when money had been plentiful , and her father — then strong and well — had spent it with a gay extravagance which had delighted her as a small child . |
| 24 | I learned the next song from my four-year-old son Russell whose teacher had adapted it from an older song to help with subtraction . |
| 25 | They had swapped it for a modern flat in a concrete skyscraper . |
| 26 | He had inherited it as an agreeable but mildly onerous responsibility , together with her considerable fortune . |
| 27 | The President himself had transmuted it into a grand desire for peace . |
| 28 | The Shah had imagined it as a modern version of the Congress of Vienna of 1815 , where the rulers of the world could meet and discuss matters of great import . |
| 29 | But the corkscrew had burst it like a corpulent balloon and its fluid ran down the tramp 's face , clear liquid mingling with blood . |
| 30 | Originally a woodshed , the previous owners had converted it into a thatched extension that is now lined with books . |