Example sentences of "had [verb] it in the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Its windows and doors had been sealed up with breeze-blocks but the Koranic inscription beneath the roof remained and someone had painted it in the past ten years . |
2 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |
3 | We had seen it in the other tombs as well , sometimes carved on top of the paintings . |
4 | Frankie Howerd had bought it in the early Seventies . |
5 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
6 | ‘ Our children had to do it in the Cultural Revolutiion ten years later . |
7 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
8 | He explained about the legend and the Monument and the meteorite that had brought it in the first place . |
9 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
10 | The new Careers leaflet was in stock and National Office had inserted it in the new student packs . |
11 | He was not much older than Peter and he looked puzzled , as if wondering not only how to end this conversation but how he had begun it in the first place . |