Example sentences of "had [verb] it [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chamberlain had seen it as an ideal way of combining the efficient running of Birmingham with improving its water supplies , housing and city centre . |
| 2 | Fashion editors had used it as an exotic background to collections of fabulous clothes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | He had inherited it as an agreeable but mildly onerous responsibility , together with her considerable fortune . |
| 6 | However , whereas Chatterjee had left it as an interesting hypothesis , Jones and Palmer had designed an experiment right away to try and simulate the effect in the lab . |
| 7 | Surely she had taken it as an ill omen ? |
| 8 | Within a year of his appointment he had managed to sever the College from the Ministry of Education and had established it as an independent foundation with its own College Council . |