Example sentences of "it have [vb pp] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I accept that it has taken a few years for the process to be completed , but everyone who studies the history books will be able to trace the downfall of the Thatcher Government — as some may still call it — to the time when she was foolish enough to remove the right hon. Gentleman from the duties that he was carrying out so successfully . |
2 | It was a New England trawler , the Valhalla , based on Gloucester , Massachusetts , from which it had sailed a few days earlier . |
3 | If only it had come a few years earlier . |
4 | It had taken a few days to persuade her ladyship to accept change , for she had for so long been used to living in squalor that she could not at first accustom herself to an altered way of life . |
5 | as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here . |
6 | there are bound to be occasions and er it 's happened a few occasions during my political life , where you do er find agreement with people of of various parties . |