Example sentences of "it had [verb] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kent brewer Shepherd Neame said it had leased 60 Whitbread pubs in the south-east of England . |
| 2 | Even this better-than-expected showing , however , does n't do that much for Sun 's margins because it had to promise free MP upgrades . |
| 3 | Opren , the anti-arthritis drug , was banned after its large-scale use and Mexico found itself unable to meet its international debts because it had discovered enormous oil resources . |
| 4 | Transport costs cut into that favourable balance ; the Company reckoned it had to sell Indian cotton textiles at 2½ to 3 times their Indian price to cover costs , and dividends were not normally above 7 or 8 per cent a year . |
| 5 | On Oct. 2 Bank of America also admitted that it had contravened central bank regulations and diverted large deposits of public funds to securities transactions . |
| 6 | The Israeli delegation rejoined the talks on Nov. 12 after it had received written US assurances that Hallaj 's membership of the PNC had lapsed in 1991 . |
| 7 | UNITA on the other hand claimed that it had killed 82 government troops in these attacks and others in Cabinda and Uige provinces . |
| 8 | It had survived numerous bombing attacks by the IRA and stood in Great Victoria Street next to the railway station . |
| 9 | The Vietnamese government had always maintained that it had returned all US POWs to the US government shortly after the signing of the Paris peace agreements in 1973 . |
| 10 | The non-communist Khmer People 's National Liberation Front ( KPNLF ) said earlier this week it had captured 24 Phnom Penh government positions on Route 69 in the north-west of the country . |
| 11 | It said it had sold 38,000 NT developers ' kits to date . |
| 12 | Malaria was rife and by the following July it had claimed twenty-one Nez Perce lives . |
| 13 | It had to identify new target markets . |
| 14 | It had taken six telephone calls and much going to and fro before Peter and Susie finally arrived for their first counselling appointment . |
| 15 | If its policy seemed more or less radical at different times it was n't necessarily changing its view of land reform , but it was keeping its final goal of socialism in sight so it had to make short term expediencies . |
| 16 | It had to meet huge mortgage indemnity insurance claims from lenders of repossessed homes now worth less than was lent on them . |
| 17 | The IRA said earlier it had issued two telephone warnings giving the exact location of the bombs . |