Example sentences of "it had [adj] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had sixty-three local branches and its pensioners numbered eighty-eight . |
| 2 | It had five broken ribs and a cracked skull , and it was brain-damaged for life . ’ |
| 3 | The bed looked neat , smooth and austere , and the books on the table beside it had dark sober covers and were obviously devotional books and anthologies of poetry . |
| 4 | The health-care task force , which is due to deliver its report to the president any day now , has outdone all previous committees on every imaginable measure : size ( it had 500 full-time members and innumerable hangers-on ) , complexity ( it was divided into 15 ‘ cluster groups ’ and 34 working groups ) , rigour ( the heads of the working-groups are now having their work reassessed by ‘ auditors ’ and ‘ contrarians ’ ) ; and , not least , ambition . |
| 5 | It had six million viewers and it 's by far the most popular thing I 've done , but I do think it was watched by all types and ages of people . ’ |
| 6 | Beyond this , it had little economic importance and did not function as a multilateral institution in any proper sense of the term . |
| 7 | It had such incredible dignity and power , and it was something that made these villagers , these people who were being so tiresome , give way to her as she walked through them , and it 's in the music . |
| 8 | It had few civil servants and therefore few official secrets . |
| 9 | It had huge torn leaves and a tarry China fragrance . |
| 10 | I would imagine the ball — it had this intense whiteness and a sort of vast , perpetual unburning non-consuming heat — rolling over the quilt of flesh that was my inside . |