Example sentences of "it had [art] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had a slight curl in it that made her look soft somehow . |
| 2 | I do n't think I would ever do such a thing again , but when the depression settles on me I 'm very vulnerable , and if I went to see a film and it had a drowning sequence in it , or swirling water , then you just ca n't tell . |
| 3 | If that sounds nauseatingly juvenile , it had a certain aptness in the Fifties when marriage was for many an institution for recreating one 's childhood and centering life once more on the nursery . |
| 4 | It had a big name in athletics and some of our boys went on to be students there , so the reputation of Henry Compton was high in the field of sport . |
| 5 | It had a big egg in it . |
| 6 | It produced the coal for 80 per cent of Britain 's electricity , so , like the CEGB , it had a direct interest in denying the effects of acid rain , or at least delaying action as long as possible . |
| 7 | But it had a special place in many north Londoners ' hearts . |
| 8 | ‘ It had a slow bit in the middle . |
| 9 | It had a pale beauty in the moonlight that gave him more unexpected enchantment . |
| 10 | Cos he chucked one away the other day because it had a little chip in it . |
| 11 | At independence in 1961 and during the period immediately afterwards , the new TANU government was concerned that it had no direct voice in the press . |
| 12 | The chimpanzee in the laboratory would be unlikely to solve the box-stick-and-banana problem if it had no initial interest in the bananas . |
| 13 | Sotheby 's case for being discharged from this hugely expensive and embarrassing case rested on the argument that it was merely the custodian of the treasure , was unaware that its export licences from the Lebanon had been fraudulently acquired , and that it had no further interest in the treasure . |
| 14 | It had the right colour in it as well . |
| 15 | We were not much concerned at discovering that we shared our beds with lice , or that the hotel also doubled as a brothel for the town 's leading gentry , because for us it had the finest view in the world . |
| 16 | FoE urged Nirex to admit that it had the wrong design in the wrong place and called on the company to abandon the scheme . |
| 17 | ‘ It had an actual gate in it , ’ he added . |
| 18 | Envy would not be so strong and indefeasible an instinct , unless it had an important function in the evolution and survival of human society , and therefore of mankind itself . |