Example sentences of "it had [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | They were also aware of an even deeper change in the texture of Christianity : it had become the religion of a warrior nobility whose values and culture it had necessarily to absorb in the process of Christianizing them . |
| 32 | After details of the case emerged , the student movement never regained the broad base and wide influence it had once had on the Japanese political scene . |
| 33 | It was interesting that it had once belonged to the Ballaters . |
| 34 | It had more to do with the easy communion between Katherine and Thomas Sachs , the way his eyes sometimes fell on her when she was n't looking . |
| 35 | It is a great misfortune for my book to come out with it ( though I am glad it was written before it ) : if it had only appeared with The Present and the Past . |