Example sentences of "it had [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were rather pleased with themselves for saying this , because it was something the Gruagach would find quite flattering and , also , it had not referred to the Wolfkings , which would have been extremely discourteous , not to say disastrous . |
| 2 | He said the brakes were worn but it had not contributed to the tragedy . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , in early agricultural societies that had not developed into totalitarian welfare states child-rearing assumed a new and crucial importance which it had not possessed in the primeval hunter-gatherer societies ( except perhaps by default : that is , by not really existing as a means of cultural repression ) . |
| 4 | Once , someone had thrown a piece of lighted paper in a bottle at the house but it had not gone through the window . |
| 5 | ‘ But it had not gone near the body ? ’ |
| 6 | Three months after buying and taking delivery of a car , the purchaser discovered that it had not belonged to the seller and still belonged to its original owner . |
| 7 | Mr Wright has been responsibly critical , having served his apprenticeship under John Woodcock , his predecessor , who in his six years ( 1980–86 ) brought to the editorship an authority it had not enjoyed since the great Sidney Pardon . |
| 8 | The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament found in Cruise and Trident a stimulus it had not had since the early 1960s . |
| 9 | All colour had faded from the sky : and although the big board by the gate creaked slightly in the night wind ( as though to insist that it had not disappeared in the darkness , but was still firmly where it had been put ) , there was no passer-by to read the sharp , hard letters that cut straight as black knives across its white surface . |
| 10 | The scenery was beautiful , but it had not entered into the soul of the people . |
| 11 | In the second half of the 1980s , however , the North recovered a small part of the share of manufacturing employment which it had previously lost to the South . |
| 12 | He said that it had already led to the curtailment of five drilling contracts with thousands of potential job losses . |
| 13 | So we have a story that may or may not be a story ( it had already appeared in The People back in January , when it raised few eyebrows ) , and a news reporter who suddenly finds himself giving press conferences rather than attending them . |
| 14 | In the final analysis , the Swann Report not only put aside what it had already acknowledged about the relatively poor performance of students of Bangladesh I origin , but ignored evidence that students of Mirpuri Pakistani origin were also under performing , while students of East African Asian origin seemed to be achieving exceptionally well . |
| 15 | By the mid-nineteenth century it had already extended across the whole social spectrum . |
| 16 | It had already dawned on the girl that , from this moment on , she was on her own , and that there was nobody to stand between her and whatever might be devised for her in the future . |
| 17 | Judge Brian Wall , heading the tribunal , said it had yet to rule on the authorities ' submission that the obstetrician and gynaecologist was not a fit and proper person to practise medicine . |
| 18 | The declaration proclaimed further that the Russian people had the sole right to own , utilize and dispose of Russia 's natural wealth ; that the RSFSR had the right to form its own diplomatic links with other Soviet republics and foreign states ; and that it had the right to participate in the exercise of powers which it had voluntarily passed to the Union . |
| 19 | But it had n't sounded like the milkman somehow . |
| 20 | It had clearly passed by the inhabitants of this quiet corner of Picardy . |
| 21 | It had also led to the adoption of military influences in Bolshevik governmental organization and propaganda jargon which did not disappear at the end of the Civil War . |
| 22 | It had probably entered by the large cat-flap . |
| 23 | Indeed , it had even baulked over the European Payments Union for five months until it gained complete assurance that it would still be able to retain sole control over sterling as an international reserve currency . |
| 24 | starting a little brown smoulder mark it were like that all the through the electric blanket of course all the through the the sheets all through the sheets and blankets and it had just coming through the top counterpane we used have a |
| 25 | It had better begin with the word sport . |
| 26 | Academic English was a recent invention , largely of the inter-war years ; and even where it existed it had commonly stopped with the early nineteenth century . |
| 27 | What little remained of it had never rejoiced in the calm self-assurance of the French , who had equated their race with civilization . |
| 28 | On the other hand , the numerous developments and debates of the decade had not persuaded a single country to shift from the position it had originally adopted on the European question in the 1940s . |
| 29 | By now he was convinced that it had merely acquiesced in the frame-up after his arrest . |
| 30 | Tusser called it the goef , and we can be sure that , like the word , the design of the barn itself and the work that went on in it had hardly changed from the sixteenth century to within living memory . |