Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Old Rectory was only a larger , less pretentious version of Sunnybank — ridiculously named since it had stood on level ground and no sun ever seemed to penetrate its windows . |
| 2 | Being of only flimsy material and fitting tightly round Angela 's body , it had burst in two places when she fell , and when Mummy tried to pull it off , it tore again . |
| 3 | The twin caricatures of the King hoarding the nation 's wealth and the Prince dissipating it had appeared in other Gillray etchings , but nowhere with greater effect than in these two productions of July 1792 . |
| 4 | By 1789 it had assumed in most respects its nineteenth-century form . |
| 5 | The boy said it had began with affectionate cuddling but escalated into sexual acts . |
| 6 | They were alone with the silently hurtling river and the great , gross wound it had made in this bank , curls of dark-red soil peeled back and rolling downhill , and a tangle of uprooted broom bushes . |
| 7 | The moon squatted above the mountains hugely , as if it had descended in majestic importance to pay a visit to this district , these mountains , this town only . |
| 8 | The latter was applying a social policy on which reasonable men could differ ; it had decided against differential rating and this was not a decision so unreasonable that no reasonable corporation could come to it . |
| 9 | Mr Shigeru Oda , the International Court of Justice 's Japanese vice-president , said it had decided by 11 votes to five that it was not competent to issue an injunction to protect Libya from British and American measures . |
| 10 | The Committee made no reference to complaints from Members , although the IBA survey showed that the percentage of MPs who found the Chamber too hot rose from 9 before the experiment to 36 after it had run for four months . |
| 11 | Certainly it would not have been a viable proposition if it had run into serious trouble within a year or so of its launch . |
| 12 | Whereas previously it had sanctioned minimal provision for all paupers , since the 1870s it had insisted upon strict application of the principles of 1834 in the selection of paupers , and restriction of their numbers wherever possible , while at the same time insisting on relief ‘ adequate to meet need ’ in all cases . |
| 13 | It must have been a popular book as it had gone to five editions by 1656 , and twenty-four editions by 1744 . |
| 14 | I mean , the light coming from them would be bent — as if it had gone through crinkly glass — like you get in bathroom windows . |
| 15 | Er I 'm afraid a lot of it had gone by that time . |
| 16 | By last year it had risen to one pound sixty nine . |
| 17 | Average life expectancy was only 43 years in 1880 ; it had risen to 62 years in 1939 , and by the 1960s it was over 70 . |
| 18 | In 1978 it had risen to 31 months , from which it has now declined a little , to 27 months in 1986 ( see Werner 1988 ) . |
| 19 | For example , in 1964 , the average age of mothers having their first child was 24 years , by 1980 it had risen by 6 months and by 1989 it stood at 25.3 . |
| 20 | A figure of 0.86 livestock units/hectare of permanent grassland in Powys in 1939 shows that it had increased between that date and 1955 . |
| 21 | It diagnosed the main weaknesses in the schools it had inherited from earlier decades and set out its alternative vision , a Primary Needs Programme intended to meet children 's needs by transforming schools into exemplars of ‘ good primary practice ’ . |
| 22 | The road he followed marked the seasonal migration of sheep from the treeless limestone plateau further inland to the watered valleys around ; it had led across this terrain since the Romans had farmed there . |
| 23 | But in the madrigal it had led to heightened tone-painting of individual words and phrases , a practice which Zarlino 's own pupil , the Florentine lutenist and singer Vincenzo Galilei ( c. 1520–1591 ) , father of the astronomer , ridiculed in his Dialogo della musica antica e della moderna ( Venice , 1581 ) . |
| 24 | Keeling 's expulsion was particularly linked to a report in the Financial Times of June 27 , which claimed that Nigeria had already spent more than half the windfall earnings which it had received from higher oil prices during the Gulf crisis . |
| 25 | The crusaders had returned to their interstellar castle — which flew onward from nowhere to nowhere just as it had done for many millennia , and must continue to do for many millennia more . |
| 26 | The house looked as it had done for three centuries ; Lord Cumbermound was in no doubt that it would manage another three . |
| 27 | I did n't recommend it because I had seen what it had done to sensitive artists like Scott Walker . |
| 28 | Throughout the seventeenth century , and far into the eighteenth , the issue of precedence continued to arouse strong feeling and generate disputes as it had done in earlier generations . |
| 29 | Amiss thought of mentioning that it had tasted like condensed milk with a tea bag waved at it , but felt that might be a slur on Alf 's taste-buds . |
| 30 | By spreading power across a wider spectrum it would also make it less likely that any one region , such as Scotland , would find itself being governed by a party that it had rejected by huge margins at the polls . |