Example sentences of "[verb] it had [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Personal Systems Business Unit Europe/Middle East/Africa says it had record volume of sales in the first quarter of this year , and points to Dataquest figures suggesting that it outshipped its nearest competitor by 66% during the last quarter of 1992 and the first quarter of 1993 — gaining 4% in market share over the previous six months ; the company also said it reorganised its manufacturing and distribution operations at its Greenock , Scotland , plant , cutting distribution costs for its ValuePoint and ThinkPad brands by more than 65% , cutting its inventory by 17% since the end of 1992 ; this magnitude of savings will also be realised for the PS/2 and PS/1 lines this year . |
| 2 | Imagine it had perception , a memory to retain our follies . |
| 3 | Imagine it had perception , a memory to retain our follies. oh Lord ! — ’ |
| 4 | Imagine it had perception , a memory to retain our follies . |
| 5 | Those who managed it had access to information and carefully sifted opinion . |
| 6 | She saw it had wok en further into its power , for the light was visible , washing through the dark ; it sighed like the sea . |
| 7 | ‘ Bet it had whitewall tyres . |
| 8 | Such as the time when the very inebriated gentleman , at 2 a.m. , wanted to know how to stop his budgie falling off its perch , because he thought it had cramp in its legs ! |
| 9 | So that was the last And I do n't think if he went back after that I think it had kind of frightened him , least so my father used to tell the story . |
| 10 | Like some of its west-European counterparts it had responsibility also for a number of domestic or quasi-domestic concerns such as relations with the Don Cossacks and with foreign merchants in Russia . |