Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Jekub 's ; at least , it was in a big yellow box bolted to part of Jekub , so presumably it had belonged to Jekub . |
| 2 | ‘ To lutin ’ means to tie hair in ELF-locks ; sometimes he would tangle a horse 's mane so badly it had to be cut . |
| 3 | This lamb 's leg was tangled with twine and swollen so badly it had to be put down . |
| 4 | And all the time Nisodemus was reminding people how much better it had been in the Store . |
| 5 | So suddenly it had come , all they were working for . |
| 6 | Perhaps originally it had been the cellar of a Merchant 's House , for it had walls varying between three and four feet in thickness , whereas the walls of the house where I spent my boyhood were only one brick or nine inches thick . |
| 7 | We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery . |
| 8 | We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery . |
| 9 | She wondered how long ago it had begun and how many of her difficulties could be put down to whatever was the matter with her . |
| 10 | Long ago it had been quarried out of a deep pit called Knamber Hole . |
| 11 | Then he remembered ; appropriately enough it had been at the party when Slater had first introduced Graham and Sara to each other . |
| 12 | Back home it had always been warm . |
| 13 | I did n't look at my watch , but I found out later it had stopped so it would have been wrong anyway . |
| 14 | When he set out today it had been his intention to make for the hills bordering the Golden Valley , but when he got through Blakemere the sweat was dripping from his chin and the sight of a stream tinkling its way not three yards from the road automatically brought his legs off the pedals . |
| 15 | Æthelred 's henchmen were perhaps able to stifle or ignore discontent for much of the time , but even so it had its price . |
| 16 | Well apparently it had gone to Andrew , and , Andrew had cos Andrew is n't in the office all the time , and he 'd left it in the office , and I think they faxed it by th Andrew was gon na talk to somebody about it , but of course , by the time he 'd got there , it 'd already been done and this had happened so I 'm gon na ring erm Job Centre when I get home . |
| 17 | Well maybe it had gone |
| 18 | If it was anything , the Phillips curve was a disequilibrium reaction mechanism , and even then it had been theoretically misspecified . |
| 19 | She could n't care less what he had been up to , but quite suddenly it had become imperative that she steer the conversation away from herself and divert the interest he was showing in her . |
| 20 | The movement whose new star he became in 1934 soon showed the public how greatly it had gained strength . |
| 21 | Dot looked at it and was surprised to see how dirty it had become . |
| 22 | They would all chip in later , of course , but she was too shattered right now , they must all be too shattered right now , to start doing sums , working out who had eaten what and how much it had cost . |
| 23 | It had been a lie and the whole class had laughed when Philip had asked him how much it had cost , even Mrs Mills . |
| 24 | I thought of the empty coal yard , and how much it had not needed fire watching . |
| 25 | Peter wondered how much it had cost . |
| 26 | By that time Barbara knew Leo very well , and she guessed how much it had cost him to tell her the whole unsavoury story . |
| 27 | Once in her life already she had become attached to someone and had allowed herself to be swept down with him in his lonely vortex into the silent depths where nothing moves but drowned sailors coughing seaweed ; only Miriam herself knew how much it had cost her to ascend again from that fascinating , ghostly world towards light and life . |
| 28 | She knew she had better not tell him how much it had cost . |
| 29 | And that night when Linnet , face to face with her own reflection in her solitary looking-glass and the stark realization of how much it had really meant to her , had been unable to sleep Tristan had walked with her for hours in the manor garden , Gemma watching them from her bedroom window as they paced beneath the chestnut trees , engrossed , almost entwined , like turning to like , intent wholly and exclusively upon one another . |
| 30 | Melissa had pushed this small incident into the back of her mind ; now she remembered it , she realised how much it had hurt . |