Example sentences of "[noun sg] it had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company had to give up the surplus stock it had accumulated at the expense of the public creditors and rescind its claims to be paid in full for the amount it had sold , but the real victims were the public creditors , who had to reconcile themselves to drastic losses in income and capital . |
| 2 | She thought that the spasm of pain would be followed by vomiting , as it often was , but by the time she reached her bedroom it had passed . |
| 3 | The army that was fighting there , particularly its professional component , was still bruised by the defeat it had sustained in Indochina in the early 1950s and was determined not to repeat the experience . |
| 4 | For all the good it had done . |
| 5 | Although acknowledging that since the implementation of a structural adjustment programme it had managed to halt continual economic decline , the government was nonetheless disappointed by the poor performance . |
| 6 | Such manic behaviour I should have found disturbing in normal circumstances , but in my state of extreme tension it had become quite insupportable . |
| 7 | From foundations to roof it had taken only five months to reach this stage of construction . |
| 8 | It ensured there was no turning back , no switching to alternative paths , no way of avoiding the future it had prepared . |
| 9 | What no one told the audience was that although the band 's instruments were apparently all wired up for sound , Shakatak was actually miming to a tape it had recorded in a Shepperton studio the night before . |
| 10 | Last year Astra revealed the results of a two-year study it had conducted on ranitidine ; at high doses it promoted cancers in the stomach . |
| 11 | Riven realised with no surprise that he could love this world and its people , despite the heartbreak it had wrought on him . |
| 12 | The Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens announced on June 16 that the government had officially tied the franc to the D-Mark , formalizing the practice it had followed for the past four years . |
| 13 | I felt well bloody marvellous , you now , i it was that imperative it had got ta be done , you ca n't have time o no I 'm sorry you ca n't ! |
| 14 | She proceeded to relate the interview , keeping nothing back apart from the effect it had had on her , but Nick knew her too well to be fooled . |
| 15 | For some reason Sophie was reluctant to mention her first sighting of him and the effect it had had on her . |
| 16 | Confused and troubled , and with her body still gently glowing from the pleasure it had shared with the man lying next to her , Jessamy closed her eyes and tried to shut everything out . |
| 17 | She polished the chrome , and wiped sand away from the stained-glass frontage , but it was finally useless , just another piece of garbage from a past that could have happened to someone else for all the trace it had left on her . |
| 18 | When the Scottish Institute employed Charlie Clark as its property manager eight years ago , after he left the army , it had no idea what a talent it had acquired . |
| 19 | Sir , — Contrary to your assertion ( see ACCOUNTANCY , October , p 14 ) that ‘ When the Scottish Institute employed Charlie Clark … it had no idea what a talent it had acquired , ’ we certainly knew of Charlie 's pre-eminence as a piper . |
| 20 | Charlotte 's response to her discovery had been so instinctive , and the action it had prompted her to take so urgent , that it was not until late afternoon , aboard a train drawing ever closer to Paris , that she began to consider the difficulties and possible consequences of the task she had set herself . |
| 21 | But as It celebrated a year of publication it had grown from twelve to twenty pages , with the ‘ What 's Happening ’ section now , significantly , filling two tightly set pages at the back , and the Arts Lab offering a ‘ Black Power Week ’ complete with Stokeley Carmichael — bundled out of the country post Dialectics of Liberation — on film , and ‘ Michael Abdul Malik and guests ’ . |
| 22 | The 1947 referendum ( and the law it had considered ) were a further step in the strategy adopted in 1945 to improve the appearance of the regime without altering its underlying principles . |
| 23 | On Oct. 14 the ruling Military Committee for National Salvation ( CMSN ) amended an electoral law it had promulgated one week earlier . |
| 24 | On privatization , the government on 23 July backtracked on a proposal it had announced on July 13 for the creation of two large holding companies to combine Italy 's four main industrial and financial state concerns , together with some other interests at present controlled by the Treasury , in order to facilitate privatization . |
| 25 | From the thin , wretched creature it had been at the beginning of the siege it had become quite fat , for recently it had succeeded in eating two small lap-dogs which had unwisely fallen asleep in its presence . |
| 26 | However , by the time the CPAG came to give evidence to the Select Committee it had taken on board the idea of women 's financial dependency in marriage and had carried out a survey to discover the extent of mothers ' dependence on family allowance for their own and their children 's survival , irrespective of the level of their husbands ' earnings . |
| 27 | The two biggest wars since 1945 , the Korean and Vietnamese , had taken place in Asia ; and there was no counterpart to the Helsinki Final Act and the framework of dialogue it had established . |
| 28 | The SCDC Arts in Schools Project , although spoken of by the one LEA in the sample which was a participant in terms of gratitude for the support the Project 's staff had given , was criticized by staff in the other LEAs for the limited help it had given to them . |
| 29 | The work had been incredibly boring ; even with her husband 's help it had taken an age to find out the Russian terms for the jargon of mountaineering , and the subject simply left her cold . |
| 30 | It 's a pity it had to happen that way . |