Example sentences of "[subord] it had [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Overall severity of gastrointestinal symptoms influenced the final height centile as it had height velocity during the initial years of follow up . |
| 32 | So the first day finished with me lying sleepless , listening to that familiar music coming from below as it had years before , the jazz records my mother used to play . |
| 33 | Beyond that was a stable , with the horse standing there indifferently , uncaring what passed before its eyes as long as it had food . |
| 34 | However , such a policy could not be seen in isolation as it had implications for practice more generally , including procedures and training . |
| 35 | And the arrival of the first Its had inspired him , as it had Williams in Birmingham and Lloyd in Edinburgh . |
| 36 | So long as the House was not bound by strict party ties and so long as it had control of the major part of its own timetable , the general task of commenting on and questioning government policy was relatively simple . |
| 37 | Back in the scullery to the left of the lavatory door , coal was stored beneath a window ; a convenient spot as it had walls on three sides , with loose boards which fitted into slots at either end forming the front . |
| 38 | But Brown did not tell Pincher that some of those agents had been betrayed with the knowledge and authority of MI6 , as part of Blake 's supposed role as a double agent , because the government had suppressed that part of the story just as it had Blake 's part in the Berlin tunnel affair . |
| 39 | Like the military in other countries , it was of political importance because of extremely heavy defence expenditure and also because , in the last resort , the survival of the regime depended on its loyalty , for it had control of the nation 's weaponry . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Some rebuilding was carried out in 1804 , after the earlier building had been damaged by fire ( see Shrewsbury ) , for it had timber floors , but the main block is basically the same as originally built , and is still in use . |
| 42 | Although a small Privy Council is different from an informal inner ring , the new body does not seem entirely original , for it had precedents in the fifteenth century and in the early years of Henry VIII . |