Example sentences of "[adv] it had [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The movement whose new star he became in 1934 soon showed the public how greatly it had gained strength . |
| 2 | The board announced yesterday it had chosen Berisford ‘ as the party to proceed to the next stage of negotiations ’ with a view to making an offer for Clark . |
| 3 | A year later it had lost £227 million . |
| 4 | They were showing a film , The Life of Christ , and though this was clearly an illusion as well it had taken place in real life , and uncle was very much a believer . |
| 5 | Obligingly it had allowed time for everyone to note its zig-zag back stripe ending with the V on its head . |
| 6 | He kept wondering how it had got Silk . |
| 7 | Iraq , for its part , was widely believed to have condoned the " hot pursuit " of the Kurdish activists , who had been conducting guerrilla activities against the Turkish authorities for some 20 years , and indeed it had signed agreements to this effect during the 1980s . |
| 8 | It looked so simple , so pure , yet it had held terrors for the Ralembergs and would be the beginning of fresh horrors for me . |
| 9 | Its trade with capitalist countries , like that of its Latin American neighbours , was squeezed in the mid-1980s , when it had to re-negotiate payments of hard-currency debts . |
| 10 | The exhibition was open for five weeks until 5th June , when it had to make way for models of the Wellington monument competition . |
| 11 | It had a good record during the later stages of the Battle of Britain , where it had produced Fighter Command 's only Victoria Cross of the war — Flt.Lt . |
| 12 | It was , indeed , only when their conversation seemed to be moving towards a close , with Derek none the wiser about why it had taken place , that Golding began to apply a steely edge to his questions . |
| 13 | Previously it had taken Ford 14 hours to assemble a car ; now it took 93 minutes . |
| 14 | FAMILY 's enemies ( and it had many , most notably among feminists ) were fond of equating its origins with movements of the seventies such as the anti-abortion campaigns , the racialist right and the pro-censorship lobby , and certainly it had drawn members from all these . |
| 15 | He was well placed in the cotton industry and it gave him a generous income ; therefore it had to take precedence , but the monotony of arriving at the same place at the same time every day now bored him as much as had the mechanical frenzy of the bobbins when he arrived . |