Example sentences of "[noun] it had [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In animals it had marked effects on autonomic function , reduced motor activity and had marked anticholinergic properties .
2 Within twelve months it had exceeded expectations and become a £40million growth product .
3 Quite a few days it had taken Madeleine , this sewing .
4 Over the next ten years it had averaged £23 billion a year .
5 It di nobody wanted to do it , he had a big head it had lopped ears
6 In September it was asked by the MOD how much scope it had to lift ammunition production ( it provides about 45% of the ministry 's total purchases ) .
7 In the past it had provided information on the results of disconitnued acquisitions as now required by FRS 3 .
8 He maintained that the increase was reasonable to provide sport for all , but insisted that since leisure and recreation expenditure took up 30 per cent of the council budget it had to safeguard jobs .
9 It would be difficult to keep up the momentum of its campaign and in addition it had created tensions within the two organisations from which most of its members came , the NILP and the republican movement .
10 It was less than a year ago , though it seemed far longer , that they had kept each other company at Ockham House during the long bleak hours it had taken Mary Ladram to die .
11 Actually , both garments fitted her very well , and the boater gave her the same kind of perky look it had given Annie .
12 One thing it had made hir certain of : .
13 Never , she swore , never would she let life mess her around the way it had messed Scarlet .
14 In its first year it had provided funding totalling ECU621,000,000 for 20 projects in central and eastern Europe , for which an overall total of ECU2,100 million of investment was made ( ECU1=US$1.24065 as at March 30 , 1992 ) .
15 The flight had left London originally on Christmas Eve in another aircraft but after an hour 's flying time it had developed trouble with its undercarriage and had to return to London .
16 Even in its best days the circulation of the magazine had been limited to some eight hundred subscribers ( most of whom were " Eliot watchers " , according to Stephen Spender ) and by the time it had ceased publication that number had dropped to a couple of hundred .
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