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

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1 No war is really a wanted war , and Vietnam was no exception , it was an unwanted war , but the US felt obliged to enter into it because of the fear it had of Communism .
2 ‘ Before the fight they were chanting my name for the first time and I could see the effect it had on Ruddock , his head was going down while my chest was swelling with pride .
3 He pointed out , however , that on one definition it had in fact arrived ; but the figures concerned were distorted by developments in North Sea oil .
4 In each case it had in effect been ruled that Gen Robertson 's order of 14 May would apply , and that 5 Corps could continue with arrangements already entered into hand over both Cossacks and Yugoslavs but only in each case , so lob as force did not have to be used .
5 It wasted what money it had on drinking and it spoke with rough accents .
6 Unlike many people since the end of the Second World War , Freud , writing in the late 1920s , remained impressed with the progress made in the use of technology in improving man 's life , although not unaware of the potential it had for destruction .
7 Israel began to integrate elements of the military government into its own civil ministries , proving that the kind of autonomy it had in mind implied less rather than more Palestinian control over their affairs .
8 Poland has stopped building the only atomic plant it had in mind .
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