Example sentences of "[verb] it had [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what they had done it had a big slab there and it had got on it er The World 's Largest Slate Mine , and perhaps you 've seen it yourself they 've rubbed the T off and they put V and somebody 's done a very good job of it er in the same paint and everything . |
| 2 | Fiona Weir , FoE 's air pollution campaigner , said that the group did not feel it had the necessary expertise or information to produce warnings on " nuclear winter " effects , ozone depletion and acid rain . |
| 3 | Edinburgh had practically no textile workers , men or women ; but as we have seen it had a great many domestic servants . |
| 4 | Quorshi commented that companies would only do this when they were satisfied that both the PC product and the company selling it had the proper standing . |
| 5 | With the black , you know it had the black bit as well |
| 6 | At the end of May 1792 the College decided it had no further occasion for the service of Blaine , who had been assisting Vial as demonstrator in anatomy . |
| 7 | I believe it had a thatched roof and it was such a bonny place , but it has sadly been derelict for years . |
| 8 | When Mrs Chamberlin had gone , hurrying into the gloomy February afternoon , her oatmeal figure bent resolutely against the wind , Alexandra looked round the drawing-room and saw it had an animated , unsettled look , as if the last caller had stirred everything to action , all the silver photograph frames , the vases and pin-cushions , the rugs and cushions and shaded lamps . |
| 9 | Profitable as the business was , the brothers knew it had a limited lifespan . |
| 10 | The Audi that thought it had a clear run had to brake hard … |
| 11 | No school thought it had the perfect answer and all stressed the need for constant awareness of the problem . |
| 12 | No school thought it had the perfect answer and all stressed the need for constant awareness of the problem . |
| 13 | ‘ It was as much hers as it was Terry 's , I suppose , but the Bank he heisted it from might think it had a prior claim . |
| 14 | Hoare is acting for British Aerospace , which yesterday admitted it had a 1.7 per cent stake . |
| 15 | If whoever bought it had an unsavoury reputation it would n't do much harm to the seagulls or Brent geese . |
| 16 | Cosla complained it had no extra resources to meet the requirement , and suggested the registers would be unworkable , raising complicated questions of liability if land was found to be contaminated . |
| 17 | ‘ I think it had a green cover . |
| 18 | I was naïve enough to think it had a remote chance . |
| 19 | English , by contrast , has developed a different kind of gender ( I say ‘ has developed ’ because in its earliest form it had the Germanic three-way grammatical classification ) . |