Example sentences of "[coord] it had [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discipline had thus successfully established and maintained the continuity of the English genius as an at once moral , human ( i.e. engendered ) , and poetic force ; and it had developed procedures for regulating the admissibility of particular fictional works to this field of predominantly male-to-male discourse . |
| 2 | He 'd said something similar once before and it had made Ronni feel a tiny bit guilty . |
| 3 | My father-in-law had moved the money into the Pyramid Building Society in Melbourne , which was offering the best interest rates available at the time , and it had gone bust . |
| 4 | It was a verdict which had fired many a nationalistically minded but hitherto passive young Irishman to join the IRA , and it had prodded Denis into convincing himself that the time had come for him to stop wavering and take an active role in his country 's struggle . |
| 5 | He was working at ICI Billingham at the time and it had become habit , from his days as a London businessman , to wear a flower . |
| 6 | He had passed by the very spot only the other day , and it had brought tears to his eyes . |
| 7 | His mind had been prepared for an impossible radiance and it had taken time to absorb a new set of signals . |
| 8 | And if that was you know you could , I supp , you could argue that the French revolution had been built on notions of liberalism and it had encouraged nationalism in Europe . |
| 9 | I had been preoccupied with the alchemical vision for some time , but it had become words , ideas , a mere prejudice in favour of the angels , if you like . |
| 10 | Labour protest in the cities might pose no immediate security risk but it had gathered pace ominously throughout the 1870s . |
| 11 | But it had stopped Lord Woodleigh in the most horrible of ways . |
| 12 | But it had taken Duncan Bradford 's vision to persuade his agent that James was gifted enough to be worthy of the expense involved in letting him study medicine . |
| 13 | The aim of the programme had been to divide the big farms into smaller plots and to redistribute the land to the workers , but it had bred uncertainty among landowners and entrepreneurs many of whom , unwilling to part with their property , had delayed investment . |
| 14 | The first glass works in south Yorkshire had been erected in 1632 at Glasshouse Green , Wentworth , on the estate of Sir Thomas Wentworth , the great Earl of Strafford , but it had ceased production before the Civil War . |