Example sentences of "[coord] it had [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either the tumour in my lung had grown in the last three and a half weeks , in which case it must be even more in evidence , or it had stood still , in which case today 's X-rays must be much the same as the previous ones , or it had diminished . |
| 2 | The activity at the back of the car had ceased and it had fallen silent . |
| 3 | The hospital had been built as a memorial to King Edward VII and it had seen better days . |
| 4 | Chinese Charlie had altered the lot to fit him , and he had pressed it , too , and it had made such a difference to Ben . |
| 5 | Before a prayer had formed itself , a young brown hand covered mine and I looked round to see the turbaned head of the Youngest Son , his face half covered by his head-scarf , his eyes laughing , his whole figure straight against the storm as though he and it had made some truce . |
| 6 | Because of some delay or other — line workings , Fabia rather thought — her train was late pulling into Mariánské Láznë , and it had gone twelve-thirty before she was ensconced in a taxi and on her way to the hotel which she had left — was it only three days ago ? |
| 7 | He passed the day skulking around cafes , and when Georges met him by chance later on he confessed he 'd been beaten up in his flat because he 'd agreed to do a favour for someone and it had gone wrong . |
| 8 | And it had gone bad . |
| 9 | At the Point stood the black and white lighthouse and the coast guard station , silhouetted now , for dusk was falling fast and it had turned chilly . |
| 10 | Moreover , she thought a great deal about what she was going to do long before she began working , and it had become possible for her to execute a painting with great precision . |
| 11 | By by the third Summer I think it had outlived its usefulness and it had become much more like a a mini-goose fair . |
| 12 | Kazakhstan had a very substantial Russian population 37.8 per cent of the total according to the 1989 census , almost as many as the Kazakhs themselves — but it was the home of the great majority of the Soviet Union 's Kazakhs and it had become accepted that the republic 's party and state leadership should be drawn from the national group after whom the republic was named . |
| 13 | And it had become such a popular feature of Samana life . |
| 14 | Tarvaras was a quarantine world , cut off from contact with the rest of the universe by orbiting weapons platforms which were programmed to destroy any craft which did not identify itself with the appropriate recognition codes , and it had seemed unlikely that the civilian survey crew would be tempted to break the stringent regulations which applied to the situation . |
| 15 | The substance upon which Longivex was based was scarce — located so far on only two worlds of the surveyed systems — and it had proved impossible to manufacture a synthetic substitute which did not possess deadly side effects . |
| 16 | When she 'd gone to work for the Bradfords Paddy had been left on his own and it had got worse than a pigsty then . |
| 17 | It had retained no suitable system of books and records , failed to implement an appropriate system of internal controls and it had lacked appropriate segregation of functions . |
| 18 | White and anxious , she said : Yes , she had given that bag to her daughter , and it had contained such chocolates . |
| 19 | In despair at the greasiness of her hair , Daisy had washed it in the river — how the hell had women coped in biblical times ? — and it had dried all crinkly . |
| 20 | I 'd seen the film myself in a mixed audience of youth workers , and it had left many of us women upset and shaken . |
| 21 | But it had done that before . |
| 22 | It had taken them only a short time to realise they were from opposite sides in the Therapeutic Wars , but it had caused little friction . |
| 23 | But it had become impossible for Mr Major to plod on with the same soiled team . |
| 24 | The idea of a woman who would save him was not new , but it had become real , it was no longer fantasy . |
| 25 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
| 26 | She did n't reject it , but it had become irrelevant , its comfort only a candle which served fitfully to illumine the dark . |
| 27 | Knights too were readily identifiable , but it had become imperative to make provision also for the many untitled men whose wealth was as great or even greater . |
| 28 | He said the Government was reluctant to interfere , but it had become aware of ‘ widespread detestation in Parliament ’ of some trends in the popular press . |
| 29 | It had a house which once had a thatched roof , but it had gone derelict and a tree had started growing in the middle of it . |
| 30 | Dick had probably intended to toss it into the quarry , but it had fallen short and the weight of the handles had kept it from slipping over . |