Example sentences of "[vb past] it have [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries was strongly in demand after results today showed it had made record half-year profits . |
| 2 | Beecham claimed it had lost $24 million because of ‘ significant errors ’ in an over-optimistic YCS forecast , based on a Laboratory Test Market study , of the prospects for Delicare Cold Water Wash . |
| 3 | The Nuneaton and Bedworth Council claimed it had received letters of protest from residents opposed to a trial scheme to allow fishing on three lakes in the borough . |
| 4 | Last year the ministry claimed it had made progress , only to find it had to revise its figures to reveal no progress had been made for five years . |
| 5 | He knew it had featured Resenence Jeopardy , but the details were indistinct . |
| 6 | Well it 's years since I thought it had gone bust |
| 7 | A month ago , the UN thought it had persuaded Iran and Iraq to agree on a mixed military commission to settle some of the problems along their 750-mile border . |
| 8 | The court thought it had nailed Mr Nadir 's feet to the floor by making him post a record-breaking £3.5m ( $1.5m ) . |
| 9 | Borland also announced it had won shareholder approval for its reincorporation in Delaware , a preliminary to the company seeking a US listing , probably on NASDAQ . |
| 10 | Chevron 's swift counter-attack came a day after Pennzoil announced it had spent $2.1 billion to build up a nine per cent share stake in Chevron and said it planned to continue investing in the oil giant as a passive shareholder . |
| 11 | Software602 , the Czech Republic 's largest packaged software vendor , announced it has shelved plans to prosecute a group of Czech teenagers that it alleged had illegally copied software packages belonging to it after the Business Software Alliance refuted the company 's assertions that it was backing the case . |
| 12 | BRUSSELS ( AP ) — An unknown group called ‘ Young Palestine , Proud and Free ’ , in a letter to Belgian newspapers yesterday , said it had killed Joseph Wybran , a leading Belgian Jew . |
| 13 | Asda said it had cut prices by up to 50 per cent on more than 1,500 lines . |
| 14 | I said it had done Eddie a power of good . |
| 15 | In what looks rather like the thin end of the wedge for eventual privatisation of the phone company , BellSouth Corp yesterday said it had reached agreement to buy a 12.5% stake in France Telecom Mobiles Data SA , a newly formed unit of France Telecom . |
| 16 | Late last night , the Hungarian news agency MTI said it had received telephone calls reporting more than 30 killings in clashes in Cluj , while another source reported clashes in Arad , 60 miles north of Timisoara , where demonstrators were massacred last week . |
| 17 | The Northern Echo , based in Darlington , Co Durham , yesterday said it had received pictures of 150 terrorist suspects from a former soldier who said he wished to illustrate ‘ shambles ’ of Ulster security . |
| 18 | The Northern Echo yesterday said it had received pictures of 150 terrorist suspects from an ex-soldier who said he wished to illustrate ‘ the shambles of security in Northern Ireland ’ . |
| 19 | It said it had contacted Greece and Kenya . |
| 20 | The beater said it had happened years ago in a quarrying accident . |
| 21 | He said it had taken years . |
| 22 | BR said it had taken steps to control overtime and to ensure engineers were taking breaks in the hard pressed Southern Region , where skills shortages are most acute . |
| 23 | At that point , only one authority said it had offered training to staff on sex and sexuality , and many workers felt unable to talk directly to young people about sex . |
| 24 | Officers of the Muslim-led Bosnian government said it had urged President Alija Izetbegovic to return home immediately from Geneva , where he met international mediators , to underline the gravity of the crisis in the enclave . |
| 25 | Keith Hayes , treasurer of Middlesbrough and District Philatelic Society , which hosted this year 's convention , said it had attracted dealers from all over the North from the Tweed to the Humber . |
| 26 | The FBI said it has ceased negotiations for the time being with Texas cult leader David Koresh , holed up with his followers in a fortified compound , to allow him to talk with his lawyer . |