Example sentences of "[vb past] it had [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bit the shell of one and gave the kernel to her , and then bit another and pretended it had broken one of my teeth and I was in too much pain . ’ |
| 2 | The round-up took two weeks and the army found it had to move 232 elephants . |
| 3 | the trouble was in many ways is the man that booked it had had thirty five years ' experience of removals , he knew all the country you see . |
| 4 | But when the morning came it had seemed disgraceful to pretend illness and let everybody down . |
| 5 | He admitted fondling his ex-girlfriend 's daughter , but Social services assumed it had accurred 5 years before and his own children were n't in danger . |
| 6 | A FRESH row brewed last night over the contentious Channel Tunnel rail link through the south-east of England after the Labour Party claimed it had obtained full details of the route . |
| 7 | Transport costs cut into that favourable balance ; the Company reckoned it had to sell Indian cotton textiles at 2½ to 3 times their Indian price to cover costs , and dividends were not normally above 7 or 8 per cent a year . |
| 8 | At this point , my body decided it had had enough . |
| 9 | Europe felt it had contained this communist menace within itself . |
| 10 | ‘ And they knew it had broken loose ? ’ |
| 11 | Thought it had gone quiet for a s Have you put your tails on there yet ? |
| 12 | Recently the National Trust announced it had bought large areas of the Mournes , including Binnian and Donard , so with good management , facilities and access might improve without the area losing its appeal . |
| 13 | Kleinwort Benson , which disclosed it had purchased 200,000 of its own shares at 353p each , rose 11p to 366p and Hambros edged ahead 3p to 232p . |
| 14 | The army denied it had attacked civilian targets , but Sarajevo television showed several homes damaged by rockets in the village of Siroki Breg . |
| 15 | British Telecom said it had redirected 300 numbers by last night . |
| 16 | But the resistance has already scored an important propaganda victory against government forces , only a week after Vietnam said it had withdrawn all its troops from Cambodia . |
| 17 | Ms Kennedy , who is writing a book on women in the criminal justice system , said it had become common practice in rape trials to employ women lawyers for the defence . |
| 18 | But BR said it had employed 5,000 extra staff nationwide and invested an extra £85million on safety in the past year . |
| 19 | Kent brewer Shepherd Neame said it had leased 60 Whitbread pubs in the south-east of England . |
| 20 | Last week Shepherd Neame said it had leased 60 pubs . |
| 21 | American Express , which has put a ‘ fraud alert ’ warning on its April statements , said it had refunded all complainants in full . |
| 22 | American Express , which has put a ‘ fraud alert ’ warning on its April statements , said it had refunded all complainants in full . |
| 23 | In its report , the pollution inspectorate said it had received 80,000 responses — 77 per cent of which opposed approval of the plant — but found " no points of substance " to cause it to reconsider the terms of its draft licence for the plant . |
| 24 | Speaking at the end of the two days of talks , Mrs Thatcher said it had helped some countries combat inflation . |
| 25 | Speaking at the end of the two days of talks , Mrs Thatcher said it had helped some countries combat inflation . |
| 26 | But yesterday Forum rejected the criticism and said it had put seven names to Mr Adamec for the cabinet posts . |
| 27 | It said it had sold 38,000 NT developers ' kits to date . |
| 28 | I said it had to come one day , did n't I ? ’ |
| 29 | He wished it had happened that way . |
| 30 | When the war ended it had reached 200,000 and by the early 1920s there were a quarter of a million Boy Scouts . |