Example sentences of "[subord] it have [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relations between this group and the government had been strained for some years because of the sect 's links with Libya and its occupation of a disputed eight-acre site west of the capital , where it had built a commune . |
| 2 | One example of this were the experiments of Edward L. Thorndyke who put an animal , usually a cat , in a wooden puzzle box where it had to learn a response , e.g. stepping on a lever to unlock the door and get out . |
| 3 | In some regions the transformation had taken place much earlier , as in Kent , or Essex , or Devon , where it had taken a different form altogether , and most of the fields had been reclaimed direct from forest and moorland without passing through the open-field stage at all , or had been enclosed from open field at an early date . |
| 4 | except it 's got a tail . |
| 5 | Although it had contained a tory majority since 1812 the mayor was a reformer … |
| 6 | The plan of the family part of the house ( Fig. 8c ) , from either point of view , remains symmetrical , although it has acquired a conservatory to one side , and a range of offices to the other . |
| 7 | Santa Cruz has to date kept a very low profile in Japan , although it has had a product available on NEC 9800 series personal computers for some years . |
| 8 | For the time being UNESCO is unable to send a cultural mission to Iraq to investigate the situation , although it has had a team of experts lined up since July of last year . |
| 9 | Sociology has come very late to the university , compared with the other social sciences , and although it has found a base there in a way which the arts or journalism have not , even they have increasingly strong academic connections . |
| 10 | In almost all reports in 1942 , this ‘ war weariness ’ and longing for peace , now by no means always linked to expectations of glorious victory and often highly pessimistic , dominates much more strongly than it had done a year earlier . |
| 11 | Pride and hurt would n't allow her to ask where he was , and Gaston had volunteered no information , so it had remained a mystery . |
| 12 | Once it had had a lawn and trees and borders but except for a small area , testament to one chap 's enthusiasm for vegetables , it was , says Mrs Hewer , ‘ quite ungardened ’ . |
| 13 | Once it has listed a title , other sources can be used to cast additional light upon the book before a selection decision is reached . |
| 14 | Once it has chosen a mate , it will probably remain loyal to mate and to burrow for the rest of its life — and one ringed Manx shear water is known to have lived for at least twenty-nine years . |
| 15 | Once it has found a nipple , the tip swells in its mouth so that the young is not able to let go even if it wanted to . |
| 16 | Thereafter it hammers away with great effect until it has excavated a narrow tunnel as much as three feet long . |
| 17 | Sentimental as ever , the English refrain from slaughtering the little tablefare until it has developed a taste for grass . |
| 18 | If the dog tries to follow you wait until it has readopted a sitting posture . |
| 19 | if it 'd happened a couple of weeks ago when she was about I would of kept going over like she said I could do |
| 20 | Ally Pally 's pre-restoration days undoubtedly had associations of tatty romance — they lay in the contrast between the Cecil B. De Mille bravura of the original concept and such visible signs of its decline , as if it had become a Victorian actor/manager unable to gesticulate because of rheumatism . |
| 21 | He then engaged full astern , causing the boat to stop as if it had hit a brick wall , and cried : ‘ Drop anchor ! ’ |
| 22 | She made a gesture with a graceful hand that shut me up as if it had turned a tap . |
| 23 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 24 | as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here . |
| 25 | As he tackled his cold meat loaf and salad , Hank thought he had better show some interest in his father , so he asked the back page of the newspaper if it had had a good trip . |
| 26 | I had never had him down as a kerb-crawler either , but from the state of the car it looked as if it had had a good kicking . |
| 27 | That this would be an inappropriate objection is evident from the fact that the Punch cartoon I mentioned earlier would have been almost as funny if it had figured a human fisherman rather than a kingfisher . |
| 28 | Penelope 's way home took her along St Basil 's Terrace , or if it had not done she would have arranged her journey to include it , even if it had meant a slight detour . |
| 29 | And animal minds , a fortiori , do not engage in this sort of computation ( which is why the Punch cartoon would have been less funny if it had shown a human fisherman ) . |
| 30 | Indeed , BA would almost certainly have pulled out of negotiations if it had thought a referral was likely . |