Example sentences of "[subord] it had [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Michael Codron , it marked the start of an outstanding production career — which had seemed to bode so ill for him during the run of The Wit To Woo , a play that had no happier associations for him than it had for Ken . |
| 2 | The drought had not yet taken a stranglehold , although the landscape looked parched and drier than it had for years . |
| 3 | Until very late in the day , the possibility of their downfall does not seem to have occurred to Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu , any more than it had to Zhivkov or Honecker . |
| 4 | With the advent of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ , this sleepy village was to see more changes in a decade than it had in centuries . |
| 5 | When they arrived at the college , it seemed even more forbidding than it had in daylight , and as she walked from the car towards the entrance , Loretta felt as though she were about to cross a threshold in time as well as space . |
| 6 | The European Court has in fact held that the internal competence may be exercised at the same time as the external competence so that the Community acquired the power to negotiate an international agreement before it had in fact exercised its internal powers , and this theory had in fact been taken further in the fisheries sector in the judgment in the Kramer cases . |
| 7 | The house was destroyed in World War II , and the Roselli assumed lost , though it had in fact been transferred to Switzerland . |
| 8 | And all the while , as it had for aeons and always would , the giant battle-monastery flew onward through the lonely void , towards nowhere at all . |
| 9 | Her heart was beating wildly as it had for days whenever the telephone bell rang anywhere she happened to be . |
| 10 | As it had for Hegel , consciousness again becomes a significant element in the process of history for Lukács . |
| 11 | The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters . |
| 12 | The poem describes how ‘ even when he was in France ’ — in the context of the poem it is reasonable to presume the front line trenches — ‘ the sun still woke him as it had at home ’ . |
| 13 | What would happen if something went wrong there , as it had in America , people began to ask . |
| 14 | T his new economic process , assisted by an increasing effective demand , was to have the same impact on feudal manufacturing structures as it had in agriculture — it destroyed the old order of things . |
| 15 | It had been bloodied and battered by the impact of the car but , curiously , its handlebar moustache looked as trim and correct in death as it had in life . |
| 16 | Iraq had made a formal request ( as it had in July — see p. 39026 ) for the easing of the embargo which , it claimed , had caused numerous civilian deaths owing to the lack of essential food and medical supplies . |
| 17 | Tit for Tat itself , indeed , came out top in five out of six runs of Round 3 , just as it had in Rounds 1 and 2 . |
| 18 | But Yugoslavia maintained restrictions which prevent the Soviet navy from coming ashore in Yugoslavia as it had in Egypt . |