Example sentences of "[subord] it had [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The failure of the Warsaw uprising , where it had several adherents among the Russian officers of the garrison , dealt the organization a severe blow .
2 In the 1950s , the government of Colonel Oscar Osorio ( 1950–6 ) passed a law prohibiting prostitution in El Salvador , although it had little effect beyond filling the prisons for a short time .
3 Outside , the Chelsea Pensioner pub would have have been doing good business if it had any drinks to sell , but it was purely decorative ; part of garden by Hereford Wyevale Garden Centre called the outer sanctum which won a silver-gilt medal .
4 That 's if it had any sockets upstairs !
5 The usefulness of the Grand Plan , even if it had few subscribers , was that it provided a cover .
6 And because it had that name she did n't link it up to other terms like masturbation or whatever .
7 The NMA argued from the outset for a negotiated settlement , in part because of a fear that intransigence might lead to total defeat and in part because it had little money with which to fight the strike following the run-down of its funds during the 1921 lockout .
8 The woman wore a dress that seemed very short when I recalled the picture through the next few years : broad shoulders , a straight skirt that hung the way it did — I know now — because it had some rayon in it .
9 The gravest doubt which has assailed historians about Charlemagne 's moral and educational programme is whether it had much effect .
10 And erm you know the erm er , I , I do n't know whether it had any adjustment changes or what , but
11 Stephen 's voice had risen , as it had that morning in the garden , and again Kate thought that he was trying not to cry .
12 I find that an extraordinary statement of policy , because I had always believed that , in so far as it had any justification at all , the Labour party 's commitment to unilateralism , to the closure of bases , to the withdrawal from NATO , was based on a principle — on a deeply held conviction that those things were wrong .
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