Example sentences of "[subord] it had a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said that the company adhered to health legislation in every country where it had a market . |
| 2 | Within a dozen years Philadelphia , its capital , was among the half-dozen largest English towns in North America and , although it had a population of only a few thousand people , very few towns in England apart from London were much larger . |
| 3 | Soccer fans would n't mind if the job was given to a hermaphrodite , provided it had a place in the Cabinet , an important voice in decision-taking and an avowed policy to improve sport in Britain , not just soccer but across the board . |
| 4 | If it had a companion , the climate of any of its planets would be decidedly uncomfortable . |
| 5 | A moan rises from the wind , as if it had a spirit . |
| 6 | If it had a centre , that lay in the triangle formed by the cities of Angers , Tours and Poitiers . |
| 7 | At all events it seemed that the Cold War , if it had a victor , had been won by the West . |
| 8 | If it had a self , perhaps this was its face : split by wounds and doubt ; pitiful ; lost . |
| 9 | From what Wayne had been able to see of her left eye , it had looked as if it had a couple of drops of blood in it . |
| 10 | If it had a name , or a code word , well that sounds like civil servants playing games . |
| 11 | She had been foolish enough to ask if it had a name . |
| 12 | If it had a door and a wall and |
| 13 | If it had a secret she would do her best to discover it and she was not going to miss the trail across the Mountains of the Moon to what was undoubtedly the greatest small picture in the world . |
| 14 | Dalgliesh said : ‘ If it had a row of turrets it would be a rather different shape . |
| 15 | There was a moment of silence as their gazes locked , and his last sentence seemed to hang in the air , as if it had a meaning beyond the surface value of the words . |
| 16 | His crushed throat felt as if it had a lump of stone lodged inside it . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's as if it had a mind of its own ’ , ’ Grimma read . |
| 18 | I should prefer the headland without it but it 's beginning to look as if it had a right to be there . ’ |
| 19 | It also enabled him to wrap his hand round the glass , even if it had a handle , in a manner peculiarly his own . |
| 20 | If it had a face , it would have been sneering . |
| 21 | Esther says of Mrs Jellyby : her voice impressed my fancy as if it had a sort of spectacles on too Ch 8 and of Mr Turveydrop : |
| 22 | That value is small compared with the potential value that a search firm would have if it had a market quotation ; there would be a significant number of new millionaires were that to happen . |
| 23 | But when when erm when I unwrapped it , cos it had a bottle a , that big bottle with it as well , that little bot , where 's the little bottle ? |
| 24 | He wouldn'y take a poke o' soor plooms unless it had a pint o' heavy at the bottom . ’ |
| 25 | In the end we chose Viseu as a diversion , because it had a VOR/DME and we could descend safely overhead to 1,500 feet agl above the airfield . |
| 26 | He sought resolve and found a little and went to lie down on the bed to read a paperback of Anna Karenina , which he had always fancied because it had a scene on a railway platform . |
| 27 | I decided on the Waterside because it had a phone , beer you could n't get anywhere else in London and a very interesting turnover in young French female chefs . |
| 28 | But today in a faxed letter , he confirmed he bought the property because it had a clause allowing eviction and added : |
| 29 | The estate in Bradford where people told us they could not get credit because it had a reputation for housing defaulters ( see Appendix II , section 5 ) is an example of a physical credit ghetto , and depth-interview respondents in Finsbury ( London ) told us that their experience suggested that ‘ it has a bad name for credit ’ . |
| 30 | They slept it off , not getting up till around eleven next morning , Rufus in the principal guest room , Adam at the other end of the house in what he christened the Pincushion Room because it had a picture on the wall of St Sebastian stuck full of arrows . |