Example sentences of "it [vb past] have [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She watched it with mild curiosity ; it seemed to have a life of its own . |
| 2 | It seemed to have a life of its own as the needle ate up the cloth . |
| 3 | It seemed to have no power to affect the father . |
| 4 | With nothing else to read , it seemed to have the edge on the income tax manuals ( though non-believers would say only just ) , so you can imagine how bad I felt when I opened it to find most of the pages had been razored to provide a nest for a small brown envelope . |
| 5 | It seemed to have the knack of attracting some of the most bizarre characters who spent a great deal of the inter-war years building up little empires for themselves with scant regard for any overall espionage policy . |
| 6 | It claimed to have the authority of the past and the patronage of the saints in bringing to the world the fruits of monastic discipline and devotion . |
| 7 | This term always had this broader sense until , in the mid-nineteenth century , it began to have a capital M and a personified sense restricted to the episcopate , or more often just the papacy , as holders of teaching authority ( see Congar , 1976 ; Hill , 1988 , pp. 75–88 ) . |
| 8 | Following on this discussion , the shop decided that it needed to have a policy on career development and it was suggested that ACTS and Staff Council should produce a joint paper. ; A group is to be formed to look at the paper with Sarah Hughes , Bridget Middleton and Peter West in consultation with colleagues ; they will consult with Staff Council concerning a joint paper . |
| 9 | Not knowing what it meant to have a past , he did n't miss it . |
| 10 | But Elton probably would n't mind exchanging his sparkling shorts to suffer Adams ' lumberjack shirts if it meant having a song at number one for 16 weeks like the Canadian rocker did |
| 11 | On the other hand , it did have a sign saying ‘ bar-food ’ , and Loretta realized she was quite hungry . |
| 12 | But it did have a garage and it did have a telephone box . |
| 13 | They wrapped it up and gave it to her , and it did have a head like a baby . |
| 14 | The court recognised that it did have a discretion under the Rules of the Supreme Court to allow service to stand despite the failure to comply with the relevant Rules , but declined to do so on the facts ; it would take ‘ a very strong case ’ , for example express representation by the defendant that the method of service adopted was lawful , before the discretion would be exercised . |
| 15 | But it did have a garage and it did have a telephone box . |
| 16 | I think it did have a lot to do with the status that being different conferred , for in spite of the austerity of our childhood , we believed that we were better than other people , the food we ate being a mark of this , because our mother told us so — so successfully that even now I have to work hard at actually seeing the deprivations . |
| 17 | Drink never loosened his tongue , though it did have an effect on his sizable nose which , like Bardolph 's , was a beacon in the dark . |
| 18 | It appeared to have a road running to within a few kilometres . |
| 19 | So it had to have a structure . |
| 20 | It had to have a break in it somewhere , but it too should n't be obvious from the outside . |
| 21 | I said women should have a choice : the hospital said it had to have a policy . ’ |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | And the stream … it had had a name once , but she could n't remember it . |
| 24 | The torrent of weeping afterwards left her feeling as weak as any new-born , but it had had a cleansing and calming effect . |
| 25 | Last autumn President Bush said that what was wrong with the Soviet Union was not so much its ideology as the fact that it had had an ideology at all . |
| 26 | However it had had the effect of making her very careful , after her own children were born , about the way she spoke to them . |