Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a rare act of editorial humility , the paper acknowledged that it had made the same mistake itself . |
| 2 | It was a New England trawler , the Valhalla , based on Gloucester , Massachusetts , from which it had sailed a few days earlier . |
| 3 | Numbers are very small , and of course tabular data are only an extremely crude summary of a very complex range of feelings ; however ( excluding those whose attitudes were not known or impossible to summarise ) , it appears that three carers in the action samples felt the strain had lightened , four that it had remained the same and five that it had worsened . |
| 4 | In the control samples no one said the strain had lightened , five that it had remained the same , and six that it had worsened . |
| 5 | The Leader of the Opposition simply pointed out in an article that he wrote just before the party conference that the proportion of gross domestic product — national income — devoted to education since 1979 had dropped , and that if it had remained the same , the difference would be the figure to which the hon. Gentleman has referred . |
| 6 | Latterly , however , it had become no more than a framework for the recording of successes , with little attention being paid to problems such as the intensification of production or the improvement of food supplies . |
| 7 | By 1985 it had overtaken the latter , reaching $25m. , and retained its position in 1986 with $30m. and in 1987 with $35m . |
| 8 | If only it had come a few years earlier . |
| 9 | Days later I realised he was trying to tell me about the Brighton bombing ; it had occurred the same morning . |
| 10 | It had sold a few thousand copies in the years before the 1976 court case : within three weeks of its acquittal 600,000 copies were purchased by an avid public . |
| 11 | It had taken a few days to persuade her ladyship to accept change , for she had for so long been used to living in squalor that she could not at first accustom herself to an altered way of life . |
| 12 | 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 . |