Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He retained an affection for Paris and a gratitude for the intellectual advantages that it had given him to which he later referred as pope . |
| 2 | She felt as if she never wanted to go back into the house , as if it had tied her with a million cobweb fine lines , as the Lilliputians had trapped Gulliver , and that she could not get free . |
| 3 | It had prepared her for the coming meeting when she would be alone at last with the youth who was King of England ; the youth she loved … |
| 4 | Shocking as the assault had been , it had prepared her for another encounter — an encounter with a youth of her own age , bewildered and uneasy , one called to high estate who found himself of a sudden alone on the edge of an abyss … |
| 5 | Demonstrating what a simple change at the top can achieve , Compaq Computer Corp , which had sales of $3,200m last year and had been heading back towards the $2,000m mark under the previous regime , last week announced that it had made it through the $4,000m sales barrier for 1992 , with profits up 34% in the most recent quarter . |
| 6 | It had soon passed , but it had alarmed her at the time . |
| 7 | Indeed , if anything , it had insulated them from urban industrial life . |
| 8 | And though it had struck her as a slightly odd remark for a man on the brink of marriage to make , she most probably would n't have thought any more about it if he had responded to the way she had light-heartedly picked up on it with his usual unassailable self-assurance . |
| 9 | It had arranged itself around bright canvas bags and wicker baskets in the part-shade of a fishing-boat . |
| 10 | The question turned off Lomax 's interest like a tap that realises it had flooded itself into deep water . |
| 11 | It had touched him on a raw spot . |
| 12 | Indeed , there could be no other topic of conversation since it had hit them like a bomb-blast on the early-morning news bulletin . |
| 13 | Whatever mysterious spirit had unlocked the verse , it had freed him for other human satisfactions , for love ; or was it the other way around ? |
| 14 | It had freed itself from the stairwell and could smell them , not far above it and within easy reach . |
| 15 | Beautifully maintained , it had seen her through Cheltenham , Oxford , Nairobi and three years in a large parish in south London . |
| 16 | Her baby was due in five days and it had tasted nothing but tears . |
| 17 | Her existence , he now realised , had implications far beyond her abrasive and insistent presence : it had tethered him to a distant shore . |
| 18 | She said she had seen the programme and wondered if it had spoiled anything for me , but I was able to reassure her that it had improved my life . |
| 19 | It had lost none of its splendour , as old as it was , as little as had his memory . |
| 20 | Under the old system , the Leader of the PLP would be seen to enjoy the confidence of that body because it had elected him through an exhaustive ballot . |
| 21 | Then he read a textbook of hers about the craft of the dramatist and it had stopped him from showing her anything for a year . |
| 22 | That has since happened in England and Wales , although the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities said it had heard nothing in the past year from the Scottish Office . |
| 23 | Although administered by a council , which met three times a year to review policy , it had undergone none of the post-war modernization and investment that had rescued the rest of the farming industry from the crippling effects of war . |
| 24 | It had worried him for a moment , he had n't been quite sure what she meant , but then he reckoned she was referring to the troubles . |
| 25 | He was without a car for two days and claimed it had cost him at least £300 in business . |
| 26 | It had moulded itself across his shoulders , hanging elegantly , all lovat with leathered cuffs . |
| 27 | She could feel the thick phallus-shaped wedge burrowing further and further into her gaping hole until it had impaled her to the hilt . |
| 28 | This was n't the first time it had got me into trouble , but I intended to make damn sure it was the last . |
| 29 | The tall , straight young back that sauntered away down-river , to come about in a wide circuit via the fence of the curator 's garden , and the box hedge that continued its line , maintained too secure an assurance , and too secret a satisfaction of its own , in spite of the dexterity with which it had removed itself from censure . |
| 30 | But she could n't let him see that it had meant something to her . |