Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had given me a world of wonder and time to draw it all in . |
| 2 | He had headaches , toothache , his anxiety about the coming week and how he would cope with it had given him a fever . |
| 3 | By the time he sold it at auction ( Sotheby 's , New York , May 1989 ) it had given him a real net annual rate of return of just under 20 per cent , after allowing for commission , insurance and inflation . |
| 4 | They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too . |
| 5 | It had given him the chance to go on talking to and getting to know children and he was sure he would know if a boy was telling him the truth . |
| 6 | It had given her a sense of power that was almost ethereal . |
| 7 | Anna had explained , and it had given her the opportunity to describe details her daughter found miraculous . |
| 8 | He had held on to her hand as her flight was called , and it had given her the way out without tears . |
| 9 | It had made me a coward as well as a lecher . |
| 10 | They thought it was best to know what you were up against , but Preston was n't sure it had done them a lot of good in the long run . |
| 11 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
| 12 | With the usual lack of euphemism , the overseers enter the rubric ‘ Dead ’ against her name at the beginning of 1786 ; their accounts for 10 January indicate that it had cost them the grand sum of 3s. 9d. to bury three paupers : ‘ West Wife ; Titford and Robbans ’ . |
| 13 | He swallowed ; it had cost him an effort to speak in such a way to his mother . |
| 14 | The essay , on ‘ The Dangers of Smoking ’ , had cost Hank a number of Sundays of hard work , and he estimated that he must have smoked at least eight packs of cigarettes while writing it , but to his astonishment it had won him a hundred dollars . |
| 15 | It had taken her a long time to get over that . |
| 16 | It had taken them a while to find the taxi-driver . |
| 17 | He made me a desk with a roll-top and secret drawers and a matching leather stool ; a huge Tudor doll 's house with leaded windows and roses round the door , filled with hand-carved furniture ; a bow-windowed shop with a sign saying ‘ Lynne 's Store ’ and shelves stocked with dozens of tiny tins of Heinz products — it had taken him a year to cut out all the miniature Heinz logos from magazine adverts , which he had stuck to one-inch lengths of silver-painted dowelling . |
| 18 | It had taken him a long time to adjust himself to this , but now it no longer irritated him , and he felt only pity for his wife . |
| 19 | Ken Stevens loved both his girls and Rachel knew it had taken him a long time to come to terms with Jennifer 's illness ; she doubted he would ever forgive David Markham for walking out on her at such a crucial time . |
| 20 | First he reminded us that it had taken him no time at all to find the Ardakkean thief — an off-world technician working in one of the phetam refining plants . |
| 21 | It had taken us an hour to walk but had taken the men who drove it thirteen years of drilling and blasting through 748 fathoms of solid rock to build it . |
| 22 | It had left her a little awe-stricken and she made a move to look at it again as it lay on her dressing-table . |
| 23 | The remedy could have been more appropriately applied if those prescribing it had offered us a clearer understanding of what a clause is and how far it may be similar to various other structures . |