Example sentences of "it had [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was originally a corn mill but converted for paper production ; by the 1900s it had reverted to corn milling . |
| 2 | The good responders showed a persistent improvement in external anal sphincter function , while in the poor responders it had reverted to prebiofeedback values . |
| 3 | It had to proceed through persuasion and encouragement — a difficult process with public-sector bodies , but almost impossible with major companies . |
| 4 | Everard stood up , embarrassed by her lack of control ; the family trait had skipped him by , but it had surfaced in Kit with a vengeance , and of course , as he might have expected , been compounded in Kit 's daughter by Astrid 's capriciousness . |
| 5 | A dispute over the conflicting constitutional rights of press freedom ( enshrined within the First Amendment ) and the right of a defendant to a fair trial ( the Sixth Amendment ) arose from an attempt by Cable News Network ( CNN ) to broadcast tapes which it had obtained of telephone calls made by the deposed Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega , who had been imprisoned in the USA since January 1990 awaiting trial on drug trafficking charges . |
| 6 | It had to do with romance and adventure , with Lord Byron and Lord Elgin , with archaeology and theory . |
| 7 | Where employers did see value in work experience schemes , it had to do with information about career choices . |
| 8 | Mostly it had to do with Time . |
| 9 | It had to do with height and space . |
| 10 | Vadim 's Et Dieu Créa La Femme ( 1956 ) was the watershed film which liberalized the cinema , but only after it had run into censorship trouble everywhere , especially in the United States where the Hollywood decency code still insisted on separate beds for married couples . |
| 11 | It had struggled from beginning to end , had depended entirely on charity throughout its four-year existence , and now the girls working there were being irresponsibly left destitute . |
| 12 | It had gone down hill before she took over and she wanted to turn it around again . ’ |
| 13 | However , while most Arab states might have gone along with this ( if only to worst Abdallah ) , it was clear that Jordan would not contemplate the loss of the gains for which it had gone to war . |
| 14 | Oh absolutely yes , unless it had gone on fire . |
| 15 | If it had gone on fire , we 'd have rescued it . |
| 16 | He liked seeing her like that , even although he was cowering under his coat collar trying to keep dry , still surprised at how easily it had gone at home . |
| 17 | He had not observed that , from the gale it had been , it had risen through level after level of violence to a power that no man living on Orkney had ever experienced or was to experience again . |
| 18 | It had poured with rain ; a total cloudburst , thunder cracking and grumbling in the skies above the city . |
| 19 | Like many a similar building it had declined in status but in recent years it has been handsomely restored to its former glory . |
| 20 | The Nauruan government , which was unhappy at being forced to pay A$21,000,000 for the phosphate facilities which it had inherited after independence from the British Phosphate Commissioners ( BPC — established by the governments of the Australia , New Zealand and United Kingdom ) never accepted that the matter had been settled . |
| 21 | The agreement sought to break down Ford 's rigid bureaucratic system of categorizing semi-skilled production work and the craft demarcations it had inherited from craft unionism . |
| 22 | The room was deserted and desolate : the arctic blue bubble of the drinking water machine looked as if it had turned to ice , two desk lights burned pointlessly above unoccupied desks and the rubbish bins were still brimming with polystyrene cups and waste paper . |
| 23 | The bird was found in a field after it had flown into power cables . |
| 24 | The disquiet and consternation he had set up among the brothers would go on echoing and re-echoing for some time , while he who had caused it had recoiled into numbness and exhaustion . |
| 25 | She was not content to be insulted in cafés by waiters more rude than any to be found in Northam ; she could not accept the lowliness of her status , for it seemed to pain her more abroad than it had done at home , and she felt that she should somehow have escaped it , that she should have been changed , somehow , into something new . |
| 26 | The concern known since 1873 as the Gutehoffnungshütte A.G. was by no means the largest in the Ruhr , but by then it had extended from iron-founding into quarrying and mining iron ore and coal — it produced practically all the 215,000 tons of iron ore and half the 415,000 tons of coal it required — and had diversified into transport , rolling and the construction of bridges , ships , and a variety of machinery . |
| 27 | Katya went crazy over it before it had broken into leaf , just as she did with catmint . |
| 28 | In France , for example , the domestic CP market was launched at around the same time , but by the end of 1990 it had grown in size to FF165 billion , around four times the size of the UK market ( see Table 6.10 for a comparison of commercial paper markets in Europe , the ECP market and the US CP market ) . |
| 29 | General Haig had predicted an advance of four thousand yards a day , but it had ended in retreat . |
| 30 | The channel was now only ten , perhaps twelve feet deep and fifteen feet wide : since it had fallen into disuse as a waterway it had , over the years , become silted up with layer upon layer of sludge . |