Example sentences of "it had [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had nine tins of cream in it . |
| 2 | ‘ It had sixteen teeth in the top jaw , ’ Albert said , ‘ which means its wisdom teeth too . |
| 3 | It had black sheets on it , and George was not sure if that was their original colour or just the result of years of use . |
| 4 | It had tiny windows like a prison , and a high brick wall all round it . |
| 5 | The prevalence of the idea of the Second World War as a ‘ good war ’ in Anglo-American culture makes it very hard to appreciate that those who tried to prevent it had good reasons for doing so . |
| 6 | To those who argued that the policy was deluded , its sponsors could answer that it had good aims in view ; indeed , the more glaring the disappointment , the more glowing the colours in which those aims were painted . |
| 7 | The house had not the vistas or the parkland of Auckland Castle , and its chapel could hardly compete with the chapel at Auckland , but it had good walks along the Ouse . |
| 8 | Tanzania is caught in this trap : it had good rains in 1986 and its cotton crop doubled from the previous year . |
| 9 | His work was swiftly taken up in Germany , where it had close relations with that of Weber and Kohlrausch ; and it was there that H. R. Hertz , for whom Maxwell 's theory was no more than Maxwell 's equations , demonstrated the existence of electrical or radio waves in accordance with the equations . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , it had serious repercussions on one of the housing stresses of London . |
| 11 | In 1982 West Germany discovered it had serious problems with its forests — results of research indicated that half showed signs of ill health . |
| 12 | Because it had negative assets of £1m , and Cables and Flexibles and Seacoast turned in below-par results , Biermann said there were insufficient distributable reserves to pay a final dividend . |
| 13 | ‘ The MCC made a profit of £568,000 last year , it had administrative expenses of £2.2 million which included Pounds 47,000 spent on ‘ hospitality ’ — now they begrudge us the paltry sum of Pounds 17,000 for a worthy cause for the good of cricket . |
| 14 | Rudd designed his monocoque car for 1963 — ‘ it had clever tricks like inboard variable race suspension , but it was a dog ’ — and also he found himself committed by Sir Alfred to building a Le Mans car powered by Rover 's gas turbine . |
| 15 | It had regular contacts with Constantinople , notwithstanding its northern position ( near the city of Leningrad ) , by means of the river Dnieper and the Black Sea . |
| 16 | It had four companies with only a 67 per cent . |
| 17 | It had four storeys above street level , where importantly there was a boutique ( a shop for the sale of musical instruments ) and atelier ( workshop ) ( document 5 ) . |
| 18 | Sure enough , it had four processes around the mouth which looked like antennae . |
| 19 | Well that 's right , even with help from upstairs , I mean , if it had four wheels on right , alright . |
| 20 | You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it . |
| 21 | Unlike most dinosaurs it had sharp teeth with which it ate smaller creatures . |
| 22 | It had all sorts of implications . |
| 23 | It had all trees on it and looked as if it had been made for picnics . |
| 24 | When she came back from changing , her haircut was a boy 's , except that it had new-born-looking curls at the nape of her neck , which knocked him out for a bit . |
| 25 | It was the first contact between the LDP and the North Korean government , and marked a significant shift in policy by the latter communist regime , which had hitherto rejected overtures from the Japanese government on the grounds that it had diplomatic relations with South Korea . |
| 26 | It was not that she was parsimonious or disapproving of alcohol , simply that she knew it had adverse side-effects on Liza and , not being much of a drinker herself , she only kept a small supply in the house . |
| 27 | It had many difficulties in controlling M3 , which proved to be an unreliable barometer . |
| 28 | This is the view cogently expressed by David Holbrook and it had many supporters among numbers in the National Association of Teachers of English . |
| 29 | Apart from this book that was thirty pounds , it had two pages in it . |
| 30 | When built 1622 was equipped with continuous stepboards , which means that it had two stepboards per side to allow for entry from ground level . |