Example sentences of "it had [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last week it had positively snowed letters and business . |
| 2 | A garbled version of it had somehow reached England . |
| 3 | It had not obtained assessments for schemes when it should have . |
| 4 | It had not escaped Cecilia 's notice that to many people , even today , old women are objects of ridicule . |
| 5 | It had not escaped Oldfield 's attention that even young , inexperienced artists signing to Virgin were commanding 3 or 4 per cent more than he was . |
| 6 | It had not crossed Flora 's mind that St Saviour 's might need payment for teaching her , only that her place there depended upon her ability to have the right uniform , all the uniform , down to the last sock garter and science overall . |
| 7 | However , the following day , when the floorboards were removed to examine the beam , it was found to be so deeply cracked in two places that they ascribed the fact that it had not given way to a ‘ wonder of [ God 's ] providence ’ . |
| 8 | The report deeply angered Price Waterhouse because it had not given evidence to Senator Kerry 's subcommittee . |
| 9 | It had not helped Sylvie get over Caroline 's death . |
| 10 | I thought of the empty coal yard , and how much it had not needed fire watching . |
| 11 | But it had not eluded Jack Stone , and he had thought that Stone was as prepared to pay his time in prison , in order know return to that normality , as Chrissie was to pay her time in waiting for him . |
| 12 | Away from Stroudwater the industry seems rather to have remained in the hands of independent craftsmen : in eight places where cloth was made , the structure of wealth resembled what was commonly found in parts where it had not taken root , with perhaps three of the four £100 men belonging to the gentry . |
| 13 | That there were many factors to be considered is shown by the fact that in 1880 the depression was only just beginning to be felt by industry , while it had already hit agriculture badly . |
| 14 | UNITA , which had unilaterally downgraded the status of its delegation shortly before the talks , further claimed that it had already made concessions including the recognition of the ruling MPLA as a political party , and of President dos Santos as head of state . |
| 15 | It had already invested £33 million in drilling projects to assess the feasibility of pumping cold water four miles below the surface into fractured hot rock and drawing it up sufficiently heated to generate power . |
| 16 | It had already shared dinner and such a tough mouse deserved all the nourishment it could get . |
| 17 | Gandhi 's implicit suggestion here is that it had yet to support non-violence for , as he says , bishops still felt able to support slaughter in the name of Christianity . |
| 18 | At least it had n't created uproar . |
| 19 | The electric drill had not yet been invented or if it had , it had n't reached Scotland , and Hector bored holes in teeth with a fearsome foot-operated machine . |
| 20 | It had n't taken Benedicta long to realize that it would be sheer cruelty to keep the marquis 's protégée penned within the confines of the convent . |
| 21 | It had n't taken Sister Anne long to discover how intelligent Topaz was and , as the former was a born teacher , she forgot all about the gold earrings and the unseemly deportment and got down to business . |
| 22 | It had n't taken Sid long to dispose of the monster . |
| 23 | On Sept. 24 the Deputy Prime Minister , Tariq Aziz , justified the detention of the team , saying that it had wrongfully seized personnel records . |
| 24 | It had also hindered trade relations with the United States , where Congress 's 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment prohibited the US government from granting export credits to the Soviet Union until it allowed free emigration [ for December 1990 special waiver of Jackson-Vanik amendment see p. 37921 ] . |
| 25 | It had also generated complacency and an insufficiently productive , administratively-oriented work-force . |
| 26 | If the Old Testament had foretold the Messiah 's entry into Jerusalem on an ass , it had also citied precedents for his cleansing and purifying of the Temple . |
| 27 | It had also introduced postgraduate diplomas and higher doctorates to supplement the undergraduate , masters and doctoral degrees it had decided on at an early stage . |
| 28 | It had even caused Dad to get in touch with her ( although apparently for the past three or four years , he had been collecting cuttings … ) |
| 29 | It had been seen nine years before at Kangaroo island and in 1840 came to us in thousands — running about the streets and Gardens and into the houses as if it had never seen man before . |
| 30 | And at the foot of the iron structure was a high steel fender , suggesting from its dull surface that it had never seen emery paper since the day it left the foundry . |