Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until 200 years ago it had stood in the Berlin Stadtpalais for which Fiedler had also executed the panelling , flooring and cupboards . |
| 2 | The formal agreement of the League was , however , necessary as it gave the campaign a much closer connection with the Labour Party than if it had appeared as a personal crusade by Cripps . |
| 3 | It had appeared for a while that Coronation Street 's rival EastEnders , boosted by a weekend omnibus , would oust it from top spot in the ratings . |
| 4 | A plan of it had appeared in the Architects ' Journal the previous Friday , and it also appeared in The Times the morning after the Prince 's speech . |
| 5 | So too is the reason why , when the matter of their being able to meet was raised in parliament ( after an article about it had appeared in the Sunday Times in May 1964 ) the Home Secretary , Henry Brooke , denied that the pair had ever met which was plainly untrue . |
| 6 | According to the conventional wisdom , fusion required great heat and hence could only have happened when the Earth was being formed ; however , if the Earth is five billion years old , all the helium would by now have risen away , yet it was there in amounts suggesting that it had appeared in the atmosphere only recently . |
| 7 | It had appeared in the garden of the villa one morning soon after Nour had returned for the holidays . |
| 8 | The raid took less than five minutes , but the damage suffered by Exeter was greater than it had suffered in the Baedeker raids , and there was greater loss of life , over 250 people being killed . |
| 9 | The Hong Kong economy performed poorly in the first half of 1990 , but not nearly as badly as in the second half of 1989 when it had suffered from the international reaction to the upheavals in China . |
| 10 | A campaign based on petitions , letter-writings , and revelations of inadequacies and irregularities in the development 's plans , persuaded the government to reverse the initial approval which it had given to the scheme . |
| 11 | Iris held it in front of her nose , showing the scratches and scuff marks it had collected during the nerve-racking passage to Fernand 's cave . |
| 12 | It had rained for a fortnight when he , his wife and two children took up residence in the 12 room Ben Alder Lodge . |
| 13 | It had rained during the night but our tents were snug and dry . |
| 14 | The parade ground was surrounded by trees and it had rained in the night ; the cobbles under our feet were wet and puddled . |
| 15 | Its circulation had grown enormously as immigrants flooded into Tollemarche , and it had expanded into the shops which flanked it on either side . |
| 16 | Just as it was consolidating its gains , however , the Party was forced to make another somersault , which largely destroyed the advantages it had secured through the various Unity campaigns . |
| 17 | It had made for a lively few hours but now that they 'd gone the place seemed oddly , unnaturally quiet again . |
| 18 | In spite of the sacrifice it had made for the High Dam at Aswan , whose turbines generated megawatts of electrical power , Wadi Half a still had no electricity . |
| 19 | The bank , which paid £70million to have its headquarters constructed , said it was ‘ delighted ’ , although it declined to say exactly what book profit it had made on the deal . |
| 20 | In support of a recent complaint it had made to the EC Commission , Tretorn cites Article 85(1) ( d ) and Article 86(c) of the Treaty of Rome , which refers to ‘ dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties , thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage . |
| 21 | Turning to the specific task on hand , he commended the gas turbine division as a whole for the great strides it had made over the last few years and stressed the important role that LTS had played in the division 's growth . |
| 22 | By 1372 England had suffered a naval defeat at La Rochelle and lost most of the gains which it had made by the time of the treaty of Brétigny ; in the following year much of Brittany was lost ; in 1375 another spectacular naval defeat was suffered ; and in 1376 and 1377 the south and east coasts of England were alerted under threats of invasion or raids . |
| 23 | The snow made horizontal lines of white where it had lodged between the timbers . |
| 24 | Already it had blackened on the collar of his white coat and a small pool had separated and congealed on the Lab floor . |
| 25 | It had functioned as a workshop throughout , in contrast with the other two which remained entirely agricultural . |
| 26 | The train had already left Sion when the avalanche struck and with the possibility of further minor falls it had retreated to the sanctuary of the station where the passengers were told it would remain for the rest of the night . |
| 27 | It was a shocking thing , no doubt , but compared with her future , which suddenly seemed to hold out enticing prospects of a new and exciting life , it had retreated into the background . |
| 28 | Its distinctiveness lay in the degree of autonomy it had achieved from the ‘ dominating ’ class , a class which in fact was ‘ hardly emerging from destitution and darkness and has no tradition of dominion or command ’ . |
| 29 | We sailed down the reaches of the Thames and , standing in the bows , I saw the river through the eyes of Marlow in Conrad 's Heart of Darkness , as a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home or to the battles of the sea " . |
| 30 | The main loser in the election was Rengo-no-Kai , a loose political movement backed by Japan 's largest labour organization , which , shortly after its formation in 1989 , had won 11 of the 12 seats which it had contested in the upper house elections . |