Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1789 it had assumed in most respects its nineteenth-century form . |
| 2 | It would be a much lesser work if it had swerved towards either extreme . |
| 3 | They were alone with the silently hurtling river and the great , gross wound it had made in this bank , curls of dark-red soil peeled back and rolling downhill , and a tangle of uprooted broom bushes . |
| 4 | It had gone through all its stages . |
| 5 | A former Secretary of State for Energy , the right hon. Member for Worcester ( Mr. Walker ) , on being asked about a change in the hours of work legislation by the Energy Select Committee in 1986 , said that ’ if it had gone through all its processes . |
| 6 | Er I 'm afraid a lot of it had gone by that time . |
| 7 | A figure of 0.86 livestock units/hectare of permanent grassland in Powys in 1939 shows that it had increased between that date and 1955 . |
| 8 | As we have seen in the last chapter the surface of even the smoothest glass is infested with tiny invisible cracks and even if it were not , it soon would be when it had brushed against some other solid . |
| 9 | The road he followed marked the seasonal migration of sheep from the treeless limestone plateau further inland to the watered valleys around ; it had led across this terrain since the Romans had farmed there . |
| 10 | You see , your subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined ; so , although the information it had received during those twelve days was in fact a product of Sylvia 's imagination , the effect on her subconscious was precisely the same as if it had been actual experience . |
| 11 | The crusaders had returned to their interstellar castle — which flew onward from nowhere to nowhere just as it had done for many millennia , and must continue to do for many millennia more . |
| 12 | Leith could n't help feeling extremely sorry for her , especially when she discovered that Rosemary , brought up believing that marriages were forever , could not accept that her marriage was over — even though it had ended up such a disaster and Derek was now asking for a divorce . |
| 13 | The pupils of this generation of sociologists are people like Howard Becker and Erving Goffman , and it was their work in the 1960s that gave a new lease of life to ethnographic research after it had fallen into some disuse , in British sociology at least , in the 1950s . |
| 14 | Undeniably , they offered possibilities for assured if modest financial support for the WEA , a position which it had sought for several years . |
| 15 | The association said that it had heard of several cases in which EHOs had ordered unacceptable action from wine and drinks wholesalers under the 1990 Food Safety Act . |
| 16 | Now it had come to this , the repomen at the door for the second time . |
| 17 | What had she got to lose , she seemed to be saying , now that it had come to this ? |
| 18 | Ah this was really just Yona and and me you know I mean Yona obviously felt very strongly about her father standing in the rain on the picket line worked hard all his life an it had come to this really being sacked er they were just newly sacked then . |
| 19 | The props people said they had n't touched it ; it had come like that from the place of hiring . |
| 20 | Melanie had tried to fill the bath from it only once and then it had exploded with such ferocity that the toothbrushes leapt and quivered in the rack and Uncle Philip 's toothglass had taken a suicide jump from the shelf and bounced on the floor , fortunately without breaking . |
| 21 | It had occurred to some popular frontists that rearmament as an instrument of social control could cut both ways . |
| 22 | It is equally probable that the separation of the South Slav languages into Serb , Croat , Slovene , Macedonian and Bulgarian was then in an early stage of development , if it had occurred at all . |
| 23 | At the beginning of the thirties it must have seemed as if the world was opening up at an astonishing rate , but by the end of the decade it had closed to all but those on active military service . |
| 24 | The Roman Research Trust declined to be interviewed , but a spokesman denied that it had acted in any way improperly . |
| 25 | The forest corridor through which the elephants were to walk was so heavily logged over that it had disappeared in some places . |
| 26 | Without doubt the train was following them and it had passed over several fog detonators without setting them off . |
| 27 | Closed as a church in 1970 , it had passed through several owners , all of whom had had different plans for the building , the final one being to open it as a World War II museum . |
| 28 | It had entered into these relationships with the new category of institutions while retaining its role for the validation of degree-level courses from whatever direction they might come outside the universities . |
| 29 | Of course it had belonged among those unhappy mad thoughts which she had had in the last days . |
| 30 | It had smelled like this soap today , a light , entirely distinctive smell , a little like — what flower ? |