Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] [prep] some " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 It had occurred to some popular frontists that rearmament as an instrument of social control could cut both ways .
4 The forest corridor through which the elephants were to walk was so heavily logged over that it had disappeared in some places .
5 He had already done some painting in Vienna and it had shown in some of the very early exhibitions at Euston Road School .
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