Example sentences of "it had its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It had its rough times , very rough times , ’ remembered Miss Hayes , who never remarried . |
| 2 | It had its posh end and it had its rough end and it had that strange indeterminate bit in the middle that was neither , but had the pretensions and failings of both . |
| 3 | It had its famous university at Padua ( from which , it may be remembered , the learned doctor Bellario was to come to defend Antonio against Shylock in The Merchant of Venice . |
| 4 | As a species of conspiracy it had its persistent weakness : fear of discovery led to revolt before the compromisos were firm enough . |
| 5 | It had its usual effect . |
| 6 | The NGA was , at one point , fined £150,000 ; some time later it was fined £375,000 and it had its entire assets of £11 m seized . |
| 7 | It had its posh end and it had its rough end and it had that strange indeterminate bit in the middle that was neither , but had the pretensions and failings of both . |
| 8 | Having crossed the Siemens ' Brothers homeland , it then clipped through a southern corner of Russia heading for Tehran , where it had its only interconnection before continuing on to the Indian sub-continent . |
| 9 | It had its Arcadian examples — like all revolutions it dug into antiquity for help and respectability and dynamic metaphors — and Mary could be seen , that morning , in woods as sun-speckled as a thrush 's throat , as a shepherdess from the Hellenic world , a Grace from their pagan earth-suckled legends , but above all a spirit of the place . |
| 10 | But it had its positive aspects . |