Example sentences of "had [vb pp] it a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gifford Tate had painted it a few weeks before she died . |
| 2 | By the time I had heard it a fifth time , one of football 's most respected managers stood accused of everything from gross indecency to impotence . |
| 3 | But the experience had been short and isolated and the moonlight had given it a sufficient touch of unreality for me to be able to fire my machine gun at everything I saw without scruple . |
| 4 | It had been Great-Aunt Alicia who had considered it a marvellous and exciting opportunity and persuaded her to accept it . |
| 5 | He had said it a hundred times over the past blissful hour together , and each time the sound of it had been even sweeter . |
| 6 | She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women . |
| 7 | Ever since the aborted rebel Wallaby tour to South Africa in 1987 , French had made it a personal goal to see the Springboks return to the international stage . |
| 8 | The world shortage and price rises had made it a rare delicacy for ordinary citizens , but David Laing liked to sip and swig constantly . |
| 9 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
| 10 | She had thought it a foolproof notion , but had slipped up on detail , like so many . |
| 11 | He must have been trying to hide the feelings that the sight of Rocamar conjured up , for he himself had dubbed it a romantic dream — and the dream had failed . |
| 12 | The soldiers had found it a long and tiring period . |
| 13 | She had found it a few days earlier and feeling an immediate love for the place , determined to find time to sit there . |
| 14 | The next morning we walked up the glacier and did a lengthy rock scramble , the Trifthorn ( 3,728 metres ) , partly to acclimatise , and partly because Martin had tried it a few years earlier and failed to reach the top . |