Example sentences of "it [vb past] [vb pp] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem in relation to whether the car was new arose because , before the car was delivered to the dealer , it had suffered some damage in a collision in a compound . |
| 2 | Before a prayer had formed itself , a young brown hand covered mine and I looked round to see the turbaned head of the Youngest Son , his face half covered by his head-scarf , his eyes laughing , his whole figure straight against the storm as though he and it had made some truce . |
| 3 | The EMS , founded in 1979 , had not collapsed as had been predicted in many quarters , rather it had achieved some success in stabilising exchange rate fluctuations , and in helping to promote convergence of inflation rates . |
| 4 | It had adopted some of the theology of sixteenth-century Reformers and some of the learning of nineteenth-century Protestant scholars , but very little of it was genuinely very modern in terms of the second half of the twentieth century , and hardly anything in it challenged in the slightest the more basic dogmas of Catholic theology , Trinitarian , incarnational and sacramental . |
| 5 | She had never seen her mother 's withered leg ; indeed , imagining it had fuelled some of the worst nightmares of her childhood , worse even than Afghanistan which was at least safely half a world anyway , not just down a corridor , released from its sheath of leather and metal , grotesque and awful . |
| 6 | Overall , it could by the end of the transitional phase claim that it had changed the basis of economic competition by removing many restrictive practices and that it had eased some of the pain of economic decline by its policies towards those aging coal and steel plants that were coming to the end of a useful life . |
| 7 | While it had received some decent Mk 2 air-conditioned stock , the maximum speed of its fleet of diesel locomotives was 90/95mph ; average city-to-city speeds compared unfavourably with other parts of the InterCity network , and initially BR replied to local pleas that HSTs could not provide the answer , implying stagnation until perhaps the route was electrified and received APTs that could take the curvatures in their stride . |
| 8 | In the year of revolutionary upheaval It had seen some of its predictions fulfilled , and a movement created which , as it developed , had less and less to do with the first publication out of the underground . |
| 9 | Army losses were given officially as 178 dead ; the LTTE acknowledged that it had lost some 500 fighters , whereas the government claimed over 2,000 Tigers killed in the battle to Aug. 3 , and a further 500 in " mopping-up operations " in the succeeding days . |
| 10 | For a moment it seemed as though it had tapped some hidden reserve of strength and would ease itself up on to the opposite bank , and escape into the forest . |
| 11 | Even so , it had taken some little effort on his part , for here was this relatively obscure relation who had fallen into an estate , which , although small , was of no mean value , and he had fallen into it by a series of dead men 's shoes . |
| 12 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 13 | It had taken some labour to restore : a gang of builders had spent months ripping down hardboard partitions , taking out gas meters , attempting to rescue old parquet flooring , refitting windows , stripping paint from tiles . |
| 14 | It had taken some time to reach a decision , but eventually they had come across to check their bonds were in place , and then had gone off . |
| 15 | Speaking at the end of the two days of talks , Mrs Thatcher said it had helped some countries combat inflation . |
| 16 | Speaking at the end of the two days of talks , Mrs Thatcher said it had helped some countries combat inflation . |
| 17 | Technically , it had finished some months before , but there was a lot to do . |
| 18 | But where Paula 's hair had shone and bounced as if it had caught some of the morning 's sunlight her own was straight and mouse coloured , where Paula 's eyes were the clearest , sharpest green hers were muddied to a very ordinary shade of hazel . |
| 19 | This below-par performance was partly reflected in our share price , which fell sharply in the summer , [ though in line with the market it had recovered some ground by the year-end ] If , by Feb 11 , the price is on the way down , omit words in [ ] |