Example sentences of "it had [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was neat as a new pin and showed no signs of the going-over it had suffered when Newman was last there . |
| 2 | It had echoed after she 'd left him , as she 'd turned into the archway in the wall and passed through the shrubbery of azaleas and magnolias and tree mallows , as she 'd passed through the drawing-room and the hall . |
| 3 | It had to happen before there could be true reconciliation of nations and before countries could begin to live and forget . |
| 4 | He must have been the tenant for , in 1812 , the mill had been bought by Peter Playne from the Wade family , in whose hands it had remained since around 1758 . |
| 5 | And so it had remained until the scoops and cranes and bulldozers of 1970s Post-Industrial Man had moved in to uproot the scrub and to build the suburb known as Greystone Edge . |
| 6 | Shortly before he died Churchill visited Biggin Hill and spoke of the role it had played when Britain stood alone against Germany . |
| 7 | The dominating size and aggressive shape of Sandweg church reminded Miss Danziger that it had played as great a part in the physical defence of the island as in its spiritual well-being ; but , although its size and shape were awesome at a distance , the church became increasingly a place of sanctuary as she neared it . |
| 8 | What we are trying to argue for is to try to prevent the cost , the pain , the hurt that is experienced after a divorce by alerting people to the fact that a divorce wo n't solve all their problems , it will transfer one set of problems for another and our great concern in this report is to go back one step , not just to speak to people who are experiencing hurt , but in the hope that we can say something before it reaches the stage that it had reached when they came to you . |
| 9 | Of recent British policy , Dulles privately remarked on 6 May 1957 : " It seems to us to have been characteristic of a nation which , realizing that it was weak , felt it had to act as though it was strong " . |
| 10 | I gave it a wide berth and went to sit on the rug , but of course it had gone so I sat on one of the chairs instead , had a good long wash and settled down for a nap . |
| 11 | He dropped the wig into the papyrus-chest , wondering what he would do with it , and whose head it had adorned before Nubenehem had come by it . |
| 12 | Robyn enquired with as much derisive sarcasm as she could muster , deliberately blocking out the memory of how wonderful it had felt with Luke and how sordid and somehow dirty it had felt when Callum had touched her . |
| 13 | It had felt like she was going mad . |
| 14 | It had felt as though sparks were going round and round inside her head and flashing out of her eyes . |
| 15 | To her it had felt as though something special was happening between them . |
| 16 | " It had killed before it met us , " said Blackberry with a shudder . |
| 17 | It rustled round her ears as it had done before she went into mourning . |
| 18 | It no longer aroused feelings of exasperation , as it had done when he failed to link what had amounted to a form of work paralysis with the hopelessness which Dave must have felt about himself both at home and at school . |
| 19 | I think a medical problem different say for instance for myself I got an awful bash on the nose playing badminton and they thought it was broken , however it mended and I wished it had broken because its mended a bit , but I do not believe in spending money on cosmetic surgery because I think if you make the best of what you have and think of all the people were mutilated by disease |
| 20 | It would be sensible to cut off most of her hair , but so much of it had grown when her parents were alive that it seemed somehow unfaithful to their memory to scissor it all away . |
| 21 | This result she attributed to the very short duration of persistence of the icon , which meant that it had faded before the cue could be utilised to sample selectively . |
| 22 | The centralizing and autocratic nature of papal monarchy as it had developed after the Gregorian Reform of the eleventh century was probably the principal underlying problem behind the sixteenth-century Reformation . |
| 23 | Authority had decreed when I must sleep and when I must not , just as it had decreed when and how much I should eat ; it was my business , in my bid for autonomy , to reverse the decisions of authority . |
| 24 | He had slipped up in using Tweed 's name because it had sounded as though he 'd been one of the casualties . |
| 25 | It had ended when he knocked her to the ground and slammed out of the room , hearing her laughter following him down the corridor . |
| 26 | She came to a familiar boulder ; it had fallen where the river met the hollow that over the years had become the pond . |
| 27 | It had to go because he could make more money having erm the three caravans on the site that this occupying . |
| 28 | I did n't look at my watch , but I found out later it had stopped so it would have been wrong anyway . |
| 29 | You had to be in at a certain time you know , you had very standard cuisine , it was , it had become if you like , ridiculed in jokes and things of this nature . |
| 30 | There could be said to be a ‘ Structural crisis ’ for Europe over its position in the World in the immediate post-war period because it had become as Churchill said ‘ A rubble heap , a charnel house , a breeding ground of pestilence and hate ’ . |