Example sentences of "it had [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The movement whose new star he became in 1934 soon showed the public how greatly it had gained strength . |
| 32 | It said it had contacted Greece and Kenya . |
| 33 | It is perhaps ironic that , with such a volume of water just a few yards from the doors , it had to use steam . |
| 34 | In the past , it had to use customers ' own equipment to develop applications . |
| 35 | It had to carry conviction with a better educated , more discriminating public . |
| 36 | When it had beaten Cranborne junior School by three hundred runs , two Saturdays ago , he had linked arms with the headmaster and sung three verses of ‘ We Are the Champions ’ . |
| 37 | It had plucked Mariana from the pillion seat , skittering her against the current like a flat stone skipped across a pond . |
| 38 | Now , by the chaos of war , and because the exiled Napoleon had returned to France and thrust a new period of battle on Europe , Sharpe was a lieutenant-colonel in the 5th Belgian Light Dragoons , a regiment he had never met , had no wish to meet , and would not have recognized if it had formed line and charged him . |
| 39 | At first it had affected Mr Cosmo very little , but when the little screen began putting out quality material , the Cosmo ( then under the control of George 's son Ronald Singleton ) was no longer viable and the family sold it , with great reluctance , to the Scottish Film Council . |
| 40 | Over the next ten years it had averaged £23 billion a year . |
| 41 | When CNN reported on Nov. 8 that it had obtained tapes of his telephone calls , Noriega 's chief lawyer , Frank Rubino , successfully petitioned District Judge William Hoeveler ( the judge presiding over the case ) for an injunction prohibiting the network from broadcasting any material which violated the confidentiality of the attorney-client relationship . |
| 42 | Kroll said that it had detected $2.4 billion in Iraqi-controlled deposits at some 50 banks . |
| 43 | Mission scientists stated that it had detected traces of water , carbon , hydrogen and metals in Grigg-Skjellerup , providing further clues as to how the solar system was formed approximately 4,500 million years previously . |
| 44 | Labour protest in the cities might pose no immediate security risk but it had gathered pace ominously throughout the 1870s . |
| 45 | It had to do determination and persistence . |
| 46 | In September it was asked by the MOD how much scope it had to lift ammunition production ( it provides about 45% of the ministry 's total purchases ) . |
| 47 | It di nobody wanted to do it , he had a big head it had lopped ears |
| 48 | By 1906 it had reached South Yorkshire and the North Midlands ; by 1914 Lancashire . |
| 49 | In 1980 new bank and building society lending was £15.7billion and by 1988 it had reached £82billion . |
| 50 | The claim for damages for loss of expectation of life is limited to a moderate conventional sum ; by 1985 it had reached £1,750 ( Kralj v McGrath [ 1986 ] 1 All ER 54 ) . |
| 51 | In fact he underestimated the level the national debt would reach ; by the beginning of the war with France in 1793 it had reached £242,900,000 . |
| 52 | In what looks rather like the thin end of the wedge for eventual privatisation of the phone company , BellSouth Corp yesterday said it had reached agreement to buy a 12.5% stake in France Telecom Mobiles Data SA , a newly formed unit of France Telecom . |
| 53 | The Dutch company announced at the end of last week that it had reached agreement to buy Liber AB in Stockholm , Sweden 's second largest publishing group . |
| 54 | BP announced last night that it had reached agreement with Venezuela 's state oil company to re-activate the Pedernales oilfield in the Orinoco delta which has been out of production since the mid-1980s . |
| 55 | He calculates that in 1870 0.6% of the population of the USA were engaged in clerical work ; by 1970 it had reached 18% . |
| 56 | The only problem was it had to incorporate Wings … ’ |
| 57 | It had saved lives . |
| 58 | ( a ) Would Jeremiah Allen 's company have been so successful if it had certified boilers but not insured them as well ? |
| 59 | Then there was the printing works : it had kept pace with the changing times and if it was put on the market there would be plenty of interest . |
| 60 | Sheer shock at the vindictiveness of it had kept Paige rooted to the spot , and then her brain had started to work again . |