Example sentences of "it had [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kent brewer Shepherd Neame said it had leased 60 Whitbread pubs in the south-east of England . |
| 2 | Last week Shepherd Neame said it had leased 60 pubs . |
| 3 | West Country pubs group J A Devenish said yesterday it had leased 115 pubs from Whitbread for eight years . |
| 4 | Either the tumour in my lung had grown in the last three and a half weeks , in which case it must be even more in evidence , or it had stood still , in which case today 's X-rays must be much the same as the previous ones , or it had diminished . |
| 5 | The Palings was an old building ; it had stood full face to the sea and the prevailing wind for the best part of a hundred years . |
| 6 | Too run-down and curiously situated to appeal to most families , it had stood empty for several years before Frankie 's parents made it their home . |
| 7 | David Southworth who owned the hall and who was the nephew of Tace 's widow , had done up the lodge as a home for his wife 's mother but since her death it had stood empty . |
| 8 | It had stood idle and decaying since 1914 and had lost most of its floors and part of the roof-a far cry from today 's substantial and elegant building that now houses the Cotswold Country Museum . |
| 9 | The ‘ Legitimist ’ nobility , that is those who remained loyal to the elder Bourbon branch which had been deposed by the Revolution of 1830 , kept itself aloof from the court of the ‘ parvenu ’ , just as it had shunned that of Louis-Philippe . |
| 10 | On Nov. 29 the Air Force announced that it had selected six new bases for the mobile MX missile in the states of Arkansas , Louisiana , Michigan , North Dakota , Texas and Washington . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If , at first , his rule had appeared to be to the benefit of France , in the last years it had suffered considerable setbacks . |
| 13 | When the ( west Berlin ) Senate took them over , it had to close some because they were so run-down . |
| 14 | It had given great anxiety to him and his collagues on the bench . |
| 15 | It had given great anxiety to him and his collagues on the bench . |
| 16 | The Bush administration was reluctant to forgive Africa 's debt , even though it had pushed commercial banks towards solving part of the debt problem in Latin America . |
| 17 | It 's a pity it had to happen that way . |
| 18 | It had to happen one day , but not yet . |
| 19 | It had to happen sometime and now was as good a time as any . |
| 20 | It had to happen some time . |
| 21 | When first surveyed , a few years ago , it had rendered outer walls and unprepossessing windows . |
| 22 | Eurotunnel , the company financing and overseeing the construction of the rail tunnel between France and the UK [ see p. 35469 ] , announced on May 28 , 1990 , that it had secured additional finance from the European Investment Bank , which had agreed to an increase in the project 's borrowing commitment from £1,000 million to £1,300 million , and that the majority of the 210 international banks supporting the tunnel project had agreed to allow the project to continue to borrow on its prevailing £5,000 million funding capacity . |
| 23 | The twenty year old salesman claimed he 'd just pushed the animal away with his foot after it had messed all down his clothes . |
| 24 | While officially rejecting the deadlines as an ultimatum and conceding only that it would negotiate over the vexed issue of border controls , Slovenia announced on July 5 that it had demobilized 10,000 members of its defence forces . |
| 25 | Chinese Charlie had altered the lot to fit him , and he had pressed it , too , and it had made such a difference to Ben . |
| 26 | Whatever had been achieved by the 1976 Act , it had made little impact on this case except for the removal of her name from the media . |
| 27 | By 1907 ITF activity was regarded by the shipowners as sufficiently serious to justify the setting up of an International Shipping Federation " to combat the growing forces of socialism and aggressive trade unionism " , but in reality it had made little progress in establishing international standards and the British market for seamen was still being substantially undercut by lower rates of pay of foreign labour . |
| 28 | Already it had made great play of how it had saved certain famous churches from its own bulldozers by moving them out of the path of destruction . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I had to concede it had made compelling reading , from an historical point of view , but I did not anticipate referring to its pages again , not in present circumstances . |