Example sentences of "it had [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It had its moments , ’ said Helen evasively . |
| 2 | So in fact the crinoline , although in some ways it had its disadvantages , I think it was a good deal more comfortable than , than wearing a lot of petticoats and being very restricted like that . |
| 3 | Æthelred 's henchmen were perhaps able to stifle or ignore discontent for much of the time , but even so it had its price . |
| 4 | As such a unique exercise it had its rewards and its penalties . |
| 5 | As a seduction suite it had its shortcomings , he reflected as he unzipped his jeans , stepped out of them , and slung them onto the sofa with the rest of the day 's rubbish . |
| 6 | Quedlinburg is now an unimportant town in the formerly East German Land of Sachsen-Anhalt , but it had its decades of glory in the early Middle Ages when it was closely connected with the German imperial court . |
| 7 | Grumble as they might about the Masai 's unbudging attachment to their traditional ways , many administrators , particularly in the later years , came to see that it had its advantages . |
| 8 | Although invariably kind and courteous he had the air of seeming not to be particularly interested in human beings — a somewhat doubtful quality in a parish priest , though it had its advantages . |
| 9 | Straight away though , despite the technical wizardry of the medium , he found it had its limitations . |
| 10 | But it had its problems , even so . |
| 11 | The Eurocurrency market is a wholesale market ; it had its origins in holdings of US dollars outside the US in the sixties at a time when the US authorities were placing restrictions on capital exports . |
| 12 | She had n't needed to speak Danish to realise the contents of the bottle : the water of life … call it would you would … it was pure unadulterated spirit and it had its equivalent in every country of the world which indulged in alcohol , so potent it should only be consumed in small doses as the tiny , liqueur-sized vessels that Rune placed on the table testified … |
| 13 | The idea of Simultaneity first appeared in the preface to the Futurist exhibition at the Bernheim Gallery : it had its origin in Boccioni 's series of States of Mind , and was primarily the Bergsonian concept that a picture must be a synthesis of what is remembered and what has been seen , a synthetic visual impression comprising not merely the various aspects of a single object , but any feature related to it , physically or psychologically . |
| 14 | It had its roots in the areas of Altarnun and Menheniot , ( where young Jonathon was christened ) , but by this time the family was well established at the house still known as Trelawne , at Pelynt , near the Looe to Polperro road . |
| 15 | Inevitably it had its roots in the previous reign and some of Edward IV 's actions made their contribution to events after his death . |
| 16 | This was part of his belief that poetic composition was not an activity that could be consciously controlled , that it had its roots far down in the unconscious . |
| 17 | Inevitably it had its roots in the previous reign and some of Edward IV 's actions made their contribution to events after his death . |
| 18 | But on the other hand this hostility to the new God was not an original reaction either ; it had its prototype in a hostile impulse against his father , which had come into existence under the influence of the anxiety-dream [ concerning wolves and mentioned earlier in the analysis ] , and it was at bottom only a revival of that impulse . |
| 19 | Already it had its place in local balladry . |
| 20 | No it 's er it came today and it had its balance on its ticket and I 've rung them up and er |
| 21 | Unfortunately for the Patent Office , the advertising agency failed to ensure that it had its facts right — and the Patent Office did not check the agency 's new advertisement . |
| 22 | It had its effect : Ornette Coleman heard it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It had its effect on our lives undoubtedly , particularly mine . |
| 24 | Already it had its father 's athletic limbs . |
| 25 | It had its beginnings in 1972 with the establishment of the first ‘ Conference Of The United Nations On The Environment , ’ held in Stockholm . |
| 26 | Archaic , of course , but it had its points . |
| 27 | In my own studies of theatre audiences and of book reading habits in the United Kingdom I found , when I began , that there was very little published at all on who goes to the theatre and , while there was more information available on adult reading habits , much of it had its source in America and much of what was available in Britain referred to borrowing from libraries but excluded book buying . |
| 28 | It is not without significance that it had its source in a campaign which effectively combined Cobdenite principles of free trade with a ‘ bellicose philanthropy ’ worthy of the most self-righteous of Victorian imperialists . |
| 29 | He would have preferred it had their arguments led directly to immaterialism , and showed not merely that we do not know what qualities material objects have , but indeed that they have none , or even that there are no such objects . |
| 30 | His body was a sculpture of muscled perfection ; his expertise in what he did with it had her breathing with wonderment . |