Example sentences of "it had [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The forensic scientist had finally left the road at last light , certain it had nothing more to yield . |
| 2 | It had its posh end and it had its rough end and it had that strange indeterminate bit in the middle that was neither , but had the pretensions and failings of both . |
| 3 | ‘ It had its rough times , very rough times , ’ remembered Miss Hayes , who never remarried . |
| 4 | It had its famous university at Padua ( from which , it may be remembered , the learned doctor Bellario was to come to defend Antonio against Shylock in The Merchant of Venice . |
| 5 | As a species of conspiracy it had its persistent weakness : fear of discovery led to revolt before the compromisos were firm enough . |
| 6 | It had its usual effect . |
| 7 | The NGA was , at one point , fined £150,000 ; some time later it was fined £375,000 and it had its entire assets of £11 m seized . |
| 8 | It has been debated on several occasions and it had its Second Reading in May 1989 when it was introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing , Acton ( Sir G. Young ) . |
| 9 | If Docherty 's dismissal from the manager 's job at Manchester United had unspoken religious undertones , it had its greatest impact on a close-knit catholic family back home in Glasgow . |
| 10 | It was still a walled city , the walls were all virtually intact , the castle was a bit ruinous , but it was there , and it had its four main gates , erm East Gate on the important London Road going out past Magdalen and over Magdalen Bridge , erm the North Gate here , the Westgate by the Castle , and then still existing then but not in your map if you can find it , the South Gate across the road , just at the bottom of Christchurch , can you find Christchurch on your map ? erm Now , perhaps you can that there 's a difference in Christchurch on your map with this one . |
| 11 | It had its posh end and it had its rough end and it had that strange indeterminate bit in the middle that was neither , but had the pretensions and failings of both . |
| 12 | Having crossed the Siemens ' Brothers homeland , it then clipped through a southern corner of Russia heading for Tehran , where it had its only interconnection before continuing on to the Indian sub-continent . |
| 13 | It had its first official meeting after a Union talk on heterosexism . |
| 14 | Brahms took three years to complete his second piano concerto , and he was 48 when it had its first performance ( 1881 ) with himself as soloist , in Budapest — then the twin capital , with Vienna , of the Austro-Hungarian Empire . |
| 15 | It had its own brickworks , cloth mill and farms , and was largely self-sufficient . |
| 16 | When I became chairman of Hepworths , it had its own clothing plant and it either produced too much or not enough of the right quality at the right price at the right time . |
| 17 | Though it still needed to learn to live with the ways of the new peoples , it had its own mature traditions , and cultural and institutional development , encapsulating much of Roman civilization and fitting it to play a decisive role in shaping the new Germanic societies . |
| 18 | By 1907 it had its own herdbook and numbered about 35,000 . |
| 19 | He 'd got some internal engine — it drove him , it had its own reasons , it propelled him and off he went . |
| 20 | Snaith was a Peculiar , ie it had its own ecclesiastical court and in many ways it was exempt from the jurisdiction of the Bishop , which may explain the fact that the Bishop 's inspectors came to interview the brothers at Snaith for reported ‘ indiscretions ’ and were unable to carry out their inspection because the brothers had summoned the ferry to the Snaith bank so they could not cross the river ! |
| 21 | Robert Luterell , younger brother of Sir Geoffrey Luterell , who commissioned the famous Luterell Psalter , gave his house called ‘ the Gannoc ’ on St. Peter 's Street for use as a school , and it had its own chapel of St. Mary . |
| 22 | It was different from England : it had its own systems of law and education , its own church , currency , literature , music . |
| 23 | Like any vast industrial complex , it had its own substantial railway sidings to move and accept train loads of iron ore and to ship the completed products en route to its customers worldwide . |
| 24 | It had its own liturgy and Mass , both of which incorporated distinctly Eastern , non-Roman elements . |
| 25 | But Fordism — it is argued — was established in the UK and , moreover , it had its own geography . |
| 26 | It had its own permanent staff ; hence user — staff interaction was significantly greater than in other user groups . |
| 27 | It had its own unique ways of safeguarding objects in its care , and its own ways of keeping the galaxy 's criminal predators at bay . |
| 28 | It had its own inquiry desk , and a girl took me to Lennis at once . |
| 29 | He had gingerly opened the Book , which was chained to the octiron pedestal in the middle of the rune-strewn floor not lest someone steal it , but lest it escape ; for it was the Octavo , so full of magic that it had its own vague sentience . |
| 30 | And as I said , it , it was er , it , it , it , it was , it was denigrated but it had its own strengths , and the Margaret case er , is , is one of them . |