Example sentences of "it had [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Such as the time when the very inebriated gentleman , at 2 a.m. , wanted to know how to stop his budgie falling off its perch , because he thought it had cramp in its legs !
2 Built diagonally on the corner of the top floor of the mansion block , it had windows on three sides and an extra reception room .
3 It had repercussions throughout Europe .
4 Retson , Virginia-based Network Imaging Corp has agreed to acquire Optix SA for shares worth $39m : Optix is a document imaging and optical storage technology company headquartered in Paris ; in the year to March 31 1992 , it had earnings of $2.5m on turnover of some $40m .
5 Amnesty said that it had evidence of children being detained , either on suspicion of illegal political activities , or with their fathers , some of whom were serving heavy sentences for their alleged involvement in the attempted coup of 1981 [ see pp. 31353-54 ; 31563 ] .
6 So that was the last And I do n't think if he went back after that I think it had kind of frightened him , least so my father used to tell the story .
7 but of course , it had kind of stirred up a hornets ' nest !
8 It had claws like an eagle talons ; she could hear them shredding and splintering the wood .
9 And it was pink paper and at the top it had space for your parent 's signature so that when you 've done the work your parents had
10 It had pride of place .
11 And she stared at it , glad to have been told that it was not good , for she could make nothing of it : it stood about five feet high , on a stone lump , and it had holes in it and stretching arms .
12 It had things like happy and dopey and grumpy .
13 Cos I 'd cleaned it up the other day cos it had mildew on the bottom of it !
14 An informant from Aberdeen , where the last women were still working up until the 1950s , told me that these elderly women sometimes had little to do , were regarded rather as passengers and had to put up with rather disparaging remarks , but were kept on until retirement age by the firm , which felt it had obligations towards them .
15 Colin Chapman , however , had his doubts and was convinced that if it had barriers around it , similar to those at Monaco , Clark would never have died .
16 The shareholders of the holding company entered into a shareholders ' agreement which stated that it had precedence over the Articles of Association , and clause 3 of that agreement provided that " no further share capital shall be created or issued in the company … without the written consent of each of the parties hereto " .
17 And it was real crisp and it had prawn in it .
18 I forget whether it had wings on it or not .
19 It had A's up there .
20 The keyboard surround is also rather flexible , it had provision for 11 mounting plates but only six were fitted , and this added to the slightly tacky feel .
21 It had undertones of social war .
22 This was the most interesting thing she had ever heard Elizabeth say , because it had undertones of cynicism , of self-mockery .
23 It had bottles of pills in it — and an open envelope stuffed with twenty-pound notes .
24 There 's a walled cemetery on one side and well in those days it had railings round the cemetery on the other side .
25 It had wheels on the bottom and a handle inside , which he turned to get him from place to place .
26 It was red and looked too small to be a lorry but never the less it had wheels like the carts in the village .
27 Two of its lead investors declined to participate : MIPS because it had problems of its own and Singapore-based Wearnes Technology Pte , its manufacturing arm , because it reportedly got distracted by a PC deal with IBM .
28 But It had problems over the issue too .
29 The plane was loaded down so much that it had difficulty in skimming the tops of those large mountains , but I was not troubled , thinking that the pilot was a well-trained American , until after an hour of this mountain hopping a small Chinese face appeared at the cockpit door and said , ‘ Is you all all-lite ? ’
30 And it had slats on it .
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