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 . |