Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this was one creature , it had stood over half a mile high . |
| 2 | It had stood here for 300 years — a revolutionary building when it was built … until it was destroyed in a fire in 1952 . |
| 3 | Would that he had , he thought — how shamelessly it had flashed away , that spot of his time — ‘ What will you do with it when you get it ? ’ |
| 4 | I asked if she had made a separate tension swatch for the stocking stitch , to which she replied yes and that although she used stitch size 7 for the Fair Isle and 5.2 for the stocking stitch , it had matched exactly ( ? ) . |
| 5 | It had appeared suddenly , from nowhere , and it was the face of an extremely old man with white hair . |
| 6 | Between them — or , more accurately , forming a triangle with them — is an eighth-magnitude star , named Sidus Ludovicianum in 1723 by courtiers of the Emperor Ludwig V , who believed that it had appeared suddenly . |
| 7 | We saw that the storm had changed a lot of things as soon as we came to the river that marks the end of the island ; it had swollen hugely , carving immense channels out of the sand , great surging brown trenches of water streaming by and tearing lumps from the banks continually and sweeping them away . |
| 8 | Back in the waiting room it had gotten twice as crowded . |
| 9 | It had rained again , leaving the streets dark and shining , and the wheels of the car hissed across the damp road . |
| 10 | The Saarbrucken trip had been a disaster ; it had rained continuously . |
| 11 | It had rained heavily earlier and the exhausted trodden ground seemed refreshed and cleansed . |
| 12 | It had rained heavily during the night — a sudden downpour which had filled the gutters and drains which supplied the city 's water catchment system — so that when dawn broke it could be seen that many of the drapes and festoons over archways and down the faces of stands and platforms had been torn from the frames by the weight of the water which had soaked them . |
| 13 | I was convinced that something had happened in our absence ; something had indeed happened — it had rained hard during the night and early morning — which was strange for that summer when we had a period of almost drought conditions . |
| 14 | It had rained overnight but now the sun was breaking through and the scene had a certain gaiety . |
| 15 | It had rained very hard the night before and the windows of the office were extremely dirty . |
| 16 | By lunchtime on the 12th of October 1993 it had rained so much that schools were closed . |
| 17 | There was a dawdle in its pace , and there had been times when it had halted completely , other times when it had slowed to a crawl . |
| 18 | But they claimed it had halted near by . ’ |
| 19 | And that little bottle was still half empty , and all the tissue paper inside really smelt heavily of perfume like it had leaked already . |
| 20 | I said what would I like to say , disgusted with the way he 's been treated , I said my father left intensive care at one o'clock on Friday , we was told he was gon na leave there at four o'clock to go home and have a meal and be with him when he went on the ward , when we came back , he 'd been moved , he 'd gone on the ward , he was plonked in the chair , his catheter was on his lap , it had leaked all over him , his dressing was hanging off and seeping with green stuff the wound on his leg was run all down over his foot , he 'd got no cover on his seat so he could see , Dave said they looked and they did n't look very bloody nice |
| 21 | When I joined they had just published The Thorn Birds so Futura was on a real high — it had expanded considerably over the previous 18 months . ’ |
| 22 | The castle of Richmond filled an obvious gap in Gloucester 's domination of Richmondshire , although the lack of it had made little practical difference to his position there , since Clarence seems to have played no part in northern affairs after 1471 . |
| 23 | The castle of Richmond filled an obvious gap in Gloucester 's domination of Richmondshire , although the lack of it had made little practical difference to his position there , since Clarence seems to have played no part in northern affairs after 1471 . |
| 24 | There was also hostility towards the report from some of the provincial premiers who had opposed Meech Lake on the grounds that it had made too many special concessions to Quebec . |
| 25 | It had surged forth in that dreadful shop in London , when he had stood transfixed — not , as Helen thought , by bunches of guinea-fowl but by the bare arms of the butcher 's lad adroitly trimming a carcass on a block beneath . |
| 26 | Climbing up to the right and beyond Cow Dub , I followed the beck , dry where it had drained away through the limestone but flowing where the bands of sandstone outcropped , until on the open fell the limestone gave way to glacial moraine and the beck gurgled noisily back down towards Cow Dub . |
| 27 | It had travelled well and the colour emphasised her astonishing fairness . |
| 28 | By the time the family had become aware of it , it had travelled too far south . |
| 29 | It had hung limply in the cupboard for nearly three months . |
| 30 | Although throughout the preceding century case law decisions had narrowed its scope and denied its extension to any trade not in being at the time of its passage , it had remained nevertheless of great importance as a legitimating symbol of skilled labour 's " rights " . |