Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prosecution alleges that , to justify the shooting , the soldiers said they opened fire on a stolen car after it had struck one of their patrol . |
| 2 | An unworthy book in many ways , indeed in all perceivable ways , it had engaged one reader in that intimate way that we associate with capital L ‘ Literature ’ . |
| 3 | I bit the shell of one and gave the kernel to her , and then bit another and pretended it had broken one of my teeth and I was in too much pain . ’ |
| 4 | The Collector sat on an oak throne which had been chipped out of the mud rampart for fuel , but had not yet been used , though it had lost one of its front legs . |
| 5 | Soon it had become one of the main topics of conversation . |
| 6 | By 1915 it had become one of the obsessions by which Curtis was possessed serially in the course of his long and active career , and , of all his many projects , the political evolution of India was the one where he could most truly claim to have made a direct contribution to events . |
| 7 | He 'd once walked out , in a sixteen-year-old child 's sulk , on a family dinner-party , and his father had always chided him about it — it had become one of those family memories that everyone always laughs at , always shares . |
| 8 | By this time it had become one of the principal Manchester manufacturers of engines and boilers , with a considerable export trade to Russia and India ; up to 1866 it had built over 1,800 boilers and about 200 engines since starting in business in 1835 . |
| 9 | The Judge said if it had cost one penny more he would have been hanged . |
| 10 | It had entered one of the tents , but a moment later emerged and raced at Tallis , light reflecting in dull eyes . |
| 11 | On Oct. 14 the ruling Military Committee for National Salvation ( CMSN ) amended an electoral law it had promulgated one week earlier . |
| 12 | It had rejoiced , as alien coteries naturally do , in its own intellectual isolation ; and in disdaining narrative , or at least fast-paced narrative , it had disavowed one of the native strengths of the tradition . |