Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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1 | The ‘ Legitimist ’ nobility , that is those who remained loyal to the elder Bourbon branch which had been deposed by the Revolution of 1830 , kept itself aloof from the court of the ‘ parvenu ’ , just as it had shunned that of Louis-Philippe . |
2 | Now I think what te , what happened there was we er , we drifted away from setting down sc , er , er , scripts to finding good useful key words and phrases out of the paper that we could then fit into the script , and as it had gone that way , I realised it was working , and did n't see any point in trying to get it back to the way it was originally going , because it was going fine . |
3 | It 's a world away from J. M. Barrie 's classic story — and you ca n't help feeling it could have been better if it had followed that more closely . |
4 | But it had done that before . |
5 | It was n't , it definitely was n't the tablets because i if , if it had done that to you , it would have been all day . |
6 | If it had done that , we might have had a sensible dialogue with British Rail , but it did not . |
7 | A flicker of rebellion stole into her mind and , as if it had needed that impetus , one clear thought struggled free . |
8 | He wished it had happened that way . |