Example sentences of "it had [num ord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was an old carriage , but still well capable of performing the task set for it when it had first joined the rolling-stock in the year that Holly had been born . |
| 2 | The Court had a discretion on a reference by the Attorney-General ; it had first to decide whether the sentence was too lenient , and then whether it was unduly lenient . |
| 3 | He was reminded of something he had read somewhere : that it was seldom wise to return to any former haunt hoping to recapture the same pleasure it had first given , because it was sure to be different and disappointing . |
| 4 | It had first opened in December 1948 , sporting leopard-skin covered stools and a bamboo-festooned bar . |
| 5 | On the same day that he received Palmerston 's letter , he replied that he had not intended to say that Gothic was re-established as the leading English architecture of the day , but rather its history and origin made a strong case for its revival in those countries where it had first flourished . |
| 6 | Israel had been subjected to similar harsh international criticism when it had last deported a group of Palestinian activists , in May 1991 [ see p. 38213 ] . |
| 7 | Three years after disaffiliation and the beginning of the United Front the ILP had less than one third of the membership on which it had last affiliated to the Labour Party . |