Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] it [vb past] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French monarchy under Louis XVI was by contrast in many ways a shadow of what it had been under Louis XIV . |
| 2 | By the late 1930s , the birth rate was about three-quarters of what it had been at the end of the First World War . |
| 3 | It was sad when it died ; sad because of the memory of what it had been like when there was still hope . |
| 4 | Before I left , I told Eliot that I was still toying with the idea of writing the book on politics , which had increasingly been absorbing me , and I described to him something of what it had been like to live under a benevolent dictatorship . |
| 5 | He always paid now , they were on the dole , two reminders of what it had been like for him a few months ago . |
| 6 | His income was less than a half of what it had been before 1914 , and lie was losing capital too . |
| 7 | Since the total grain harvest proved to be a mere 52 per cent of what it had been in 1913 , even the least affected areas had barely enough . |
| 8 | The level of truck loadings for 1922 was under one-third of what it had been in 1913 , although there was a vast improvement towards the end of the year . |
| 9 | It was not qualitatively different on the eve of the French Revolution from what it had been during the reign of Louis XIV . |
| 10 | It was just that at the moment of climax when the escape had to be attempted or abandoned , it became if attempted something quite different from what it had been in the planning . |
| 11 | Within 20 years the Prussians had ruined what remained of Danzig 's grain trade and the population of the city had plummeted to what it had been at the end of the fourteenth century . |
| 12 | I knew it could n't be restored to what it had been in the old days , but there was still room for a club where members had fun rather than did business . |
| 13 | Mr Kerrigan then questioned Mr Mackie about what it had been like working at the Kenway depot at the time he alleged drugs were being taken . |