Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] it [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He brushed the question aside and I realised it had been silly of me to ask it . |
| 2 | I hear it 's been bad at the Front . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The way I understand it firms are obliged to take on disabled men from the war . ‘ |
| 4 | ‘ Because you were so vulnerable , I felt it had been unfair of me to take advantage of you . ’ |
| 5 | I must admit , I think it had been better if they 'd moved it all over the weekend and then just put it straight again on the Monday , that would be . |
| 6 | I think it 's been successful in trying to break down barriers a bit . |
| 7 | I think it 's been successful in trying to break down barriers a bit , and I think at least some of the representatives erm the head boy and girl and deputy head boy and girl at Priory School and some of the people from Rings School and so on at least have contact now on a fairly regular basis with local councillors , local council officials and so on . |
| 8 | Well I think it 's been misrepresentative , misrepresented , sorry , in a variety of ways . |
| 9 | Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers . |
| 10 | But again I think it has been unfortunate er er that recently there have been a few cases in which it would have been better not to prosecute |
| 11 | I said it 've been better if we 'd all gave him a , a half a day 's gardening |
| 12 | But the company which makes it has been close to bankruptcy . |
| 13 | She knew it had been hard for her Mother when her Father had shipped her off to the United States to escape the war . |
| 14 | They said it had been captive but had escaped . ’ |
| 15 | because I think that the the normally he , he has it done are greater . |
| 16 | For some time it has had career breaks to help women ( and occasionally men ) with family needs and he says it has been successful . |
| 17 | Now that it was happening it seemed it had been inevitable from the start . |
| 18 | Someone touched his elbow so timidly that he thought it had been accidental , until the gesture was repeated with more insistence . |
| 19 | Ask Clint whether he feels it has been tough for his kids having a superstar dad and he looks cagey : ‘ Everyone worries about their kids . |
| 20 | Before they even touched he knew it had been wrong to come , he knew he had reopened a wound that would never heal and could never be soothed by consummation , unless the war should end soon and they should both survive . |
| 21 | He thought he would not care if she had in truth done so , although he knew it to have been unnecessary . |
| 22 | It said it had been unable to establish with sufficient certainty which of the inconsistent statements made by Mr Clark was not true . |
| 23 | He said it had been vital to keep Operation Beehive secret from the Soviets and the Yugoslavs , so many people within V Corps had not known about it . |