Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] it had [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like virgins to the sacrificial altar , they followed Molly Malone to the place where it all happened ; where Wrens must learn to live in a men 's world because now the war was nearer to them than it had ever been . |
| 2 | I am speaking now of its Belgrade side , of the old men in the Academy who wished to complete Serb history because it seemed to them that it had not been properly completed back in 1918 . |
| 3 | now more nearly resembled an M and a Q. The evidence was disappearing before their very eyes and , once it was gone , Harry was not sure he could convince even himself that it had ever been there . |
| 4 | Why did passport mean something when it had n't been stolen ? |
| 5 | His first impression was that somebody had started to construct a small harbour , but then he saw a shallow groove cut in the face of the cliff which must at one time have accommodated a pipe , and it occurred to him that it had probably been a sewage outfall . |
| 6 | She wrinkled her nose in irritation , wishing that her father had had the foresight to warn her that it had not been fully completed , instead of waving her on her way with a cheery remark about how the change would do her good . |
| 7 | Bathed in the bright sun of Italy and glittering with social and commercial success , it seemed to her that it had always been menaced by dark shadows , many of which , Constance sometimes thought , had sprung up almost to punish her for leaving this remote area so early in her adult life . |
| 8 | She had finally walked out on him and it had only been the intervention of Philpott that had brought them back together again . |
| 9 | ‘ Of course , he 'd never have made it if it had n't been for the skill of our local doctor ’ |
| 10 | Clara had actually heard one constant church attender , caught out donating a small charitable sum to the Vicar , defend herself to Mrs Maugham by saying that she had n't really meant to give it , and that she never would have given it if it had n't been that her little boy had just given up Sunday school . |
| 11 | ‘ He would never have made it if it had n't been for you . |
| 12 | ‘ The APB would never have made it if it had all been practitioners . |
| 13 | What if it had not been Nicole on the phone at all ? |
| 14 | What if it had originally been on one of the other cakes ? |
| 15 | It was there for them as it had always been . |
| 16 | ‘ I would never have been a dancer or believed I could do anything if it had not been for him , ’ said Crawford . |