Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [conj] it had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as he was there , nothing was different , it was all as it had been when he came back on Tuesday , even the baby next door was moaning sleepily , and from the open window in the living-room he could hear a dog helping outside . |
| 2 | One may however ask whether those in the action sample who said that the strain was less than it had been a year ago attributed this to the effects of the Home Support Project . |
| 3 | It was exactly as it had been drawn in the family for generations . |
| 4 | The attic was not as it had been . |
| 5 | Now when you say right across , I mean you you 've ta seen the photos of , of er shell pitted ground with the nineteen fourteen eighteen war , well that 's how Bentley was then cos it had been rooted for coal and nineteen twenty six strike everybody got it all out cos there was a lot of top surface coal , course it was just left there was a lot of mole holes , stuff from the furnaces when they tip tipped the slag , it was up and down and there was Buttons Brook , was n't it Buttons Brook across there , called Buttons Brook there was a pool across there called Leg of Lamb but I mean it , it er you can imagine what I 'm trying to say , what the ground was like to go over in pitch black night , to go over there and we went out and course we was issued with er ammunition which was one of the o only times I can remember when we went really out prepared with live ammunition , and er we scouted and scouted till daybreak and we did n't find nothing . |
| 6 | ‘ She had n't been harmed , but she said Edouard was attacked while she was there and it had been done as a warning to her . |