Example sentences of "it [verb] be [noun prp] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been Fei Yen 's idea to have a midnight picnic and Tsu Ma had been delighted when the two girls had come to them with blankets and a basket , interrupting their talk . |
| 2 | It had been Dr Rolleston 's great sorrow that he had not been able to help children who had come in with the dreaded Infantile Paralysis , not that any other professor in Europe had been able to do better than by careful nursing stop the paralysis spreading . |
| 3 | I asked a mystified Robins , who explained with a laugh that it had been Colonel Fawcett 's idea . |
| 4 | It had been Mme Guérigny 's and Montaine 's intimacy with the creatures of the forest that had given them the idea of hiding their deserter in the cave . |
| 5 | It had been Mrs. Bidwell 's arrival at Howarth 's house in obedience to the call which had given the Director himself the excuse for arriving so early . |
| 6 | It had been Sister Cooney 's idea to take him down to help in the library . |