Example sentences of "it [verb] be [adv] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When would it have been approximately when he started this would you say ? |
| 2 | It had been just as he was leaving on a Sunday evening . |
| 3 | It had been long since he had asked her mother to share his bed , and for some time now his favourite had been a young Khabiri concubine , a month younger than she was herself . |
| 4 | It had been there but he had not seen it . |
| 5 | And yet she knew it had been there when she closed the book and put it back on the shelf . |
| 6 | It had been ever since he 'd dropped Hitch off . |
| 7 | It 's been ever since she wake up . |