Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [be] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could spot where it had just been by aeroplanes and helicopters taking off in a hurry . |
| 2 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 3 | Praying was ten times as hard as it had ever been in Africa , so was steering clear of hatred , a problem Isobel had never encountered before . |
| 4 | Then , too , a demand for a public inquiry into drug safety was turned down — the minister was Dr David Owen — as it had earlier been over thalidomide by David Ennals . |
| 5 | Although he had defied her before , it had only been in words but now the thought that he had the choice of putting those words into action and so set a new pattern , and in doing so break one of the threads that tied him to her , caused his whole body to tremble and his voice to quiver as he said , ‘ Either you give me permission freely to go with Mick tomorrow or I go down now and put it to Martin . ’ |