Example sentences of "it be [noun] [subord] [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's ages since I had a haircut . |
| 2 | It 's years since I had one in my house . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's years since I had porridge — I think . |
| 4 | Cos it 's months before I had the time . |
| 5 | She watched him go , realizing it was weeks since they had sat down for dinner together without an interruption , and over a week since they had made love . |
| 6 | because it was Tuesday so I had to have next choose the following weeks ' . |
| 7 | It was noon before they had completed the morning 's tasks , and as they came out from the buildings to go across to the house , the snow had ceased to fall . |
| 8 | It was Saturday so they had put up the green fee from four and sixpence to seven and six and she could n't bear to waste the money . |
| 9 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 10 | It was years since she had last been to an art class . |
| 11 | It was years since she had ridden a bike too , not since she had been at school and had cycled home each day . |
| 12 | It was years since she had spent time alone with her father . |
| 13 | It was years since he had read it but he thought Jung had said something about the universal need for secret societies . |
| 14 | And he had to confess that it was years since he had had such notions . |
| 15 | It was mid-afternoon before she had Les Hiboux sorted to her approximate satisfaction . |