Example sentences of "it have been [noun] 's [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well would it have been George 's daughter ? |
| 2 | Yes , it had been Edwin 's turn for fire watching in Farringdon Street , but his wife was having a baby so Ivor Gundry , one of our best scholars , from Bridport in Dorset , had volunteered to take his place . |
| 3 | It had been Dalrymple 's idea to require the clan chiefs to take the oath of allegiance and it became obvious that he had hoped for an opportunity to punish one clan as an example to the others . |
| 4 | This time it had been Byford 's patrol , not the police or the Black and Tans . |
| 5 | It had been Arthur 's brainwave in the night ; they must know Clare 's second name , and address . |
| 6 | It had been Dorothy 's territory , as indeed had all of the house , except for areas of communal use . |
| 7 | Harty had been admitted to St James 's with acute liver failure and hepatitis B infection , and it had been Giles 's job to find a donor . |
| 8 | ‘ It had been Carole 's dream to come and work with us , but sadly that dream was smashed . ’ |
| 9 | Well , it had been Carson 's idea . |
| 10 | Before Henry it had been Henry 's father 's . |
| 11 | It was strange to see Yek surrendering , but it had been Sipotai 's mistake to involve troops in a private feud . |
| 12 | It had been Frick 's order that the girl should not be tortured . |
| 13 | It had been Frankie 's Howerd 's wish to entertain specialist audiences , like the Fire Service , for some years with his own brand of sizzling humour . |
| 14 | And it had been Luke 's fault . |
| 15 | Pregnancy It had been Louise 's pregnancy which caused the mole to appear , her change in hormones stimulating its growth . |
| 16 | Without a doubt it had been Greg 's backing which had propelled him into the big league ; without him , for all his talent , Hugo might have been trapped in small-time design and manufacture for ever . |