Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constitutionally it had not been thought through . |
| 2 | Perhaps it had just been the rather stuffy air in that crowded room . |
| 3 | Perhaps it had even been home-cooked . |
| 4 | Perhaps he 'd planned it , perhaps it had n't been a lightning urge but the first of his traps . |
| 5 | Perhaps it had n't been a good idea after all to come on this trip together . |
| 6 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 7 | Perhaps it had all been his fault . |
| 8 | Perhaps it had all been a dream . |
| 9 | Obviously it had n't been planted by Marshall ; the weed was the remains of a previous year 's crop . |
| 10 | I mean , I du n no , obviously it had n't been done , or maybe Angie undid it too much or whatever . |
| 11 | Jade is therefore very tough and would have been almost ideal for tools and weapons if only it had not been so difficult to work and so scarce . |
| 12 | So it had n't been Johnny up there this morning , after all . |
| 13 | So it had n't been a coincidence . |
| 14 | So it had all been for nothing ! |
| 15 | Hitherto it had largely been a matter of intellectual interest and the best-known example was the study of the The Peasant Question ( 1937 — 1938 ) by two of the Party 's foremost members , Truong Chinh and Vo Nguyen Giap . |
| 16 | What is more it had long been accepted that only the pope could perform this . |
| 17 | Back home it had always been warm . |
| 18 | Presumably it had once been attached to her bag . |
| 19 | ‘ I would rather it had n't been him , but he 's done it plenty of times to me , ’ was the answer . |
| 20 | No one was ever able to see quite how it had all been managed . |
| 21 | He never forgot how it had once been , never seemed to regard her in any other way but as the person who had cared for him and loved him without reservation . |
| 22 | How it turned out was that we er , I was attending the , what was called the Secondary Modern School and we 'd moved premises from up to . |
| 23 | A living death , it had seemed to him and Jim , but maybe it had n't been so bad . |
| 24 | But maybe she 'd jumped to conclusions , she thought uneasily as she prepared for bed ; maybe it had n't been anything like that at all . |
| 25 | Or maybe it had n't been so pathetic . |
| 26 | Unfortunately it had just been earmarked for housing . |
| 27 | I had previously caught two individuals of H. tricolor in the Malaise trap but until then it had not been recorded in Britain although it was known from Germany and Japan . |
| 28 | Then it had suddenly been galloping over the sleeping bodies of a large wolf pack and , again , its mad speed had been such that the furious yelping had been left far behind . |
| 29 | Then it had all been defeat and misery . |
| 30 | ‘ If we 're going to talk to Grandson , 39 , then it 'd better be you who does it . |