Example sentences of "[adv] it had be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he remembered ; appropriately enough it had been at the party when Slater had first introduced Graham and Sara to each other . |
| 2 | And all the time Nisodemus was reminding people how much better it had been in the Store . |
| 3 | Nevertheless it had been at Bray 's Buildings , stench or no stench , squeals of slaughtered beasts or no squeals , that one of the most fascinating of Benjamin 's children had entered the world . |
| 4 | He had waited for her in the forests that fringed Tara , his mind filled with light and hope , his body more fiercely aware than ever it had been in his entire life . |
| 5 | Until now it had been outside her experience … |
| 6 | He thought back to how it had been for him last winter . |
| 7 | It was how it had been for the past two weeks and the young woman tried to ignore her protesting muscles and her aching back as she stared into the hearth and watched the tiny flames flickering in and out of the carefully banked-up grate . |
| 8 | He paused and gave her an intense look that revealed a little of how it had been for him . |
| 9 | He continued on across the road and down by the side of the church , heading south towards Pimlico , trying to imagine how it had been on that September day all those years ago . |
| 10 | Since Miss Broome 's parents were both dead , it could never be known how it had been in life . |
| 11 | Earlier it had been on view at 66 Portland Place , and it will shortly complete its run in Folkestone . |
| 12 | Maybe it had been like worship then , worship that begins in love and dovetails neatly into hate . |
| 13 | There was also what was to become a recurrent feature of Gilkes 's reports — as indeed it had been for a half a century already — regret at the parents ' lack of faith or courage , which resulted in boys leaving early and not going on to University . |
| 14 | Carrie knew how hard it had been for her father , who had spent almost thirty-seven years as a horsekeeper for Galloway , to look for other employment . |
| 15 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 16 | Almost certainly it had been on camera-reconnaissance , photographing the British reserves being rushed up . |