Example sentences of "[adj] it [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had seen how entirely wrong it had been for him to have assumed that Beatrice Throgmorton would look twice at him . |
| 2 | The new Emperor had seen how instrumental it had been in holding back the tide of Chaos and wanted to add yet another weapon to mankind 's arsenal . |
| 3 | Hours passed and the wind worsened to the strongest it had been for days . |
| 4 | I 'm sure it was , Patrick grinned as he walked down the corridor and climbed the half-dozen steps from the servants ' quarters up to the hall ; he had seen the look on the butler 's face , and knew how uncomfortable it had been for him . |
| 5 | All it took was for one saleslady to tell her she looked lovely and Mrs McMahon was persuaded . |
| 6 | Their private parts were firmly jammed in the wringer and all it needed was for somebody to the rescue . |
| 7 | All it needed was for the envelope to be stuck down . |
| 8 | Little damage had been done , all it needed was for the cargo to be reassembled , but , while several tourists were rushing energetically around attempting to do this , the drivers of the carts had taken time off to chat . |
| 9 | As a result , by the time war was declared in 1939 MI6 had failed to establish any worthwhile network of agents in Europe and those it had were of very dubious quality , some even dishonest and fraudulent . |
| 10 | We talked about the possibility of his death , we talked about the possibility of him being permanently brain damaged , we talked about the happiness they had enjoyed together and how important it had been to both of them to find each other . |
| 11 | He stressed first how important it had been to him to get to know Wagner 's philosophy of music and that his own " Dionysiac Philosophy " reflected that debt . |
| 12 | Big , burly Ernest von Witzendorff sat at the foot of the conning-tower and laughed when he remembered how tough it had been in 1944 when Allied planes with radar covered the Atlantic . |
| 13 | Although , as suggested earlier , their standard of living was higher it had been before 1914 their social position and status remained unchanged . |
| 14 | At first it had been like being spied on , but now she forgot them most of the time , except when she wanted to do something she should n't . |
| 15 | For the next few minutes I had to put up with Sid 's reminiscences about how much worse it had been during the campaign in North Africa . |
| 16 | The closest it came was during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell in the seventeenth century . |
| 17 | This year , the abundance of berries was the best it had been for years . |