Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a long time after independence , English was the language of the educated élite , just as it had largely been that of the colonial administration . |
| 2 | A man with unfashionably long hair — it had probably been that way since his own undergraduate days , Loretta guessed — was stabbing the air with his fork . |
| 3 | Her hatred — if it had even been that — had turned out to be as intensely personal as her love and an intrinsic part of it , Maria acknowledged privately . |
| 4 | Alina was holding onto the door , because the six steps that she 'd taken to reach it had almost been enough to exhaust her ; Belov dusted off his hands and came over to her now , and he took her by the shoulders and turned her around and steered her back toward the bed that she 'd just left . |
| 5 | And it had all been such a long time ago ! |
| 6 | In his dream he felt relief because she had n't died , because it had all been some other dream , because she was smiling in the sunshine . |