Example sentences of "it [vb past] be [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think the arrears , when they , when it occurred is on the report |
| 2 | shades they were made in Finland they were the paper pleated ones , er , most of them , no , no not most of them , a lot of them fitted er close up onto the ceiling where they 're intended for centre lights and were held up onto the ceiling with a little spring , erm , they also did some quite nice pleated paper shades , er at a time when you find that most electrical shops were , would have er the old type of erm what is it , imitation silk shades with fringes round them , er fringe at the top and fringe at the bottom and so on sort of thing , when the , when those was sort of old of age everywhere , it was just the same as it 'd been before the war , er it was , you know , quite right really to see these all in different colours , completely plain , but pleated shades but in just one particular colour each shade . |
| 3 | The closest it came was during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell in the seventeenth century . |
| 4 | The hum of the bowstring when it came was like the sound of a harp being tuned , and when Jehan glanced back again Alexei was getting down from his bay to recover his arrows . |
| 5 | We 've always had drams , but the way it developed was like a natural progression . |
| 6 | All it needed was for the envelope to be stuck down . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But then it was a creature of its time , and its time and the work it did were about the last election , not the next one . |
| 9 | It had been worth every minute of the effort they had put into it . |
| 10 | She 'd had to work like a Trojan to achieve it , but it had been worth every drop of blood , sweat and tears . |
| 11 | She had n't really thought he would agree to stay in the car , but it had been worth a try . |
| 12 | By the time Mr Carlisle arrived in the right Roman town days after the original date for the hearing he was left wondering if it had been worth the bother . |
| 13 | It had been worth the risk . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | France 's diplomatic successes had made little impact on English opinion , and English military leadership was markedly weaker than it had been during the first phase of the war . |
| 16 | Perhaps " acquaintance " would be a fairer description than " friend " , but the difference was clearer in peacetime than it had been during the war . |
| 17 | It was not qualitatively different on the eve of the French Revolution from what it had been during the reign of Louis XIV . |
| 18 | The Jewish community continued to be led by the Chief Rabbi , as it had been under the Byzantine emperors . |
| 19 | In 613 the kingdom was reunited , as it had been under the previous Chlothar in 558 . |
| 20 | The dock was fenced off , but not the way it had been as a real dock , with real cargoes to steal . |
| 21 | On the one recent occasion when the Mendoza family had got near winning the Argentine Open , it had been on a grey mare that Alejandro had missed the clinching penalty . |
| 22 | For it had been on a cold Sunday evening in the spring , after he had been looking over the house with the idea of buying it , that he had happened out of curiosity to ‘ pop in ’ , as fashionable Anglo-Catholics said , to Solemn Evensong and Benediction at St Basil 's at the end of the road . |
| 23 | Improvement ensued under Tub LM1 ( again taken from a 5ml dropper bottle ) although the patient commented that the wheeziness was n't as clear as it had been on the first Phosphorus . |
| 24 | Furthermore , the injury rate on the softer track dropped to less than half what it had been on the previous track . |
| 25 | When the Bishops moved into the house 10 years ago , it had been on the market for 18 months and had become very run down . |
| 26 | It it had been on the agenda before . |
| 27 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
| 28 | It was not as thick as it had been on the night Mary Lou Evans had died , but it was still sufficient to reduce visibility to about 30 - 40 yards . |
| 29 | ‘ When he came back he announced it was the King who had died in his sleep and it had been on the wireless . ’ |
| 30 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |