Example sentences of "it [vb past] be [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick too was watching the shops go by , remembering the last time he had walked down them , it had been early in 1916 , and he had gone out with Mickey — God Rest Him — to buy his mother an Easter gift . |
| 2 | After 1986 parliamentary concern shifted towards the security service or MI5 , particularly because of allegations that it had been involved in attempts to smear elected politicians during the 1970s . |
| 3 | It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last . |
| 4 | We reckoned that the British Army was the most professional in the world and that it had been influential in training the South African and Israeli armies who we thought took second and third place . |
| 5 | The German explanation for the invasion of Belgium and Holland on 10 May 1940 — that it had been necessary in order to forestall a breach of neutrality by the enemy — carried less conviction than it had done in the Scandinavian operation . |
| 6 | It had been latent in Lewis ever since his encounter with God in Magdalen in the summer of 1929 . |
| 7 | This system was formalised in the year 802 , although it had been operational in early forms during the preceding years of his reign . |
| 8 | It had been wonderful in fact . |