Example sentences of "it [vb past] been [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | His position was now exactly what it had been during his exile in Rufus 's reign : he was without an income and reduced to dependence on the hospitality of Hugh of Lyons . |
| 2 | And it had been on his drive back from Bramshill a week later that he had turned on his radio and heard the news of Berowne 's resignation of his ministerial post . |
| 3 | The thought that it had been inside his mouth , touching his tongue and gums and those rather small but perfect teeth , that it had been drenched in some of his most intimate fluids gave me an erotic thrill . |
| 4 | He had never been a party-goer and it had been against his better judgement that they agreed to join Ibn Fayoud 's party . |
| 5 | She knew it had been against his better judgement ; that all his own instincts had told him to wait , to take it more slowly . |
| 6 | The Brotherhood was suppressed by Nasser when he came to power in the 1950s , as it had been by his predecessors . |
| 7 | But the exiled soldier wanted more than a place to stay : he wanted , to a Peter Pan-ish degree , everything as it had been in his childhood home . |
| 8 | As Joe watched her put on her coat and hat he experienced a keen sense of disappointment , for he was realising it had been in his mind to escort her to work . |
| 9 | It had been in his possession for quite a while and Broomhead felt it was about time he sold the thing . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When one turns to his large-scale tonal designs , unexplored until now , it becomes apparent that Lully 's influence is as preponderant in Campra 's cantatas as it had been in his stage music . |
| 12 | It had been in his eyes when he lay on the bed staring rigidly at the ceiling , a terrifying , heart-rending pain that cut her to the bone . |