Example sentences of "it had [adv] [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whoever had burnt it had evidently been in a hurry , unless , of course , he had been concerned only to destroy certain pages . |
| 2 | You could spot where it had just been by aeroplanes and helicopters taking off in a hurry . |
| 3 | ‘ There was a transitional moment of delicious uneasiness and then — instantaneously — the long inhibition was over , the dry desert lay behind , I was off once more into the land of longing , my heart at once broken and exalted as it had never been since the old days at Bookham . ’ |
| 4 | It had never been on the agenda . |
| 5 | I only wish the man who did it had still been with her . ’ |
| 6 | What if it had originally been on one of the other cakes ? |
| 7 | And he was right , it had always been between them . |
| 8 | Pop had returned to what it had always been about : the personal as the realm in which the meaning of your life is resolved . |
| 9 | It had always been like that . |
| 10 | I 'll put a bit I thought it had always been like that . |
| 11 | Examination of the metal showed that it had always been in a clean condition with no evidence of corrosion , suggesting that it had never been buried . |
| 12 | For a moment , for the first time in his life , he began to realize why his grandfather had never lost his love of Mother Russia , why it had always been in his blood . |
| 13 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 14 | Because it had always been in the back of her mind , from the moment she got up in the morning until she went to bed at night . |
| 15 | During the last few days before the event , as spectators arrived from , Ayrshire was busier than it had ever been in its history . |
| 16 | Praying was ten times as hard as it had ever been in Africa , so was steering clear of hatred , a problem Isobel had never encountered before . |
| 17 | The terror , rather than tepidity , of the priesthood , it had undoubtedly been in many an Italian city in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries ; and even more , perhaps , in the bloody riots in Cologne in 1074 which nearly subdued the pride of the prince archbishop of the city — or the riots in Laon in 1112 which erupted in the murder of the unpopular Bishop Waldric , and gravely shocked both the chivalrous King Louis of France , and his neighbour the English king , Henry I , whose chancellor Waldric had been . |
| 18 | Then , too , a demand for a public inquiry into drug safety was turned down — the minister was Dr David Owen — as it had earlier been over thalidomide by David Ennals . |
| 19 | It had earlier been in the hands of the Beard family for around a century . |
| 20 | Doctor Braby , hard-worked GP and police surgeon to the district , had done more than confirm the fact of death on this occasion , he had called immediate attention to certain peculiarities about the body , and boldly essayed a guess at the length of time it had actually been in the water . |
| 21 | After a weekend of brooding silence and no service , Nigel began to think it had all been worth it . |
| 22 | Oh yes , it had all been worth it . |
| 23 | It had all been for nothing ; the fear , the guilt , the deaths … . |
| 24 | All of her sweet , loving nature that she 'd turned in on herself , waiting for this one moment in her life , this moment of truth , and it had all been for nothing . |
| 25 | So it had all been for nothing ! |
| 26 | And she had n't got whatever it was he wanted , so it had all been in vain . |
| 27 | The course would have been incomplete if it had only been about these technical matters , fascinating as they are . |
| 28 | She had consulted an astrologer once before , even if it had only been for a lark , so why not consult another one now ? |
| 29 | Although he had defied her before , it had only been in words but now the thought that he had the choice of putting those words into action and so set a new pattern , and in doing so break one of the threads that tied him to her , caused his whole body to tremble and his voice to quiver as he said , ‘ Either you give me permission freely to go with Mick tomorrow or I go down now and put it to Martin . ’ |
| 30 | To Rachel that all now seemed as if it had been in another time , another world and it had only been in the last few days with the reappearance of David Markham that the memories had been revived . |