Example sentences of "it [pron] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looked as it someone had been practising three-point turns on its chest . ’ |
| 2 | We used the same old path , and I was amazed to realise that without knowing it I had been hurrying my children along and constantly looking over my shoulder . |
| 3 | Everyone was amazed when my father left , but when I came to consider it I had been relieved . |
| 4 | She banged against the crate heavily and the one on top of it which had been badly placed fell onto the ground so that some of the bananas spilled out around her feet . |
| 5 | Without realizing it she had been rubbing the area of skin which had touched the rat 's tail . |
| 6 | But it could also mean that erm they were getti that it they had been successful in getting taxation from what they 'd done since the beginning of cos they felt they could go even further . |
| 7 | It it had been on the agenda before . |
| 8 | And erm slabs of it it had been cut like er it looked you know if you sort of cut lard or something like that . |
| 9 | Me ! she wanted to exclaim , because from where she viewed it it had been Ven , with his natural charm , who had been the charming companion . |
| 10 | Before it he had been a loud , jovial man , given to spontaneous bursts of affection . |
| 11 | Miguel took the card and wrote on it what had been done for Samantha . |