Example sentences of "it had [been] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women had been on the paper since the beginning — with Maureen McGrath as news editor- and it had been women who had been providing the typesetting , the listings , the ad selling . |
| 2 | If it had been Piphros , it was encouraging . |
| 3 | That implied being carefree , and she felt as though it had been decades since she had felt that way , and it had nothing whatsoever to do with Jonathan . |
| 4 | It had been hours since they 'd run away from Grandson Richard , as Gurder kept on putting it . |
| 5 | Maureen 's attempt to move into her father 's office and her subsequent compromise of commandeering a desk in the room outside it had been gestures of little practical effect . |
| 6 | Although Anne had always read voraciously it had been novels and poetry , or volumes of letters and diaries which were her particular favourites . |
| 7 | Funny how it had been malai policy to murder him and , earlier , the young men in the television crew , and now it was policy to stand them , or their kind , a round at the bar . |
| 8 | What had been missing in it had been children , she decided . |
| 9 | More likely it had been trolls . |
| 10 | No matter that it had been police business , and that someone had to do it , he had personally selected Phyllis Henley yesterday . |
| 11 | But it had been days since he had managed to obtain a good , large dish of fresh-cooked vegetables . |
| 12 | It had been years since he could supply pupils solely trained by him . |
| 13 | But it had been years , even then , since Elvis was top of the Hit Parade , and if all he had to offer the world was slicked-back hair and a sulky pout , the Dead Loss was set to slip a lot further down the charts , and Mary was n't going to be there to see it . |
| 14 | As it had been years since I had been anywhere further away from Fontanellato than Parma , I had no hesitation in saying that I would like to go to Bologna . |
| 15 | He speculated that perhaps it had been years , and he had simply forgotten . |
| 16 | It had been years since she had cried like that , and that she should have done so now in front of Luke surprised her even more . |
| 17 | ‘ Now , it had been years since I had seen Bartholomew Burghgesh and I considered him long dead , yet I am sure that man I glimpsed that cold December morning was Sir Bartholomew himself . |