Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] [conj] it had " in BNC.

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1 ‘ She had n't been harmed , but she said Edouard was attacked while she was there and it had been done as a warning to her .
2 It was here that it had all started , she thought .
3 It was exactly as it had been drawn in the family for generations .
4 As long as he was there , nothing was different , it was all as it had been when he came back on Tuesday , even the baby next door was moaning sleepily , and from the open window in the living-room he could hear a dog helping outside .
5 A familiar scene , yet one that had changed subtly since yesterday — just as everything else had been changed by that newspaper item , the whole of her life being undermined making her feel that nothing was quite as it had seemed .
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