Example sentences of "it [verb] been worth " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Washington , President Bush appeared in the White House press room to tell reporters ‘ Yes , it has been worth it . ’ |
| 2 | In Central Office , Patrick Gower consoled himself , ‘ It has been a strenuous year but it has been worth it and it has been fun . |
| 3 | And , well , I just felt it had been worth trying but it was n't going to work . |
| 4 | By the time Mr Carlisle arrived in the right Roman town days after the original date for the hearing he was left wondering if it had been worth the bother . |
| 5 | It had been worth every minute of the effort they had put into it . |
| 6 | It had taken them two weeks to break the complex code , but it had been worth it . |
| 7 | But the hope of it had been worth steeling herself to ask Edwin for that loan . |
| 8 | It had been worth it . |
| 9 | She had n't really thought he would agree to stay in the car , but it had been worth a try . |
| 10 | It had been worth the risk . |
| 11 | She 'd had to work like a Trojan to achieve it , but it had been worth every drop of blood , sweat and tears . |
| 12 | ‘ WELL we 've waited long enough , but it 's been worth it , ’ said one of the nearly 200 primary school teachers who gathered at St Wilfrid 's Church in Northwich for a mass of thanksgiving for the new national programme for religious education . |
| 13 | Even if it costs us a few hundred quid , it 's been worth it . |
| 14 | Working on the project was an awful lot of hard work , and a lot of soul searching but it 's been worth it . |
| 15 | " But it 's been worth all the pain and trouble . " |
| 16 | He really was brought up in his tracks , and said , when he brought her home , well if that only made one person think , it 's been worth it . |
| 17 | They are very , very , very quick indeed and very , very efficient , and this is why , since the War London has been the centre of the recording industry , simply because it 's been worth the while for Americans in recording companies , for example , to record in London rather than anywhere else because we are so efficient . |