Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adj] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | In reflecting on the day , after Joy and Alan had gone home , I was surprised that it had seemed so unfrightening . |
| 2 | It was his nickname for her ; he had started calling her that when she was small and it had stuck even though she was now a respectable five-feet-seven . |
| 3 | They were adamant that it had been clear all along , they 'd suspected something from the start . |
| 4 | Can I just ask , would it be different if it had been a military aircraft ? |
| 5 | However the wealth may have been produced it is evident that it had created a rich landowning class . |
| 6 | Indeed , it was better than it had been for months . |
| 7 | It was better if it had never happened . |
| 8 | The copper anklet was probably the only thing of value she had possessed , and it was curious that it had not been stolen , for all metal was valuable in the Black Land . |
| 9 | It was wider than it had looked and Fenella thought she had been right to think it led away from the road , deeper into the hillside . |
| 10 | After about three weeks it was noticeable that it had a problem with its mouth . |
| 11 | It was disappointing that it had no significant effect on the tachycardia , but this may be helped by more sparing use of hyoscine butylbromide . |
| 12 | The authorities decided it was dangerous so it had to be knocked down . |
| 13 | Even for somebody who spoke French it was a mouthful , and it was tedious because it had to be repeated each time one spoke to a Corporal or Sergeant . |
| 14 | And as I said , it , it was er , it , it , it , it was , it was denigrated but it had its own strengths , and the Margaret case er , is , is one of them . |
| 15 | It was interesting that it had once belonged to the Ballaters . |
| 16 | 15–4 The body of Malcolm MacKinnon was found near Schouler on Daill farm and it was remarkable that it had not been found sooner as it was lying in the vicinity of a well from which water was being drawn daily . |
| 17 | A streamlined eighty-footer , it was obvious that it had been , until very , very recently , a dazzling white . |
| 18 | Rostov was not sure what purpose his stateroom had served previously but it was obvious that it had been occupied by at least four persons , all of whom had been possessed of diverse tastes with regard to the minimal decoration which was permissible aboard a ship designed for deep space exploration . |
| 19 | It was rectangular and it had a lid , like a shoe box , but it was longer . |
| 20 | When it issued its first interim report in the autumn of 1955 , it was clear that it had narrowed its focus to the two core projects raised before Messina , the Netherlands proposal for a common market and Monnet 's ideas for a nuclear energy community . |
| 21 | In the first place it was clear that it had been a mistake to let Alexei know that his transfer away from the Praetorian Guard had been requested — because if the boy was looking for an excuse for his antagonism , then the one with which he had just been presented was perfect . |
| 22 | On reflection he was sure that it had been his own personal brush with the Sabbah organisation two years earlier that had caused him to overreact . |
| 23 | By now he was convinced that it had merely acquiesced in the frame-up after his arrest . |
| 24 | The college 's principal , Professor Norman Gower , said he was sad that it had to sell but added : ‘ The cost of preserving Thomas Holloway 's main benefaction left us with no alternative . |
| 25 | But if Mansell was unhappy with life in general before the race had started , he was furious after it had ended . |
| 26 | But this made it so obvious who had sent this copy that he was astonished that it had been sent at all . |