Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [be] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mousy hair had been bleached by the sun to a more nearly-blonde than it had been since her childhood , and her skin was very brown . |
| 2 | If possible , life was harder even for these ragged redskins than it had been for their forefathers after the war with Rope Thrower , when their livelihood had been deliberately burned away from them . |
| 3 | Through the brushed cotton of her sweater she could feel the pressure of his fingers , his touch scorching her as surely as if it had been on her bare skin . |
| 4 | If it had been like our door , the existing door it would have stood rubbing down flatting down and er then . |
| 5 | When we complained , we had quite a battle with the manager of the firm , but we argued that the fridge was not in use all the time , and if it had been in our home the fault may have occurred earlier . |
| 6 | In spite of everything , her mind kept returning to Antoinette — seeing her face as it had been during their last confrontation in Monpazier , twisted with bitterness and hate . |
| 7 | The England that Pound mourns the loss of is , as it had been for him from the first , an integral province of western Europe , sharing a common culture with France and always reaching out , through France , to the shores of the Mediterranean . |
| 8 | SOON THEY BECAME VERY MUCH AS IT HAD BEEN BEFORE THEIR separation , except that Gina was a little more violent . |
| 9 | Suddenly Anne thought of the kitchen as it had been throughout her childhood , a warm , secure and loving haven . |
| 10 | This change also made imperative the development of links with employers , Youth Training providers and the tertiary colleges so that the quality of transition for young people was as effective into the post-16 area as it had been throughout their school career . |
| 11 | Going to the Secret Cove was , as it had been in her mother 's time , the child 's greatest delight . |
| 12 | But the exiled soldier wanted more than a place to stay : he wanted , to a Peter Pan-ish degree , everything as it had been in his childhood home . |
| 13 | When one turns to his large-scale tonal designs , unexplored until now , it becomes apparent that Lully 's influence is as preponderant in Campra 's cantatas as it had been in his stage music . |
| 14 | The Brotherhood was suppressed by Nasser when he came to power in the 1950s , as it had been by his predecessors . |