Example sentences of "it be an [noun] [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , facing page 119 , there it was , with Westerby duly posing in front as though it were an animal he had just hunted to its death . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's an idea we had , about the swimming . |
| 3 | It was an operation he had never done before , and it was schrecklich difficult . |
| 4 | It was an idea she had thought of in a vague way yesterday , when she had seen the extent of the gravel ridge that ran beneath the two estates . |
| 5 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 6 | It was an attitude she had encountered before admittedly — from people who assumed that because she had grown up in hotels , she had been able to enjoy all the comforts afforded to the customers . |
| 7 | It was Paul 's obsessive jealousy which had diseased and finally destroyed her feelings for him , even though it was an emotion she had never fully understood — until now . |
| 8 | It was an arrangement we had I , I would n't phone in cos you have to wait three weeks for your wages if I phone in . |
| 9 | It was an argument they had had before , and one which she invariably won . |