Example sentences of "it [vb past] been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He continued on across the road and down by the side of the church , heading south towards Pimlico , trying to imagine how it had been on that September day all those years ago . |
| 2 | The embalmed corpse of Georgi Dimitrov , Bulgaria 's Communist leader from 1946 until his death in 1949 , was removed on July 18 from the mausoleum in central Sofia where it had been on public display , and was cremated in a private ceremony . |
| 3 | The luncheon table was laid as it had been for 50 Christmases , with a pyramid of polished John Standish apples from Somerset in the middle , flanked by Christmas roses and trails of ivy . |
| 4 | It had been of considerable importance to the development of the District 's confidence and reputation in East Anglia in the early twenties . |
| 5 | This was largely but not exclusively an obsession of Congregationalists , much as it had been of mediaeval bishops . |
| 6 | He could hardly have been welcome , because when he had entered the senior police officer 's room it had been with two aides trying to keep him out by every manoeuvre other than manhandling him . |
| 7 | It had been with supreme effort that he had controlled his temper . |
| 8 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 9 | It had been at one time , going back over a hundred and fifty years , it had been what they called a combination poorhouse . |
| 10 | This did not mean a dramatic drop in popularity : indeed , his approval rating was higher in 1966 and early 1967 than it had been at any point since the Algerian crisis . |
| 11 | Ghandi , I think , in the early eighties epitomised , to a large degree , and attitude of concern about erm violence , and I think that in some large measure the sort of recognition that it gained , particularly in the awards and so on , had a lot to do with its subject matter as against it 's actual execution , and I think that if it had been at another time , or if the subject matter had n't been erm quite as powerful as that old genius 's life was , I do n't think it would have won the awards . |
| 12 | It was near the end of August , and for the last few days it had been like high summer . |
| 13 | But the final sale price was still pounds more than it had been in normal trading the month before . |
| 14 | A wide range of so-called sexual sicknesses was diagnosed , Instead of masturbation being classified as wrong or harmful , as it had been in Victorian times , it became not only permissible but obligatory by the new standards . |
| 15 | There is evidence to suggest that the walls which carried these pictures were not normally plastered but panelled , though plaster is used in the tombs of Etruria and Paestum , as it had been in Bronze-age palaces and was to be in Hellenistic tombs in Greece ( below , p. 176 ) . |
| 16 | I count it a privilege to have been asked to become its chairman — though naturally I would wish it had been in happier circumstances . |
| 17 | To Rachel that all now seemed as if it had been in another time , another world and it had only been in the last few days with the reappearance of David Markham that the memories had been revived . |
| 18 | There had always been that choice , and it was as difficult to take , and as easy to reject , in the twentieth century as it had been in any other . |
| 19 | It had been from this influx that the rag business had started . |