Example sentences of "[adj] it [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He had seen how entirely wrong it had been for him to have assumed that Beatrice Throgmorton would look twice at him .
2 The new Emperor had seen how instrumental it had been in holding back the tide of Chaos and wanted to add yet another weapon to mankind 's arsenal .
3 Hours passed and the wind worsened to the strongest it had been for days .
4 And how painful it 's been at times to love you .
5 I 'm sure it was , Patrick grinned as he walked down the corridor and climbed the half-dozen steps from the servants ' quarters up to the hall ; he had seen the look on the butler 's face , and knew how uncomfortable it had been for him .
6 You 've no idea how good it 's been for me out here .
7 We talked about the possibility of his death , we talked about the possibility of him being permanently brain damaged , we talked about the happiness they had enjoyed together and how important it had been to both of them to find each other .
8 He stressed first how important it had been to him to get to know Wagner 's philosophy of music and that his own " Dionysiac Philosophy " reflected that debt .
9 Big , burly Ernest von Witzendorff sat at the foot of the conning-tower and laughed when he remembered how tough it had been in 1944 when Allied planes with radar covered the Atlantic .
10 We know how tough it has been for many but we are poised to move forward again , lacking only the spark of confidence with which a Conservative victory would ignite recovery .
11 I do n't think people have any idea how tough it has been for me .
12 The mute swan population stands at the highest it has been for 40 years .
13 Although , as suggested earlier , their standard of living was higher it had been before 1914 their social position and status remained unchanged .
14 At first it had been like being spied on , but now she forgot them most of the time , except when she wanted to do something she should n't .
15 For the next few minutes I had to put up with Sid 's reminiscences about how much worse it had been during the campaign in North Africa .
16 A touch of ground frost is not uncommon , irrespective of how blazing hot it has been during the day .
17 He said , ‘ How wonderful it has been for us both to seek new understanding of each other as we have prayed together and sought healing from each other 's wounds . ’
18 The more the institutions of representative government demand technical efficiency from administrative organizations , the more those organizations have found it necessary to employ specialists and the more difficult it has been for the judgements of the career officials to be resisted .
19 This year , the abundance of berries was the best it had been for years .
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