Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] it [vb past] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked Pat if it had been love at first sight . |
| 2 | Helen whispered to Sarah that it had been confirmed that she was pregnant and the baby was due in late November . |
| 3 | THE SALVATION Army was warned that it might be the victim of an elaborate fraud weeks before the charity revealed in February that it had been defrauded of £6.2 million . |
| 4 | A short note from a spy in Paris : Eudo Tailler 's head had been fished from the Seine where it had been thrown in a sack . |
| 5 | Last night a spokesman for Scottish Enterprise denied there was any question of either its or LiS 's abusing power and insisted that they were not actively marketing Rosyth and it had been the market that has sought out the opportunities . |
| 6 | Forestry interests and landowners in Scotland had been lobbying the Scottish Office to draw the teeth of the NCC because it had been too successful in defending the uplands from conifers . |
| 7 | This decision was immensely helpful to Jonathan Cape since it had been and remained their intention to publish the next two volumes of the Diaries and a further volume that related to Crossman 's earlier back-bench activities . |
| 8 | Life in Takrit in Iraq fifty years ago was based on similar principles for the young Saddam Hussein as it had been in Scorniceşti a generation earlier for Nicolae Ceauşescu . |
| 9 | It would seem that the region of Powys in north-east Wales remained as much in the front-line of warfare with the northern Angles in the time of Eadwine as it had been when Aethelfrith defeated the men of Powys at Chester . |
| 10 | ’ Perhaps it was the estrangement of Washington perhaps that he had n't expected Agnes at the Smithsonian but it had been a surprising thrill to see the familiar smile in the crowd . |
| 11 | It is not know whether the Canadian forecast was available to the crew before departure from Keflavik although it had been issued prior to that time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ She was well known in Aspull and it had been said she had a heart of gold . ’ |
| 14 | Its origins were Queen Anne but it had been remodelled several times , most radically at the turn of the century when it had become the holiday home of a London architect . |
| 15 | Clifford Smyth stresses the damage that would have been done to the electoral appeal of the DUP if it had been too closely associated with the Free Presbyterian Church and offers this as the main reason why the Presbytery of the Free Church refused to allow ministers other than Paisley and Beattie to stand as DUP candidates . |
| 16 | Recently a member heard of an 1870 five compartment EX-L & SWR coach incorporated in the garden of Mike Rule of Fyfield , Andover where it had been the home to a family of eight from 1920 to 1965 . |
| 17 | Well , no smugglers on Fair Isle but it had been a pleasant interlude and we headed back to Venturous with yet another " first " notched up in our visitor 's book . |