Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that it was happening it seemed it had been inevitable from the start . |
| 2 | Forgotten , or decided it had been idle talk , a vow impossible to realise . |
| 3 | When her father died it had been necessary for her to do some kind of work and the training in librarianship had seemed the most suitable . |
| 4 | ‘ Because you were so vulnerable , I felt it had been unfair of me to take advantage of you . ’ |
| 5 | She knew it had been hard for her Mother when her Father had shipped her off to the United States to escape the war . |
| 6 | Before they even touched he knew it had been wrong to come , he knew he had reopened a wound that would never heal and could never be soothed by consummation , unless the war should end soon and they should both survive . |
| 7 | He thought he would not care if she had in truth done so , although he knew it to have been unnecessary . |
| 8 | Someone touched his elbow so timidly that he thought it had been accidental , until the gesture was repeated with more insistence . |
| 9 | The fact that three quarters of those prescribed medication thought it to have been very or fairly effective may be thought to vindicate this as a first line approach , but side effects from anticholinergic drugs are common , and important diagnoses ( for example , a neurological condition ) may be delayed . |
| 10 | He brushed the question aside and I realised it had been silly of me to ask it . |
| 11 | 3 An unidentified vandal drew a Hitler moustache on the portrait of Maggie Thatcher in the Commons tea-room. 4 The Roman Catholic Church finally admitted it had been wrong to condemn Galileo for saying that Earth orbited around the Sun , in 1633. 5 Following the Windsor Castle fire , it was suggested the Queen might move into Prince Andrew 's house Sunninghill , nicknamed ‘ Tesco 's ’ by the Daily Star . |
| 12 | Sir , when did it stopped being compulsory for you to have a tetanus jab ? |
| 13 | While S & N has announced itself ‘ perfectly happy ’ with the way things have gone since the switch and said it had been successful , some observers are convinced that operating costs have increased substantially and cite political rather than cost or environmental reasons behind the decision . |
| 14 | He said it had been vital to keep Operation Beehive secret from the Soviets and the Yugoslavs , so many people within V Corps had not known about it . |
| 15 | They said it had been captive but had escaped . ’ |
| 16 | A week before the wedding the sickness stopped and my mother said it had been psychological , she said that ‘ deep down inside ’ — I 'm quoting her-I longed for marriage and once I knew I was really going to get married I stopped worrying . ’ |
| 17 | It said it had been unable to establish with sufficient certainty which of the inconsistent statements made by Mr Clark was not true . |
| 18 | Little over FFr 250,000 sold , and some dealers said it had been difficult to get collectors to concentrate on highly priced items , let along sign cheques , in the crowded conditions of the George V basement . |
| 19 | Stockton vet Jackie Paterson , who clambered into the drain and injected the foal with sedatives , said it had been petrified when she had gone down . |