Example sentences of "but it [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken them two weeks to break the complex code , but it had been worth it . |
| 2 | She had n't really thought he would agree to stay in the car , but it had been worth a try . |
| 3 | She 'd had to work like a Trojan to achieve it , but it had been worth every drop of blood , sweat and tears . |
| 4 | He had achieved his aim of recreating the days of his ancestors , at least in part , but it had been at a great cost . |
| 5 | For a while they had all pretended , but it had been like walking on broken glass . |
| 6 | Clarke had said the same thing and she had tried desperately to comply but it had been like trying to lay hold of darting butterflies . |
| 7 | The top two sheets are almost a summary , for all the staff that I never actually got sent out , but it has been to the staff consultative committee , who who gave it a nod . |
| 8 | In Central Office , Patrick Gower consoled himself , ‘ It has been a strenuous year but it has been worth it and it has been fun . |
| 9 | For France , Bull created the Centre of ImageWorks Engineering in March , but it has been in full operation only since mid-June , says its director , Thierry Labarre . |
| 10 | It is an old ship-building town , it once produced a massive proportion of British vessels , but it has been in decline for decades . |
| 11 | But it has been in existence for almost as long as there has been detective fiction . |
| 12 | ‘ WELL we 've waited long enough , but it 's been worth it , ’ said one of the nearly 200 primary school teachers who gathered at St Wilfrid 's Church in Northwich for a mass of thanksgiving for the new national programme for religious education . |
| 13 | Working on the project was an awful lot of hard work , and a lot of soul searching but it 's been worth it . |
| 14 | " But it 's been worth all the pain and trouble . " |
| 15 | But it 's been for about two month now , but it 's |
| 16 | Er which is the case unfortunately in er some instances with animals , but it 's been as you know perhaps at the R S P C A shelter just down the road there at er , but it 's gone now to a happy home in Derbyshire . |
| 17 | Yeah but it 's been in what ? |