Example sentences of "and it [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because if I 'd have come home and it 'd been a mess I would have had a face the longest of all ! |
| 2 | There were individual factory loyalties and there were divisional loyalties and it had been a pretty cosy relationship between the organisation and the Ministry of Defence . |
| 3 | Eleanor was nearly twice the age he felt he deserved , and it had been his ambition for a long time to have a girl just at the point when it became legal . |
| 4 | He had put a Greek monogram of the first letters of the name of Christ ( CHR ) on his standards , and it had been a talisman of victory . |
| 5 | MONDAY morning , and it had been arranged that I would meet Miklós for lunch and then have the chance to talk with some writers from Hungarian PEN . |
| 6 | Harty had been admitted to St James 's with acute liver failure and hepatitis B infection , and it had been Giles 's job to find a donor . |
| 7 | It 's over 220 yards , of course , and it had been playing long all week . |
| 8 | The House , as it was simply called , was a profitable little concern and it had been part of Agnes 's work since she had left school , six years ago , to see to the laundry , and with Maggie 's help , to its cleaning . |
| 9 | There was a lot of straw in the mattress and it had been filled recently so that it was pleasantly responsive . |
| 10 | And it had been there , about twenty minutes later , that Thiercelin had received his wound ; a shell splinter in the cheek , which looked worse than it was , bleeding profusely into his collar and tunic , so that he had been ordered back to the chateau to have it dressed . |
| 11 | No one had wanted to believe that Paula 's beauty went right through her more than Sally did for she was a shining golden idol as well as a sister and it had been a shock to Sally when she had at last been forced to concede , in private at least , that the other girls might have been right in the accusations they made . |
| 12 | Mark had been educated in England and later decided to live there , and it had been because of him that Harriet had first decided to come to London , though nowadays she saw little of him . |
| 13 | Before moving into it the family had lived with Sally 's grandparents and it had been very cramped . |
| 14 | And it was then , when Jakali 's husband 's ploughing bull died despite the new stable , that Kalchu had felt obliged to lend him his , and it had been overworked and died . |
| 15 | He had never been a party-goer and it had been against his better judgement that they agreed to join Ibn Fayoud 's party . |
| 16 | There was more wrong with Sheridan than ill-temper , and it had been obvious to his father for a long time . |
| 17 | It was another Glory and it had been abandoned , half in and half out of a ditch . |
| 18 | That was how she 'd done it — she 'd touched them with her warm love and it had been too much for the Worm 's heart of hatred . |
| 19 | And it had been , of course . |
| 20 | But I watched her transform the house from being their place — and it had been only a place , child-soiled , functional — into her home . |
| 21 | The King was , however , also King of his Dominions and it had been provided by the Statute of Westminster 1931 , s.4 , that Parliament should not legislate for the Dominions ( defined as Australia , Canada , the Irish Free State , Newfoundland , New Zealand and the Union of South Africa ) except at the request of and with the consent of the Dominion concerned . |
| 22 | The thing between himself and Isobel had been so long ago he had difficulty remembering it , and it had been a mistake from the first . |
| 23 | She had quickly joined the emigration society of which her cousins were already members , and it had been agreed that she should count as part of their family . |
| 24 | Kirov had found Pevrolensky with some free time , had put his case openly , and it had been treated sympathetically , without any detailed investigation . |
| 25 | And it had been written , apparently , by some boy just out of high school , for heaven 's sakes . |
| 26 | And it had been the experience of that war that convinced Richard Cobden of ‘ the utter uselessness of raising one 's voice in opposition to war when it has once begun . ’ |
| 27 | At school we were weighed regularly — at the beginning , middle and end of each term — and it had been customary for me to record my weight in my diary on all these occasions . |
| 28 | But we were moving in different directions and it had been clear for some while that we stayed together out of habit . |
| 29 | And it had been on his drive back from Bramshill a week later that he had turned on his radio and heard the news of Berowne 's resignation of his ministerial post . |
| 30 | The first property company had gone into liquidation and it had been sold to a second and then a third . |