Example sentences of "it [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that many of its customers have used loans in cases where they would previously have use ( more costly ) HP a 1977 survey showed that 59 per cent of the loans it made were for motor vehicle purchase . |
| 2 | This picture of a universe that started off very hot and cooled as it expanded is in agreement with all the observational evidence that we have today . |
| 3 | I do n't think the arrears , when they , when it occurred is on the report |
| 4 | yes it 'd been about well on for the end of the war she got married . |
| 5 | And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step |
| 6 | shades they were made in Finland they were the paper pleated ones , er , most of them , no , no not most of them , a lot of them fitted er close up onto the ceiling where they 're intended for centre lights and were held up onto the ceiling with a little spring , erm , they also did some quite nice pleated paper shades , er at a time when you find that most electrical shops were , would have er the old type of erm what is it , imitation silk shades with fringes round them , er fringe at the top and fringe at the bottom and so on sort of thing , when the , when those was sort of old of age everywhere , it was just the same as it 'd been before the war , er it was , you know , quite right really to see these all in different colours , completely plain , but pleated shades but in just one particular colour each shade . |
| 7 | The closest it came was during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell in the seventeenth century . |
| 8 | The hum of the bowstring when it came was like the sound of a harp being tuned , and when Jehan glanced back again Alexei was getting down from his bay to recover his arrows . |
| 9 | if the way this discussion had worked out had got the strategic site policy on the table today as a discussion item , and if we were able to get clear that such a strategic site policy if it existed was in addition to the |
| 10 | We 've always had drams , but the way it developed was like a natural progression . |
| 11 | Their private parts were firmly jammed in the wringer and all it needed was for somebody to the rescue . |
| 12 | All it needed was for the envelope to be stuck down . |
| 13 | Little damage had been done , all it needed was for the cargo to be reassembled , but , while several tourists were rushing energetically around attempting to do this , the drivers of the carts had taken time off to chat . |
| 14 | Nynex Corp 's Nynex CableComms unit has bought three of the eight UK cable television companies that Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's PacTel Cable UK Ltd put on the market last June ( CI No 1,943 ) : Nynex has taken the Greater Manchester , Bolton and Derby franchises and while it did not disclose terms , says it plans to invest £1,000m over the next five to six years to provide local telecommunications networks in its British franchise areas ; the companies it acquired are in franchise areas where it already operates . |
| 15 | All it took was for one saleslady to tell her she looked lovely and Mrs McMahon was persuaded . |
| 16 | But then it was a creature of its time , and its time and the work it did were about the last election , not the next one . |
| 17 | In fact , George Every , then a lay brother at Kelham , with whom I had started a correspondence , told me later that Eliot , while praising some individual points , had said that the general impression it gave was of material being put through a machine and coming out the other side more or less as it was before . |
| 18 | It identified 500,000 hectares of costal habitat which it said were in need of active conservation measures . |
| 19 | And , well , I just felt it had been worth trying but it was n't going to work . |
| 20 | By the time Mr Carlisle arrived in the right Roman town days after the original date for the hearing he was left wondering if it had been worth the bother . |
| 21 | It had been worth every minute of the effort they had put into it . |
| 22 | It had taken them two weeks to break the complex code , but it had been worth it . |
| 23 | But the hope of it had been worth steeling herself to ask Edwin for that loan . |
| 24 | It had been worth it . |
| 25 | She had n't really thought he would agree to stay in the car , but it had been worth a try . |
| 26 | It had been worth the risk . |
| 27 | She 'd had to work like a Trojan to achieve it , but it had been worth every drop of blood , sweat and tears . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | His position was now exactly what it had been during his exile in Rufus 's reign : he was without an income and reduced to dependence on the hospitality of Hugh of Lyons . |
| 30 | France 's diplomatic successes had made little impact on English opinion , and English military leadership was markedly weaker than it had been during the first phase of the war . |