Example sentences of "it [vb past] be with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The magic was every bit as exciting the second time around as it had been with William . |
| 2 | It had been with him a long time , long before McLuhanism had arrived to make a lot of people cry into their beer at El Vino 's and go haring after every tin-pot producer in the business . |
| 3 | It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy . |
| 4 | It had been with supreme effort that he had controlled his temper . |
| 5 | He could hardly have been welcome , because when he had entered the senior police officer 's room it had been with two aides trying to keep him out by every manoeuvre other than manhandling him . |
| 6 | This was having something in common with your lover , she thought , remembering the way it had been with Mike , who was interested only in banking and golf and what he called making a home for one 's family . |
| 7 | When , a year later , with paintings such as Man with Violin , Braque 's Cubism reached a second climax of complexity and became also highly difficult to read or interpret , one senses that it was not owing to the excitement of working with a new , more abstract technique as it had been with Picasso , but because his interest in elaborately breaking up the picture surface so as to analyse the relationships between the objects and the space surrounding them , slowly and inevitably led him to this kind of painting . |
| 8 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 9 | It was all so much easier , somehow , than it had been with Christopher . |