Example sentences of "it had been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , well , I just felt it had been worth trying but it was n't going to work . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It had been worth every minute of the effort they had put into it . |
| 4 | It had taken them two weeks to break the complex code , but it had been worth it . |
| 5 | But the hope of it had been worth steeling herself to ask Edwin for that loan . |
| 6 | It had been worth it . |
| 7 | She had n't really thought he would agree to stay in the car , but it had been worth a try . |
| 8 | It had been worth the risk . |
| 9 | She 'd had to work like a Trojan to achieve it , but it had been worth every drop of blood , sweat and tears . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Perhaps " acquaintance " would be a fairer description than " friend " , but the difference was clearer in peacetime than it had been during the war . |
| 14 | It was not qualitatively different on the eve of the French Revolution from what it had been during the reign of Louis XIV . |
| 15 | In spite of everything , her mind kept returning to Antoinette — seeing her face as it had been during their last confrontation in Monpazier , twisted with bitterness and hate . |
| 16 | The partly suspended sentence of imprisonment had been omitted from the Bill which had passed through all its stages in the Lords , although it had been under consideration by the ACPS . |
| 17 | Its autonomy was , however , short-lived , and although it was probably no less active than it had been under Henry VII , Wolsey 's domineering conduct thrust it into subservience . |
| 18 | The Jewish community continued to be led by the Chief Rabbi , as it had been under the Byzantine emperors . |
| 19 | The French monarchy under Louis XVI was by contrast in many ways a shadow of what it had been under Louis XIV . |
| 20 | Nigeria thus became an administered rather than a political society , just as it had been under colonialism . |
| 21 | Yet it would seem that Lenin well understood the kind of mediation that would be required between bureaucracy and the working class and that this is shown by his emphasis on the need to prevent the bureaucracy emerging under socialism as the privileged social stratum it had been under capitalism . |
| 22 | In 613 the kingdom was reunited , as it had been under the previous Chlothar in 558 . |
| 23 | Smooth and firm it had been under her own nervous touch , and she watched Miguel 's muscles , catching the sunlight as he dismounted and reached up to help her . |
| 24 | The green staff worked miracles to get the course fit for play after it had been under water from Thursday night 's storms . |
| 25 | Until now it had been outside her experience … |
| 26 | It had been about Hegel , the German idealist dead within recent memory , and Paul tried to assemble his thoughts on the matter as he again walked up Bath Street Lane . |
| 27 | She could not remember her dream , only that it had been about Edmund and that he loved her . |
| 28 | But Spain would never again be as politically and economically isolated as it had been between 1945 and 1950 . |
| 29 | Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject . |
| 30 | The dock was fenced off , but not the way it had been as a real dock , with real cargoes to steal . |