Example sentences of "it [vb past] [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then erm , we drove , er then we walked through this park , which was lovely , it had squirrels running all round the place and pigeons and everything , it was gorgeous , and , and because it , it 'd been such a gorgeous day , it 's just that my fucking nose is cold . |
| 2 | If only it had been that nice John Smith , with his twinkling accountant 's eyes and trust-me smile . |
| 3 | On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam , and far fuller than it had been that morning . |
| 4 | There was the usual bawdy banter , of course , and it had been that way ever since she first put on her white apron and began serving behind the counter . |
| 5 | Medical men had perforce to be botanists , and often gardeners as well , and in time medical knowledge came to be the perquisite of the European religious orders , as it had been that of the priests in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs . |
| 6 | " You 'd have asked at the door if it had been that . |
| 7 | A shiver ran through Theda 's body — the frame that was near a shadow of itself , just as it had been that long-gone day in March . |
| 8 | The ground fire was much worse than it had been that morning . |
| 9 | It had been that first visit to the police station , when the Prince had dangled money in front of the local chief . |
| 10 | He saw and he cared , but it had been many months since he had counted with her . |
| 11 | It was almost a physical pain and for a moment he felt shocked because it had been many years since the agony of losing Gerda . |
| 12 | Always , in the past , it had been such a jolly day . |
| 13 | It had been such an unsettled year altogether that he had had no opportunity for connected work of anything other than a temporary kind ; at the beginning of November , faced with the prospect of the British Council tours to France and Italy , he did not believe that he would be able to begin serious composition until the new year . |
| 14 | The hospital and all that went with it had been such an oasis in the alarming wilderness of doing everything for , and chiefly by , myself ; now it came to the point of leaving it , I was scared . |
| 15 | That was why it had been such a shock when the neighbours came round to tell Lily the baby was screaming and there was nobody answering the door or any lights on in the house . |
| 16 | It had been such a confusing time for her — the quarrel with Stephen and her mother 's death following so closely . |
| 17 | It had been such a tight squeeze to get the Princess into the boat house at all , that someone had come up with the bright idea of removing the edge boards from the quay platforms on either side . |
| 18 | It had been such a lovely evening . |
| 19 | It had been such a stupid little exchange , the words in themselves meaning nothing , yet here she was , trembling like a colt . |
| 20 | It had been such a little hurt . |
| 21 | It had been such a traumatic , agonising time , even now she could n't talk about it without feeling pain . |
| 22 | It had been such a good idea and all that had resulted from it was a double punishment for her and a complete failure to make anyone believe to Alicia or Daryl had played the trick . |
| 23 | It had been all those things , it had started as all those things , but now it was work and love . |
| 24 | It had been all whispers and lies till they got to the shop . |
| 25 | ‘ Leith , ’ he said , but his look was no warmer , no less arrogant than it had been all morning , ‘ you do n't … ’ he went on , and seemed slightly stuck for words . |
| 26 | It was shimmering under the surface as it had been all afternoon . |
| 27 | It had been another perfect morning . |
| 28 | If it had been another few inches either side it would have been my neck or my heart and I would be dead . |
| 29 | It had been more of a shock than she could have anticipated . |
| 30 | It had been some time since I had visited Ingleborough , so last summer I went back with a couple of friends to rediscover some of its hidden treasures . |