Example sentences of "it had [been] a [adj] summer " in BNC.
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1 | It had been a dry summer but the pool was full and the young people , many of them travel-stained after a long trek from Portofino , were lying in steaming baths , their toes poised to activate the gilded taps . |
2 | It had been a hot summer , and dust rose from the rough flags as they settled . |
3 | Cold winter maybe , but it had been a long summer that ended that afternoon , from Powell , through the May Events and , at the end of August , the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia , which had again pulled the demonstrators on to the streets , but on this occasion down to Notting Hill and Olympia , the homes of the Czech and Soviet embassies , and an ill-timed eastern bloc trade exhibition . |
4 | It had been a terrible summer , she reflected , one of those damp , chilly English summers which could almost be mistaken for one of their recent damp , mild winters . |
5 | It had been a fine summer . |
6 | The weather became very bitter up here and because it had been a bad summer I had kept two of my cattle in the byre by the house all the time . |
7 | It had been a wet summer , but this one , in early July , was quite dry and firm . |