Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [be] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ 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 . |
2 | On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam , and far fuller than it had been that morning . |
3 | The ground fire was much worse than it had been that morning . |
4 | If it had been any priest other than Father Devlin he would have told him to go to hell and mind his own business . |
5 | What if it had been some lunatic who sounded like her , someone who had lured her here for a reason . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | It was shimmering under the surface as it had been all afternoon . |