Example sentences of "it had [adv] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man with unfashionably long hair — it had probably been that way since his own undergraduate days , Loretta guessed — was stabbing the air with his fork . |
| 2 | She noticed that his hair had scissor marks in it , as if it had just been dry cut . |
| 3 | " It had better be new lines , I think , Peter — work that is liable to take some time . |
| 4 | For months it had apparently been common knowledge ; something to be tutted over and discussed in hushed tones that stopped abruptly whenever she entered the common-room . |
| 5 | Mark Whiteside ( 18 ) , said he had only recently started modelling but that it had all been good fun . |