Example sentences of "it had [been] [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been her overwhelming need for money — a great deal of money — which had drawn her to the London Metal Exchange . |
| 2 | It had been her first time , she did n't love him , they did n't use any contraception and she definitely did n't expect to be pregnant as a result . |
| 3 | It had been her only gain ; she did not mean to let it be whittled away . |
| 4 | The old Gina , the one who had guarded her own virginity as if it had been her sole worth , would have awakened from the experience ashamed and remorseful . |
| 5 | Somehow , she knew it had been her one chance to reproduce , and that it had passed . |
| 6 | It had been her private dream for years to amass a fortune and ease her mother 's life . |
| 7 | Could she not say that it had been her own choice to leave the Longhills , that they were not suited to one another ? |
| 8 | Yet , like so many other things she later regretted , it had been her own decision . |
| 9 | It had been her own fault , in a way : she had been reluctant to talk about it in front of Francis . |
| 10 | Six months ago it had been her dearest wish that one day he would discuss the great truths of their shared religion with her . |
| 11 | The squash racquets , the Pope 's pronouncements , whose fault it had been their first night together , an afternoon really , but not much good in either case , the squash racquets again , the money spent on Grace . |
| 12 | For both these men it had been their first time out of the house for three weeks . |
| 13 | For Dan Knight and the crew of Mary Alice , it had been their 23rd mission . |
| 14 | It had been my first venture into the hotel business and probably my last — I take my hat off to anyone who makes it work . |
| 15 | It had been my thirtieth birthday in November . |
| 16 | It had been my only chance . |
| 17 | It was grown now , and a good bit taller than me , but when I was young and we were the same size it had been my static catapult defending the southerly approaches to the island . |
| 18 | It had been my cherished wish , if our circumstances had allowed , to create a ‘ Balancing Fund ’ so that in future years the Institute would not be wholly dependent on forecasting expenditure on the basis of income it had yet to receive . |
| 19 | It had been his only relationship , a habit of natural loyalty founded in his childhood , further cemented by the dependence of the field officer on his Control , and never questioned in its foundations … perhaps because , in accepting the Colonel as his father-figure , he had been able to protect himself from the manner of his real father 's death . |
| 20 | It had been his only possession when he had fled his home as it burned . |
| 21 | Lord Aldington denied it had been his first thought : ‘ Silence is the right word . ’ |
| 22 | Twenty years earlier , it had been his patriotic rhetoric which had briefly rallied the nation around him and done so much to consolidate his grip on absolute power . |
| 23 | Yet it had been his own vision , his own analysis , his own solution . |
| 24 | I wondered whether it had been his bright idea that sent them there . |
| 25 | At first it had been his physical beauty , then the cast of his mind . |