Example sentences of "it had [been] her [adj] [noun] " 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 | I 'm sure she would n't have taken the matter lightly if it had been her own colleagues who had been beaten up and tortured . |
| 11 | Six months ago it had been her dearest wish that one day he would discuss the great truths of their shared religion with her . |