Example sentences of "it had be [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an area of bruising below the right eye but , although it was recent , Wycliffe felt sure that it had been inflicted some time before death — probably the day before . |
| 2 | It had been expecting some trouble on May 23th , the anniversary of China 's annexation of Tibet in 1951 . |
| 3 | It had been painted that way to make it stand out — the opposite of camouflage . |
| 4 | A British team managed to reach one that , although it had been hooked several hours before , was still just living when its captor got it ashore . |
| 5 | It had been converted some years before Miss Dalgliesh had bought it by the addition of a flint-faced , two-storey building with a large sitting room , smaller study and a kitchen on the ground floor and three bedrooms , two of them with their own bathrooms , on the floor above . |
| 6 | By its appearance it had been cooked several days ago . |
| 7 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |
| 8 | It had been raining all night and in the stillness of morning the clouds and mist had not yet cleared . |
| 9 | The weather was fine on the day , a lucky day as it had been raining all week . |
| 10 | It had been raining that night so the roads were slippy and our group was half way round the course when a friend , Catriona , suffered a puncture in her rear wheel . |
| 11 | He had become involved in the administration of St Anne 's House in Soho , for example ; it had been opened this year as a " centre of Christian discourse " , and in the autumn he and Philip Mairet conducted a discussion group , " Toward the Definition of Culture " which met once a week until the middle of December . |
| 12 | At this time , too , he carefully examined and brilliantly settled the old quarrel concerning the metropolitan church of Britanny between Tours and Dol , which although it had been judged many times by his predecessors would never have been brought to a final settlement but for him . |
| 13 | Clearly it had been taken several years earlier , but it showed , even then , the supercilious cast of a face which had looked into the camera with head held well back , and lips that seemed to smile with a curious arrogance above the Vandyke beard . |
| 14 | Its origins were Queen Anne but it had been remodelled several times , most radically at the turn of the century when it had become the holiday home of a London architect . |
| 15 | Next she considered the potatoes : in the past she had always cooked them in their skins , but recently it had been suggested that potato skins , if not carcinogenic , were yet harmful to the system , perforating the bowel or preventing it from absorbing the vital vitamins . |