Example sentences of "it had been [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been a nine days ' wonder , during which no charges had been brought , but Travis had told her to her face that he knew she had taken it . |
| 2 | It had been a few years since he had served Mass last as an altar-boy in Rosstrevor , and even the new authority of his police sergeant 's stripes did little to compensate for his nervousness at being on the altar again . |
| 3 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 4 | It had been a few years since I 'd ridden a bike but it 's like sex , providing you do n't fall off , you soon get back into the swing of it . |
| 5 | It had been a few months before Roy realised he had married what his mother would have called ‘ a lazy bitch ’ . |
| 6 | It had n't been a night they had lived through ; it had been the Dark Ages — all seven centuries of them , with wars and oppressions , visions and turbulences . |
| 7 | On their walk back it had been the dark shadows she 'd found unnerving . |
| 8 | It had been the Nordic states which had drawn back from the full implications of the Oslo and Ouchy Conventions of the 1930s . |