Example sentences of "[pron] it had be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was there to show for the union 's militancy when no-one could recall a single dispute in which it had been successful ? |
| 2 | Could they only stand it because it was for a short unreal interval , whereas for him it was the real bit of his life , this little pocket of otherness , of ‘ unreality ’ , but for him it had been central , the power house , the full granary , the fulcrum . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , but I was damned if I was going to tell him it had been OK 'd . |
| 4 | Their closeness was less due to their nearness in age — though with only eighteen months between them it had been easy for them to grow up with similar interests and shared confidences — than to the fact that neither of their parents had ever made much of them . |
| 5 | Me ! she wanted to exclaim , because from where she viewed it it had been Ven , with his natural charm , who had been the charming companion . |
| 6 | Indeed the endemic disorder of medieval society , which was little different in the late Middle Ages from what it had been earlier , may have caused as much economic disruption in a locality such as the East Anglia of the Pastons . |