Example sentences of "[coord] it had [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House , as it was simply called , was a profitable little concern and it had been part of Agnes 's work since she had left school , six years ago , to see to the laundry , and with Maggie 's help , to its cleaning . |
| 2 | Harty had been admitted to St James 's with acute liver failure and hepatitis B infection , and it had been Giles 's job to find a donor . |
| 3 | Women had been on the paper since the beginning — with Maureen McGrath as news editor- and it had been women who had been providing the typesetting , the listings , the ad selling . |
| 4 | And it had been Luke 's fault . |
| 5 | But it had been Elisabeth and Daniel themselves who , in 1939 , elected to spend the whole summer alone on Møn , rather than accompany their parents to South America . |
| 6 | But it had been Mrs McBride who had started as she meant to go on . |
| 7 | McGee had summoned the Dean , but it had been Lord Cumbermound who had led the party down the back stairs . |
| 8 | But it had been coincidence . |
| 9 | It was strange to see Yek surrendering , but it had been Sipotai 's mistake to involve troops in a private feud . |
| 10 | I had no means of knowing what sort of line I had kept on my cross-country stumble , but it had been NNE as near as I could make it . |
| 11 | But it had been Sandra he 'd called darling . |
| 12 | But it had been days since he had managed to obtain a good , large dish of fresh-cooked vegetables . |
| 13 | But it had been years , even then , since Elvis was top of the Hit Parade , and if all he had to offer the world was slicked-back hair and a sulky pout , the Dead Loss was set to slip a lot further down the charts , and Mary was n't going to be there to see it . |