Example sentences of "[coord] it had [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the usual bawdy banter , of course , and it had been that way ever since she first put on her white apron and began serving behind the counter . |
| 2 | Only this time the fire that burned in the grate close by showed her the face of her dream-lover , and it had been Gentle 's face . |
| 3 | Because she 'd seen the bottle , and it had been good French burgundy … |
| 4 | Sally-Anne loved a dare , and Terry Rourke 's appeal had been frank and animal — he had excited her , and it had been simple for her to lie to her mother , to set out to go to a girlfriend 's home on the following afternoon and meet Terry instead . |
| 5 | It was the first silk garment she had owned , and it had been expensive , but Faye 's silk clothes always looked and felt so wonderful … |
| 6 | Construction work on the reactor , intended to generate electricity both for domestic use and for sale to Belgium and the Netherlands , had commenced in 1972 , and it had been due to start operating in 1979 . |
| 7 | Construction work on the reactor , which had been intended to generate electricity both for domestic use and for sale to Belgium and the Netherlands , had commenced in 1972 , and it had been due to start operating in 1979 . |
| 8 | Dino had broken down , and it had been one of the best races of the whole season , but then maybe the driver was prejudiced , she told herself sourly . |
| 9 | And it had been easy to ignore them , not to listen , to walk away , when he believed them to be just dirt . |
| 10 | There was more wrong with Sheridan than ill-temper , and it had been obvious to his father for a long time . |
| 11 | … and it had been disconcerting . |
| 12 | But we were moving in different directions and it had been clear for some while that we stayed together out of habit . |
| 13 | It was n't really their Auntie 's pub , but she worked there and it had been convenient to make all the arrangements on a friendly family footing . |
| 14 | They had lived with her for three months before they got this place , and it had been three months too long as far as he was concerned . |
| 15 | But , city dweller as she had always been , she had been aware of every sound — the gentle lapping noises of the canal against the side of the boat , the small night sounds of birds and other creatures , and it had been some time before weary body and brain relaxed . |
| 16 | Whichever way , she probably had n't given it much thought at the time and it had been some time later when her mother had told her that he had left the country and gone abroad to work . |
| 17 | At school we were weighed regularly — at the beginning , middle and end of each term — and it had been customary for me to record my weight in my diary on all these occasions . |
| 18 | But it had been close and the children had never taken liberties with the river again . |
| 19 | It was a very dowdy dress , and old , and it smelled of mothballs and , faintly , of years of perspiration soaked into the fabric , but it had been well and carefully preserved . |
| 20 | Losing his job with the band had not really been to do with his mother being ill , but it had been easy to suggest the idea to Barnett . |
| 21 | She 'd only met him a few times , but it had been easy for Julie to see that Ross Wyndham was even more Leo-like than his wife . |
| 22 | And she kept trying to convince herself that Julius would never carry out his threat , but it had been four very long years that they had been apart . |
| 23 | He saw and he cared , but it had been many months since he had counted with her . |
| 24 | He does not greatly care for the dark purplish bathroom suite ( ‘ Damson ’ , the estate agent 's brochure had called the shade ) but it had been one of the things that attracted Marjorie when they bought the house two years ago — the bathroom , with its kidney-shaped handbasin and goldplated taps and sunken bath and streamlined loo and bidet . |
| 25 | He had been scared then but it had been short-lived : terror lasting a matter of a few seconds , a minute at most . |
| 26 | But it had been simmering for a couple of years before that . |
| 27 | But it had been inconceivable that it would really come to such a point . |
| 28 | It was unthinkable that John could be dead , but it had been unthinkable that he would be held for this long and it had happened . |
| 29 | It made a good reason for those excluded to dislike Miss Morgan , but it had been true any time these past two years . |
| 30 | He had changed his name , of course , but it had been obvious to Fedorov that he was the same man he had disposed of in the Stadtpark three weeks before . |