Example sentences of "it have be [pron] [det] " in BNC.

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1 He glanced over his shoulder again , and discovered that the two men were nowhere to be seen — it had been nothing more than his imagination .
2 She remembered the needle going into flesh , but she was not sure that it had been her own .
3 Could she not say that it had been her own choice to leave the Longhills , that they were not suited to one another ?
4 Yet , like so many other things she later regretted , it had been her own decision .
5 It had been her own fault , in a way : she had been reluctant to talk about it in front of Francis .
6 At the editorial conference Rain brushed aside Holly 's error of judgement as blithely as if it had been her own .
7 I 'm sure she would n't have taken the matter lightly if it had been her own colleagues who had been beaten up and tortured .
8 On reflection he was sure that it had been his own personal brush with the Sabbah organisation two years earlier that had caused him to overreact .
9 Yet it had been his own vision , his own analysis , his own solution .
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