Example sentences of "it had been the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all much as it had been the first time , only evening instead of morning ; and Emily stood by herself as before , and now he knew why , wearing his ring on another finger . |
| 2 | It had been the first time that he had really seen Sara in tears . |
| 3 | It had been the first casino in modern Russia , had operated out of a converted bedroom on the second floor . |
| 4 | It had been the first definite sign that something was wrong ; though she had been moody and withdrawn for some weeks before , he had thought this a normal reaction to her baby 's death . |
| 5 | From 1904 it had been the last Romanov 's main home . |