Example sentences of "but it had [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But it had been close and the children had never taken liberties with the river again . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | He saw and he cared , but it had been many months since he had counted with her . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | He had been scared then but it had been short-lived : terror lasting a matter of a few seconds , a minute at most . |
9 | But it had been simmering for a couple of years before that . |
10 | But it had been inconceivable that it would really come to such a point . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | It made a good reason for those excluded to dislike Miss Morgan , but it had been true any time these past two years . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | But it had been enough to ensure him , at least pictorially , a vicarious immortality . |