Example sentences of "it had [been] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could remember the incident quite clearly , although the circumstances surrounding it had vanished into oblivion , beyond recall of any form of analysis : it had been early afternoon , so clearly not a party incident — maybe they had had lunch together ? — and she had been anxious about picking up children from school . |
| 2 | It had been frustrating hanging about the beach beneath Four Winds , watching Celia and the nursemaid spend what seemed to Freddie endless hours doing nothing much at all . |
| 3 | From that first introduction it had been all-out war . |
| 4 | It had been great fun , much more so than he had anticipated . |
| 5 | It had been great fun . |
| 6 | It had been five hours since he 'd got home , and he had n't slept in that time . |
| 7 | Most head teachers questioned thought the position was worse than it had been five years earlier . |
| 8 | It had been five years since the President had last presented the awards for gallantry and to voluntary workers , and in his opening remarks he reflected that in that time over 7,600 lives had been saved , 180 new boats built and lifeboat technology had advanced by leaps and bounds . |
| 9 | You see , your subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined ; so , although the information it had received during those twelve days was in fact a product of Sylvia 's imagination , the effect on her subconscious was precisely the same as if it had been actual experience . |
| 10 | Even in India , where Owen had served before he came to Egypt , and where in his latter years he had been seconded from his regiment to an Intelligence post on the Frontier , it had been normal practice to purchase information . |
| 11 | It had been utter surprise and defeat , casualties grievous . |
| 12 | The ensuing reforms were implemented piecemeal and did not fundamentally change the system , but procedure was considerably more summary by 1900 than it had been fifty years earlier . |
| 13 | I cried in surprise , for it had been four years since he disappeared . |
| 14 | It had been four years since Jessamy had seen her , and she did n't seem to have changed at all . |
| 15 | It had been four months altogether before he returned to the Works , by which time Andrew Jones had been installed in the showrooms as assistant salesman . |
| 16 | It had been four days since the of worlder had said what he thought would be required , and still parin had not provided his answer . |
| 17 | It had been traditional weather , with snow and frosty mornings to highlight the glittering hilly landscape of North Derbyshire , where we had enjoyed our Christmas holiday . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam , and far fuller than it had been that morning . |
| 20 | The ground fire was much worse than it had been that morning . |
| 21 | Then it had been Roman revenge against an uprising — but the seizure and detonation of an Israeli atomic bomb by terrorists had made a second holocaust of the land that once was known as Holy . |
| 22 | Though I 'd visited the family in Al Ain and Abu Dhabi , it had been two years since I 'd been to their camp on the Gulf . |
| 23 | It was almost a physical pain and for a moment he felt shocked because it had been many years since the agony of losing Gerda . |
| 24 | He saw and he cared , but it had been many months since he had counted with her . |
| 25 | It had been one way of making firms more competitive . |
| 26 | Christ , it had been one hell of a thrash , an absolute bloody classic . |
| 27 | It had been one thing to be suddenly full of Dutch courage at the thought that Freddie Nash , having seen Eleanor again , had decided to seek her out . |
| 28 | It was shimmering under the surface as it had been all afternoon . |
| 29 | ‘ Leith , ’ he said , but his look was no warmer , no less arrogant than it had been all morning , ‘ you do n't … ’ he went on , and seemed slightly stuck for words . |
| 30 | It had been all whispers and lies till they got to the shop . |