Example sentences of "it had [been] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It had been utter surprise and defeat , casualties grievous . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam , and far fuller than it had been that morning . |
| 12 | The ground fire was much worse than it had been that morning . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It had been one way of making firms more competitive . |
| 15 | Christ , it had been one hell of a thrash , an absolute bloody classic . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was shimmering under the surface as it had been all afternoon . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | When she had met Margrida d'Arcos , Vitor 's widowed mother , it had been instant rapport . |
| 20 | It had been sheer vanity that had made Fran call at the exclusive boutique on the way home from work , and now as she studied the dress she wondered if that vanity had bordered on madness ! |
| 21 | It had been hard work , but now I understood why people wanted to be National Trust volunteers . |
| 22 | My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary recently came out of his negotiations with , among others , our French partners , and , in his diplomatic way , observed that , like Waterloo , it had been hard pounding . |
| 23 | The marsh-mist was far denser than it had been last night , and there was nothing solid to give direction anywhere . |
| 24 | It had been scientific ignorance , he suggested , that had permitted the clumsy models of the universe characteristic of Ptolemy 's astronomy . |
| 25 | It had been tough going , but Proby was grateful enough to knock a century off the £500 I owe him . |
| 26 | Forgotten , or decided it had been idle talk , a vow impossible to realise . |
| 27 | What if it had been some lunatic who sounded like her , someone who had lured her here for a reason . |
| 28 | Well , it had been some while since she 'd walked ten miles in one go — or even five , for that matter , she excused her fluttering heart . |
| 29 | It had been some time since I had visited Ingleborough , so last summer I went back with a couple of friends to rediscover some of its hidden treasures . |
| 30 | It had been some time since they had had the chance for such indulgences . |