Example sentences of "it had [been] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not sleep well that night : it had been a great day and the call of the wild kept me nervous and excited . |
| 2 | Since it had been a great success when read aloud to ‘ our local club ’ , Tolkien had absolute confidence in submitting it to the publisher of The Hobbit , Stanley Unwin . |
| 3 | It had been a great relief to learn from the lawyers that Sunset Cottage , Overclyst , their new home , was already furnished . |
| 4 | It had been a great moment . |
| 5 | All three teachers were adamant that despite the lack of time for consultation , the lack of space and resources and other problems that had nothing to do with the curricular rationale behind the project , it had been a great success . |
| 6 | Kenneth thought it had been a great year . |
| 7 | It had been a great directorship . |
| 8 | it had been a great patrol during which we had made a lot of new friends , carried out a great deal of work en route and broken into completely new territory for the cutters . |
| 9 | As the neighbours started to emerge later in the day , everyone agreed it had been a great San Juan . |
| 10 | Mr Devlin said afterwards it had been a great day in Yarm 's history . |