Example sentences of "it had been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been badly lacerated , he said , but it would heal up well . |
| 2 | I sent the cheque back , saying that although it had been immensely good of them to bring me up , I must have been a great burden and was now a disappointment , so I would prefer them to keep this money as some repayment for all they had done . |
| 3 | And yet … the thought crept back just before she drifted off to sleep … it had been rather nice that he had actually noticed her in the past , and noticed her to such an extent that he was now in a position to compare the woman she 'd become to the girl she 'd once been . |
| 4 | The next day we hired a Panda auto and nipped off for a game of golf , it had been rather warm and on returning Sonya suggested I remove my cerise tweeds and let my cornet Kascade down . |
| 5 | The term ‘ inflammatory fibroid polyp ’ is now generally accepted and is regarded as distinct from eosinophilic gastroenteritis and other conditions with which it had been previously confused . |
| 6 | It had been bitterly cold . |
| 7 | But it had been mostly verbal . |
| 8 | And as Old Mother Potts would n't allow men visitors , and Len did n't like dancing , it had been pretty dreary just walking about the wintry streets together . |
| 9 | True , it had been reasonably light when they left the station , and Glasgow , its war scars softened by the approaching night , had seemed like Liverpool to Vi . |
| 10 | They had returned on the late theatre train , and it had been most pleasant walking down from the railway station and along the seafront so late at night ; ah , to have a pretty girl by one 's side , and the touch of her lips on yours . |
| 11 | Late in 1941 a memorandum to the National Executive indicated , as might have been expected , that the main area of loss of membership was London and the home and eastern counties , where it had been most necessary to evacuate the population . |
| 12 | It had been most enjoyable with a tremendous amount of flying : I had been in every part of the Command — Persia as it was in those days , down the Gulf and all the way round the Gulf to Bahrain , Salalah , I took part in the search for the Imperial Airways Argosy airliner City of Glasgow that landed on the beach and was literally lost for a couple of days before one of the Shaihah crews found it away down beyond Sulwah Wells . |
| 13 | It had been singularly successful in achieving a synthesis of local and cosmopolitan , rural and urban , into a religious culture of remarkable vitality and tenacity , even in the seventh century . |
| 14 | The immediate catalyst for his removal was an inept press conference on Dec. 5 in which he declared the recession to be abating , only hours before the publication of official figures which showed that GDP had declined 0.3 per cent in the three months to September , the sixth successive quarter for which it had been either static or negative . |
| 15 | It had been particularly disastrous in Germany and Britain , the countries for which it had been designed . |
| 16 | ‘ We probably would n't have signed if it had been just SGI , ’ Ousley says . |
| 17 | In the old days , it had been just poor . |
| 18 | Well quite a lot , we we went out with them for a meal last night erm we had an interpreter who who was the only one that could speak English but it was it was well worth the evening , it did a lot for relationships and I think that there should be more of this in football , that off the field people should get to know each other a lot better and we felt at the end of the evening that it had been well worthwhile . |
| 19 | Rachaela had played in it for hours , she was six , it had been oddly magical . |
| 20 | It had been largely dormant since the late 1950s and during the communal violence of the summer of 1969 , many embittered Catholics had voiced their anger at its lack of action by saying that IRA stood for ‘ I Ran Away ’ . |
| 21 | It had been ridiculously easy to track him down . |
| 22 | It had been wickedly symbolic , stage-managed to stir in her a cold feeling of dread . |
| 23 | It had been splendidly undemanding ; because of his family , she did not see him more than a few times a month , always meetings snatched at short notice and with absolutely no expectation from him that she would be available . |
| 24 | It had been damn close , touch and go ; so he had thought , for Phillis , a widow 's pension . |
| 25 | I had just as much percentage in attracting that plane if it had been humanly possible . |
| 26 | She realised that it had been deliberately left open to add to her humiliation . |
| 27 | It had been quite crowded , but she had sat quietly in the corner with a drink . |
| 28 | But later , I realized that it had been quite good for me and stopped me getting big-headed . |
| 29 | So it had been quite refreshing when Luke had said goodbye with no more than the lightest brush of his lips against her cheek . |
| 30 | Jinny remembered it clearly because it had been quite different from all the solemn newspaper cuttings Keith had shown her , and she had stopped to make fun of one or two of Harriet Shakespeare 's more nauseating remarks . |