Example sentences of "it had [be] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may even have said in the spirit of the joke that it had been one hundred and fifty-six whores , for all the world as though it was of an obsessive importance for the actual number to be known with absolute accuracy ! |
| 2 | It had been one of those days . |
| 3 | It had been one of those suggestions that stuns everyone with its rightness . |
| 4 | Clause 9 of the Party programme could not be blamed , as Rosa Luxemburg argued , for the disintegration of the old Russia ; it had been one of the resources for saving what had been saved . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If it had been one of the local men , he explained to Sandison , there would have been no problem , but Maidstone was another matter . |
| 7 | Also , one of my carers — who is very caring , goes all the time , does the work for the person — is very young and quite quiet , and I feel … well last week a doctor came in to see her client , and if it had been one of the older carers I 'm sure they would have had a go at the doctor and forced him to do more than he actually did . |
| 8 | Christ , it had been one hell of a thrash , an absolute bloody classic . |
| 9 | When he was young , it had been one of the days he most looked forward to . |
| 10 | ‘ It had been one of the flatest , non-turners of the season . |
| 11 | It had been one of those bloody-minded mornings , when everything went wrong and even inanimate objects seemed to have banded together in a conspiracy against him . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It had been one of those days when everything had gone wrong : the stake-out at the Saudi Embassy had produced exactly nothing ; a false alarm , and after six , agonisingly boring hours , Cowley had called through the most welcome of messages : Go home lads . |
| 14 | It had been one of Gregory 's first acts as pope to invest and consecrate him as bishop of Die , and to follow this up with a letter to the count of Die which contains a first draft of his later decree prohibiting the investiture of bishops by secular rulers . |
| 15 | It had been one of our opener 's better days , and he had manoeuvred his way to a total of 10 runs . |
| 16 | She could look back on that time with a great deal of fondness ; it had been one of the few times in her life when she had been truly free — there had been no one , neither family , friends nor employer — to make demands on her . |
| 17 | It had been one way of making firms more competitive . |
| 18 | It had been one of those mornings when the early sun striking the coloured glass of the landing window had tinted the dark hall with amber light . |
| 19 | If so , it had been one more error of judgment to add to the bleak arithmetic of failure since he had taken up his new job . |
| 20 | It had been one of the kindlier gases , so the after-effects left me feeling only as if I has swallowed barbed wire and my brain was battering at the inside of my skull . |
| 21 | It had been one of the reasons their marriage had failed . |
| 22 | Dino had broken down , and it had been one of the best races of the whole season , but then maybe the driver was prejudiced , she told herself sourly . |
| 23 | It had been one of those deep , deep sleeps ; the kind when you do n't know a thing until your mum starts yelling at you for the umpteenth time that you 're going to be late for school if you do n't get up . |
| 24 | It had been one of the few mistakes Gould had ever made . |
| 25 | It had been one of her favourites , during her course at the college . |