Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [coord] it [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise it tends to make the whole picture , like , I went to er er one club once and there was a very nice portrait , not unlike this , there was a girl sitting on a stool , rather less clothes on than this girl has got and it was very nicely done except she was sitting on a painted stool and all the paint was chipped and that to me looked really tacky ! |
| 2 | The three others rose to leave and it was only at the very last moment that he added , almost casually : ‘ What message were you supposed to phone to the American Consulate ? ’ |
| 3 | See we er we tried to get and it was about ten to twelve so I thought , I thought Carole was n't coming till the next bus so I 'd go down and pick her up . |
| 4 | oh the cupboards are brilliant it 's just the fronts are so dated and the man in these reports in the house said erm , kitchen is satisfactory but it needs updating and it was only about seven years ago it was brand new , no , not seven , have we been in then , no eight , so nine or something , I know the fronts need sorting out . |
| 5 | When I 'd finished and it was just the two of us left I put my arms around him and kissed his face . |
| 6 | That unsettled me a bit , but we eventually got going and it was all right . |
| 7 | She was enjoying herself so much that she stayed on the floor longer than she should have done and it was only when she saw Mrs Freer making furious faces at her from the doorway that she turned and glided back . |
| 8 | rubbish should have gone and it was only the |
| 9 | Support for the Greens may have shrunk but it was still at the same level as the Liberal Democrats ’ , the third party in Parliament , so perhaps Ms Cooke was unduly downcast . |
| 10 | Never went out till Friday because it was , they went walking but it was so windy cos they 're here and the garden 's sort of down to a field and then it 's all fields and fields and fields and the wind just comes across like gales all the time . |
| 11 | Yeah and the best bit about it is I have n't started to indicate but it was still a dangerous place to overtake . |
| 12 | By then it had started to rain and it was very cold along the coast . |
| 13 | There was not a lot of the ship left to see and it was very cold , below zero in fact . |
| 14 | I stirred the potato powder into the liquid and would have begun eating but it was too hot . |
| 15 | The faces at the ground-floor window had disappeared and it was extraordinarily quiet . |
| 16 | The sun had set and it was already quite dark in the Gardens . |
| 17 | ‘ He showed me a list of what had eaten and it was quite extraordinary . |
| 18 | It was by then already obvious that the schools had overcome their first reservations er about what the scheme had to offer and it was so obvious that they deserved recognition for their efforts that it led to my colleagues , Councillor and putting down the motion to Council in April of this year , drawing attention to the continuing success in schools throughout the district of the Local Management initiative . |
| 19 | So he taught me to drive see and It was much easier then you see with a car . |