Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] [coord] it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said she 'd got him to agree that day and it was no use arguing because it was her price for keeping her promise to be silent about her work on the other paintings . ’ |
| 2 | we 'll walk down the road at the back and we 'd only just turned round the corner from the Claremont and we found this restaurant and it was , it was an absolutely brilliant chef , really nice restaurant , really high quality and it was was quite reasonable price , it was n't cheap . |
| 3 | she found this booklet and it were like a cheque book |
| 4 | Number eight Dave Cook provided excellent support and it was his pass to Steve Glen that allowed the scrum-half to scamper over for the score . |
| 5 | A man certainly came that night but it was to see her , not her husband . ’ |
| 6 | In wartime food had got to be produced , and all the young men were off the land , somebody 'd got to grow the food to feed this country and it was getting a bit desperate , because , old Hitler , he was no fool . |
| 7 | The ambiguous status of blacks , as neither invaders nor indigenous Americans , caused some controversy but it was agreed to keep them within the overall campaign . |
| 8 | ‘ He played great golf and it was very sad for him to lose by missing that putt . ’ |
| 9 | It was held that the facts did not show any detinue and it was also said that C had done no wrong by not allowing A to enter and remove them . |
| 10 | But there was a house on this repossession and it was sort of like just a sort of young couple and they 'd bought this house and it was like a two bedroom house and they 'd done up beautiful . |
| 11 | The PSD 's post-1987 free market policies encouraged private-sector growth but it was only after the 1989 constitutional changes [ see p. 36857 ] that a more radical privatization programme designed to break up public monopolies could go ahead . |
| 12 | ‘ I got good contact but it was straight at Chris , ’ recalled Linighan . |
| 13 | The Dornier made good time and it was shortly after two in the morning when Devlin jumped at five thousand feet . |
| 14 | And they were buying this house and it was worth something like I do n't know , they were , they 'd got a twenty five grand mortgage . |
| 15 | Apart from one major attack on a convoy off Kent in 1706 the French were content to rely on their privateers to menace English shipping and it was the achievements of her army that formed the great glory of Anne 's reign . |
| 16 | So , because we were in the A A he said you could have a ba , and we had to go to court , we had a summons for court , for careless driving , your dad and your dad said oh so A A said you could have barrister , or our insurers said we could have a barrister our insurers , not the one with we 're with now Norman , he was to do all the , said we could have this barrister and it was at Liverpool Crown Court and , it was n't till a , and I was alright we we just got a bit of a shock , you know , we could drive the home it was the wing and what not . |
| 17 | Ince needed long treatment and it was later discovered he had damaged ankle ligaments . |
| 18 | Saturday night ; the pubs in the street would be doing good business but it was very quiet , only a faint hiss of escaping steam coming from the docks . |
| 19 | The ladies seemed slower than the men to start post-war golf and it was November 1949 before they played any competition . |
| 20 | I started using one hand and it was ages before I learnt to use two . |
| 21 | Yes , I saw that bit and it was n't good |
| 22 | I spent about seven weeks there and I felt great inside but it was like I was wearing the wrong slip cover . |
| 23 | She might be better at thinking up things as stupid as their games ( infinite pieces which were only infinite in one direction , from a point ; you could hold one end but it was still infinite ! |
| 24 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
| 25 | That was totally unplanned. erm I was told by a friend that there was erm Pebble Mill were going to organise an Environment Project Competition for Great Britain , and they suggested I sent for a form , which I did , and filled it in , and erm to my astonishment a film crew came down and filmed the pond , and later on I was invited with my husband to Pebble Mill to get this award and it was given me by Virginia Mackenna and Bill Waters , and David Bellamy was there , and erm we had a wonderful time . |
| 26 | They were erm a bit reluctant and were going to fight against it cos they thought they were going to look for er places to bury nuclear waste and it was shelved but I ca n't prove them right and I ca n't prove them wrong . |
| 27 | Th there was sort of decorations on the saddles and things like that you know , and er , er , they had this firm and it was up of course , well , and it , to tell how far it was I had to be in by seven o'clock and I used to run it all the way . |
| 28 | She had another prescription and it was nearly three weeks and she still , now , I mean this is like Five weeks she 's still got like a residual |
| 29 | sorry mastitis er and it would help if she had another baby and it was of course was actually cancer , it was a disaster . |
| 30 | But we actually needed a procedure , that procedure was followed as best we could by borrowing another rule and it was achieved at the end of the day . |