Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] it was [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had no time to hide before it was over and gone . |
| 2 | Perhaps the decision was made because it was here that Manzoni fell when attempting to negotiate a stairway with more enthusiasm than regard for his age . |
| 3 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 4 | Coleridge rationalized the departure in his poem ‘ Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement ’ , asking whether it was right that he should live in beauty and solitude while his ‘ unnumber 'd brethren toil 'd and bled ’ in the greater world . |
| 5 | There was a madness about and I could n't tell whether it was within or without me , or either or neither . |
| 6 | Somewhere , he could not tell whether it was near or far , somewhere outside his present universe of ice , a bell was tolling . |
| 7 | He had stopped stealing , or , rather , Emmie thought he had : sometimes she wondered if it was just that she was n't keeping a proper watch on him . |
| 8 | But Judith wondered if it was really as clearcut as that . |