Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] it was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I seen one woman and she had a police uniform on , so obviously I knew it was the police . |
| 2 | And obviously I think it was a revenge job by the sound of it . |
| 3 | Personally I thought it was a load of fucking cobblers and yet that was the swamp from which punk rock emerged . |
| 4 | Er there must have been a at one time it , it had been six o'clock I think it was a quarter to six we finished . |
| 5 | And and but the only comment I 'd like to make is that there was a suggestion in I think it was a that the necessity to protect agricultural land had diminished since the food from our own resources and government 's policy . |
| 6 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |
| 7 | But some of the children there erm , somebody must have been very , very , optimistic because we put a lot , a lot of presents in there , but anyway I think it was a superb night , and , and , and the meeting of er , to get together in the fire station afterwards , quite , in the Price Room was very good . |
| 8 | No , it 's not I thought it was a bit thin . |
| 9 | Well when we got it home I realized it was the battery lead that was just a little bit of lead |
| 10 | At first I thought it was a handkerchief , but when I stooped to pick it up I saw it was a cream-coloured glove ; and of all gloves , an elbow-length woman 's glove . |
| 11 | And they had a what they called the twenty four girls dancing you know , and also they , they had the , a film in the show which probably I think it was a Bing Crosby film that was on . |
| 12 | Now I know it was a great honour but I could see no way of accepting , so I put it on the mantelpiece and more or less prepared to forget all about it . |
| 13 | Now I thought it was an equally good answer to what was the best kind of life . |
| 14 | When I started to think about these things I was in a position to interpret this way of living and eating as a variation on the spending patterns of poverty described in Booth 's and Rowntree 's surveys ; but now I think it was the cheapness of it that propelled the practice . |
| 15 | Well I thought it was a good film . |
| 16 | Well I thought it was a little bit different myself . |
| 17 | Well I thought it was the forced |
| 18 | Well I mean it was a lot |
| 19 | Well I think it was a marvellous evening . |
| 20 | Well I think it was the discipline that you 'd got in those days . |
| 21 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
| 22 | Well I suppose it was a bit far fetched . |
| 23 | Er in the way that they and they sort of well I suppose it was the situation in which the quarries you know sort of or and . |
| 24 | you know , where I belong , I , I do n't quite honestly do n't really like Harlow New Town any more , I al I did up until about oh eight or nine years ago I thought it was a great place and all , all the cockneys that said , you know , oh I 'd love to be back in London , I thought they were barmy , you know to live in London the di the difference is , I mean my husband 's a cockney and he would n't , would never , well now he would never go back to London you know , it 's a dump , he , he likes Harlow , but er I think I do n't like it now because it 's expanded so much , you know when we , when we were first here , mind you when we first moved in it was ever so difficult for us kids because , there , there was the Old Town kids versus the New Town kids and they hated us , they really |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I was going to that night of the dance and then I thought it was a bad time with it being Christmas and the New Year coming right afterwards . |
| 26 | When I left there I thought it was the happiest day of my life , but it was n't . |
| 27 | half nine that 's why I thought it was the garage door . |
| 28 | Yes , that s why I said it was a bit worrying before . |
| 29 | That 's why I say it was a sad time . ’ |