Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [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 | And in fact what I did do was erm went and bought her a secondhand wardrobe , took it to her , and she was really pleased because apparently she thought it was a better one than the first one . |
| 8 | So you say it was a few railway men that got together and |
| 9 | Apparently they thought it was the cleaning heads by the , the heads of it , I do n't know , I know nothing about it . |
| 10 | Because the chairman of the committee in the senate that decided this came from Texas and this provides lots of jobs in Houston so he thought it was a jolly good idea . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | No , it 's not I thought it was a bit thin . |
| 13 | Unconsciously we feel it was a fluke and we are afraid of being found out . |
| 14 | Well when we got it home I realized it was the battery lead that was just a little bit of lead |
| 15 | Possibly someone assumed it was a concentrated form of oxygen , and therefore invigorating . |
| 16 | No-one was ever able to locate the elusive and possibly mythical teenager who supposedly became pregnant in Mr Moore 's constituency merely to jump the housing queue , but still he knew it was a serious issue . |
| 17 | The sexual content would not , Nicholson always believed , guarantee that the film would become a major commercial success ; nonetheless he thought it was a film worth making , one which would make a statement and provide BBS with a good return . |
| 18 | Then in the morning he thought he 'd better be getting back home so he started home and when he got home he discovered it was the harvest time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was heading towards the castle , and as it came nearer she saw it was a skier . |
| 22 | When Les Dawson was a guest on the show , we discovered that he and Ken had been at school together , and Les could not resist reminding him of those happy days : ‘ The school we went to was so poor , if you put your hand up they thought it was a hold up . |
| 23 | Looking up he saw it was a different man from the one who had chosen not to see . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Now I thought it was an equally good answer to what was the best kind of life . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | That 's a good job I found now you said it was a letter head paper , well that ai n't a letter head paper ! |
| 28 | So sometimes I wallop it in , sometime the the other one would stick his finger through the hole , and the riveter would be dying to be hitting it back he thought it was a drift you know . |
| 29 | ‘ When he came back he announced it was the King who had died in his sleep and it had been on the wireless . ’ |
| 30 | Well I thought it was a good film . |