Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] it be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only I said it 's an open invitation when it 's left on the doorstep you see . |
| 2 | I seen one woman and she had a police uniform on , so obviously I knew it was the police . |
| 3 | Personally I thought it was a load of fucking cobblers and yet that was the swamp from which punk rock emerged . |
| 4 | so I thought it 's a fairly safe bet . |
| 5 | And so I thought it is a very neglected subject . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Apparently they thought it was the cleaning heads by the , the heads of it , I do n't know , I know nothing about it . |
| 8 | So they said it 's a bad address . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | No , it 's not I thought it was a bit thin . |
| 11 | Well when we got it home I realized it was the battery lead that was just a little bit of lead |
| 12 | Possibly someone assumed it was a concentrated form of oxygen , and therefore invigorating . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was heading towards the castle , and as it came nearer she saw it was a skier . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Looking up he saw it was a different man from the one who had chosen not to see . |
| 20 | Not that there is anything to lose by keeping the door open , but really I believed it is every man for himself . |
| 21 | Now I thought it was an equally good answer to what was the best kind of life . |
| 22 | But that Sat Sunday when Hazel was here and I , and she did n't want to go so I said I 'd stay with her and cook the dinner when y when you came back you said it 's a good job you did n't come , it did n't finish till half past twelve and you came straight home and you were here about |
| 23 | 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 ! |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ When he came back he announced it was the King who had died in his sleep and it had been on the wireless . ’ |
| 26 | Well I thought it was a good film . |
| 27 | Well I thought it was a little bit different myself . |
| 28 | Well I thought it was the forced |
| 29 | Erm well I said it 's a bit awkward really |
| 30 | 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 |