Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [subord] it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It still retained the same dark blue colour that it had when it was stamped into the passport by a British policeman 32 years earlier ; last exit from Palestine . |
| 2 | Those who saw it at the time have never been able to erase the startling impact that it made when it was given its short-lived British premiere at Sadler 's Wells in 1965 . |
| 3 | Higham and Jones have argued , on the sole evidence of internal timber buildings , that another fort was constructed after a short interval early in the second century , and that it survived until it was demolished in the late second century ; no contemporary fortifications for it have yet been recorded . |
| 4 | It is worth remembering that Basildon and Thurrock health authority now treats 11,000 more patients in hospital each year than it did when it was first created in 1982 . |
| 5 | All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by . |
| 6 | and I just , I threw buckets of water on it to rinse it , and it dried because it was really warm and it came up like new |
| 7 | Indeed , recombination probably emerged very early indeed in the history of life , and it spread because it was a way of repairing damaged nucleic acids . |
| 8 | " Aye , " said the old farmer , " that 's cos it smoked when it were little . " |
| 9 | Though small in comparison to the size of the total workforce , there were 33 of us , but it felt like it was 66 . |
| 10 | The government of Bosnia-Hercegovina under President Alija Izetbegovic continued as the internationally recognized government of Bosnia-Hercegovina but had lost control of most of the territory of the state as it existed when it was recognized internationally in April 1992 [ see p. 38848 ] . |
| 11 | Fergus waited until the herd was as close as it looked like it was going to come , then sighted on the limping beast , still two hundred yards away . |
| 12 | No no and we even if we were offered them we would n't take them because the logic of the thing is that what we 're trying to show is a medieval house as it looked when it was nearly new . |
| 13 | Now we do n't have any new things , I should have Thank you for asking the question because we 're trying to give the impression of a medieval house the what 's special about this is that it 's a medieval house as it looked when it was new . |
| 14 | Look through the south door to the garden and there , across the moat , the formal garden of yews and allées stretches towards the downs just as it did when it was first laid out . |