Example sentences of "[conj] it was [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he also introduce training schemes to put the United Kingdom back where it was before we had a Tory Government and to take it out of this recession ? |
| 2 | She had n't mentioned where it was but she had spoken of it with love . |
| 3 | where it was but I came across somewhere where there was a freephone and people at a g on a given sort of in a given week could all just go and use this freephone number , and ring up and they 'd hear a tape recording . |
| 4 | She asked him to hold the screen just where it was and she went round the back of it , out of his sight . |
| 5 | And I have to say that it was after we had done a course for them on really bad press releases , because we , they had done some pretty awful press releases in the past , and we were delighted when that one came out because it actually showed that they 'd picked up the message . |
| 6 | Lawyer A checked in his books , but said that it was as he had feared ‘ You are either insured or you are not . |
| 7 | Experience had taught him that it was when you stopped to catch your breath that things caught you . |
| 8 | He asked them why elephants did n't ride bicycles and explained that it was because they had n't any thumbs to ring the bell with . |
| 9 | If , nevertheless , it is accurate , and Eadric was known as someone unwilling to oppose the Scandinavians , one can speculate that it was because he profited from the raising of tribute by acquiring the lands of defaulters . |
| 10 | I did not ask him why , but I sensed that it was because he knew the culprit . |
| 11 | Indeed , quite early on , I tried to work out in my mind what it was that made his personality ( though he did not like the word ) so compelling ; and I came to the conclusion that it was because he did not let me down in my own estimation of him . |
| 12 | On being asked what constituted such vulgarity , it was explained that it was because it had ‘ neither vest nor pants to cover his lower limbs ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ When I got back and found your note I did n't think for a minute that it was because you thought I was the father of the child . |
| 14 | I used to tell myself that it was because I wanted so much to believe it that I felt that way . |
| 15 | If Alina was looking cynical , Angelica could only suppose that it was because she 'd earned the right to be . |
| 16 | In other words , the total reproductive success that my parental investment has produced is now greater than it was before I started . |
| 17 | On awakening it will rise from five to ten beats a minute , and during the day it will rise gradually and may be up to ten beats higher at bedtime than it was when you got up in the morning . |
| 18 | He varied his dancing routine with occasional headlong gallops round the lawn and it was after he had done about ten successive laps that he seemed to decide he ought to do something about the bitch . |
| 19 | I was pregnant with Nicola and it was that we wanted to change the car , what did we have , a Metropole at the |
| 20 | He was only missing from Palace line-ups from that time as a result of injury or illness , though his playing record demonstrates that he was prone to neither , and it was while we had Billy Callender in goal that Palace came closest to returning to Division 2 in 1928–29 , when we finished as runners-up to Charlton on goal average . |
| 21 | And it was before you had your pacers and sprinters . |
| 22 | Yes it was , and it was and I do n't want |
| 23 | Well , the legislation in Britain , the first law which is the law from which our present wages councils for people like hairdressers came from erm was passed in nineteen oh nine , and it was because we had a reforming Liberal Government at the time . |
| 24 | And it was because you told her I was to be the baby 's legal mother when the adoption went through . ’ |
| 25 | And it was as he turned from her , that jewel box in his hand , that he suddenly knew who had taken those jewels , and his anger carried him away from Charity 's pain and her need . |
| 26 | And it was as she hesitated , thinking of Liam , touched as so often , and usually at the wrong moment , by the silence and sadness of him which so troubled her , wondering if a sugar stick would lighten it , that she felt herself suddenly surrounded not by the usual ebb and flow of the market day crowd but by something much more purposeful . |
| 27 | This place had bred romance after romance , and it was as if it was that she had felt tingling in the air all night , like a presence … |
| 28 | what the valency is to make up this formula you could do the same if it was if someone told you it was an some unknown So if it 's an unknown compound and I drip Let's say it was unknown compound and I dripped hydrochloric acid on and I got carbon dioxide given off yeah |
| 29 | She wished he were not being so kind , so tender — even if it was because he hoped to cajole her into selling him her house . |
| 30 | Dorothea had always wondered if it was because she despised her . |