Example sentences of "it [was/were] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two walls are broken by windows , a third is occupied by the fireplace ; a battered electric cooker and an old sink , which looks as if it were last used to dip sheep , stand on either side of another locked and bolted door . |
| 2 | On a were it last Sunday , yeah it were last Sunday when I took off , er Lisa always goes down to 'elp 'er , when , like what , you know when Eileen cut her finger , what did she do to her finger ? |
| 3 | I took her to school last week , anyway I think it were last Thursday |
| 4 | but I were n't sure where , I think it were last week it were gon na be |
| 5 | It was second best to a deal with a major label . |
| 6 | In terms of excuses , the jury was told , it was second only to the old chestnut that ‘ it fell off the back of a lorry ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ It was second nature to look at the linesman but I knew I was on . ’ |
| 8 | Andy Partner appeared as a second half substitute for fellow youth team centre-half Paul Flowers , but it was second substitute Steve Ball who was quickest into the action . |
| 9 | It was second nature to him now to note the time by the illuminated dial of his electric bedside clock before he had switched on his lamp , a second after he had felt for and silenced the raucous insistence of the telephone . |
| 10 | It was second nature to weigh up a situation and draw conclusions but this was not just another news story , this was different . |
| 11 | If the plaintiff 's solicitor has to swear an affidavit of service he must specifically state that first class post was used , otherwise the court will presume it was second class post . |
| 12 | He either did n't believe her , or was so unused to accepting answers unquestioningly that it was second nature for him to delve into the nitty-gritty . |
| 13 | At that time , Lincolnshire was the second largest county in England but it was thirteenth in terms of population ; it had only 208,557 people in 1801 and 407,222 fifty years later . |
| 14 | As Bernard Joy has observed , ‘ it was twentieth century , terse , exciting , spectacular , economic , devastating . ’ |
| 15 | If we 'd won it was 2nd place . |
| 16 | Leonard was but 21 when it was first published , though the poems were culled from his output from 15 to 20 years of age , according to an interview he gave to Andrew Tyler of Disc in 1972 . |
| 17 | It was first noted in Ballet Imperial ( 1941 ) when every time a scale-like passage in the second movement of Tchaikovsky 's Piano Concerto No. 2 is played , the three soloists link hands to make two arches through which the corps de ballet ‘ ran round the houses ’ ( Edwin Evans ) . |
| 18 | It was first made by Dauberval when staging La Fille Mal Gardée . |
| 19 | Docklands historians say it was first shipped out to thirsty expats in the Far East from Hodgson 's brewery in Bow in 1734 . |
| 20 | ‘ I was so young when it was first diagnosed that I ca n't really remember a time without it . |
| 21 | The ministry said yesterday that it was first warned by the Dutch on November 1 that 550 tonnes of Indian rice bran contaminated with lead sulphate had come via Rotterdam to Teignmouth in Devon . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | is the traditional cheese of Wales , although it was first made as recently as the 1880s . |
| 24 | In 1945 , Lucian Oldershaw , with E. C. Bentley a member of the History Eighth at St Paul 's when it was first created in July 1893 , recalled Thomas at school and during his early days at Oxford : |
| 25 | So long as , in the end , our grasp of them rests upon reason , we have knowledge , no matter how it was first suggested . |
| 26 | It was first systematized by Gratian of Bologna in the twelfth century . |
| 27 | The principles of TL dating are here outlined for pottery , for which it was first developed ; its extension to other materials is discussed later . |
| 28 | But it remains perfectly understandable , both in terms of the development of the larger narrative , and with regard to the situation of the generation for whom it was first compiled . |
| 29 | It was first improved into Britain two years ago , and the first Norwegian Red crosses were born here last year . |
| 30 | It was from such lofty horizons that it was first introduced in 1839 and it has been in and out of gardens ever since . |