Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [coord] [pers pn] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 2 | You , erm , I use buses and cars and I use a bike as well , er , er I think that , we used to have a car and I stopped using it , I used it , we had it when the kids were small and I found it really good for getting them around and it really was necessary to young mothers but their big now and I do n't have to chauffeur . |
| 3 | If we reconsider the earlier extract ( 5 ) as one participant wanting to know the meaning of an expression and the other offering a possible explanation , we can see that the explanation is offered in personal terms ( when we were young and we called it ‘ the taw ’ ) based on the speaker 's personal experience . |
| 4 | ‘ You 'll only waste it , ’ she said , and she was right and he knew it . |
| 5 | and I was upset and I thought it was just that but no , it was about two weeks before that I went down with it . |
| 6 | Discipline was rigid and we respected it , but resented it too , because of a particular juvenile arrogance that must have been founded on the knowledge that the world was changing a lot more than they realised , and it was for us that it was changing . |
| 7 | Even at that early stage in her career , Roddick knew she was different and she cultivated it . |
| 8 | Just now the autumnal coolth was tonic and he breathed it in like drinking draughts of fresh milk , then took dippersful of water from the butt at the side of the house and sluiced his head into activity . |
| 9 | It was risky and she knew it . |
| 10 | The spring rain soaked him but it was warm and he licked it as it trickled down his lip . |
| 11 | And there 's a time when my father lived at the , and I 'm going up the road this night and I hears this queer kind of grunting , and I could n't understand it of course it was dark and I hears it again . |
| 12 | For a moment Obispal was unwary and he knows it . |
| 13 | ‘ And I told him you said he was married and he says it is n't true . ’ |
| 14 | The newly-painted pole was slippery and he found it difficult to get a good grip . |
| 15 | It was rough but you know it , it w it was petty things that we was in trouble for , not , nothing sin I mean we would never think of mugging anybody or vandalizing things for the sake of vandalizing . |
| 16 | I was alone and I hated it . |
| 17 | But he was angry and I think it was a sort of gesture . ’ |
| 18 | The gesture was provocative and he knew it . |
| 19 | It was on the biggest floating pontoon that was available and they towed it out into the lagoon in Venice , stuck a couple of pirate flags on the top and it was like a floating city seething with roadies ! |
| 20 | You know , I catered for my father who was disabled and I mean it was nay till I was much older , oh he is disabled ! |
| 21 | The mask was hot and he loved it . |
| 22 | He was annoyed and she knew it . |
| 23 | If the toss was fair and he misses it , he is out and must sit on the floor in the middle . |
| 24 | Innocent was adamant that Lupold was unacceptable and he made it clear in June 1205 , at first secretly and later publicly , that Philip would have to drop Lupold as negotiator . |
| 25 | Columbus knew that the world was round but he thought it was much smaller than it really is . |
| 26 | She took it gratefully and sipped a small amount , but it was stale and she handed it back . |
| 27 | ‘ Because it was cheap and I liked it , ’ said Ellen . |
| 28 | ‘ I went to Paris and I saw with my own eyes — either that or I was young and I dreamt it all — workers and students and young people together , fighting , helping each other-socialism was on the streets . ’ |
| 29 | It was defective and he took it for repair to the accused , who sold it . |
| 30 | So he converted his barn which was huge and he used it for recitals , put a lovely grand piano in it . |