Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [was/were] [conj] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I knew was that it was buried somewhere in the middle of that sea of bricks ’ ( Orwell , 1939 ; 1962 edn , p. 117 ) . |
| 2 | So what I thought was that it was quite important to look at all these organisations that do seem to me really to have nothing to do with Oxford or Oxfordshire , and that we should be very careful . |
| 3 | Another criticism that I had was that it was far , far too elaborate and expensive programme , I thought it was a very cheap one . |
| 4 | All we asked was if it was possible for them to come through Halam and go down School Lane to pick to get an extra bus service at Halam . |
| 5 | One thing we discovered was that it is much faster for the team to close up as soon as the game starts and just hold that position as close to the next person as possible . |
| 6 | I think what he meant was that it was easier on the man . |