Example sentences of "[subord] it was the [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You simply stood by the grill and never took your eyes off it until it was the colour you wanted . |
| 2 | Mm , ah I mean if it was the question I mean I 've got that material we 've got it , I mean if it was question of sending out , I mean I could do that . |
| 3 | If it was the Rajah they made their excuses and left , but any unauthorised Romeo would receive the unkindest cut of all . |
| 4 | So , decided Pascoe , if it was the window he was after , he was trying to get in . |
| 5 | She no longer even cared if it was the direction she wanted to go . |
| 6 | Even if it was the day we 'd be sort of coming back |
| 7 | If it was the battery it must have finally given up the ghost , because there was n't even the faintest wheeze or whisper from the starter motor . |
| 8 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 9 | Allen thought that if they were delayed long enough the Friar would return and then something might be done … unless it was the Friar who had betrayed them . |
| 10 | a very small ship , a frigate , and er the captain was at most Lieutenant Commander and the Princess Royal was doing the re-dedication and because it was the winter it was being done inside a big shed , that 's the background . |
| 11 | ‘ He was a great friend and , like Noel Coward , he wrote the kind of dialogue that was easy to remember because it was the kind you would like to write yourself but could n't , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Now I remember all that because it was the day I had a tooth knocked oui by a cricket ball . " |
| 13 | There was some concern expressed at the Director being singled out for criticism , but the Chief Officer considered that the criticism was necessary ‘ since it was the leadership which was stifling academic development and progress ’ . |
| 14 | One of these documents had informed her that she was to be attached to a Mr Victor Wilcox , Managing Director of J. Pringle & Sons , for one day a week during the remainder of the winter term , and she had chosen Wednesdays for this undertaking since it was the day she normally kept free from teaching . |
| 15 | This can lie done irrespective of whether it was the victim who brought the prosecution . |
| 16 | Whether it was the cash he was now heavy with or the challenge of out-running a Daimler that motivated him , he put his cab through its paces , proving it more mobile than its bulk would have suggested . |
| 17 | But I knew it before it was The Sun you see . |
| 18 | And th when it was the Lancastrian you know . |
| 19 | The superintendent 's personal life was alien territory to Dexter , one that she guarded fiercely , even though it was the sergeant who suffered the consequences when Blanche emerged from it wounded . |
| 20 | East Asians find the traditional ideals of the martial arts far more compatible with their outlook on life ( even though it was the Japanese who encouraged the development of judo as a sport and the Chinese who encouraged kung fu in the film industry ) . |
| 21 | It was held that they could , as it was the tape itself which was the evidence at the trial ( rather than . |
| 22 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 23 | For it was the Spirit who called Philip from his successful mission in Samaria to reach the Ethiopian eunuch with the gospel ( 8:29 and probably 26 ) , and led him on his further preaching tour as far as the very Hellenised city of Caesarea . |
| 24 | Its story is a classic one in the history of breeding and of famous breeders , for it was the Longhorn which was taken in hand by the great master breeder Robert Bakewell ( 1726–95 ) of Dishley , Leicestershire , to be fashioned most skilfully into his ideal commercial animal of the period . |