Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] i it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or , The Captain told me it was all right . |
| 2 | Quite apart from the violence , the girls told me it was difficult to be friendly with white girls . |
| 3 | The voice told me it was Cawthorne as much as if he 'd said ‘ spade bitch ’ . |
| 4 | The feller that did the wiring told me it was dangerous , especially with all the wood about . ’ |
| 5 | Said Harvey , at No. 22 with House Of Love : ‘ The doc told me it was just a food allergy . ’ |
| 6 | But once I got to the hospital and after the operation the doctor reassured me it was a straightforward and took forty-five minutes . |
| 7 | She had been spitting blood after a bad bout of coughing , but one look at the sputum told me it was clean blood . |