Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT WERE N'T LIKE THAT IN MY DAY |
| 2 | This individual just about won , in fact it was over by ten past two . |
| 3 | The Dornier made good time and it was shortly after two in the morning when Devlin jumped at five thousand feet . |
| 4 | It was n't at all like staying in hospital . |
| 5 | It was n't at all like her . |
| 6 | It was n't at all like Julius to give in so easily . |
| 7 | I think I better come in , it was n't at all like that when I was there . |
| 8 | In the locker room the steel grilles are pasted with letters that say , Thanks for your kindness for making a tough time much easier to bear , and , If it was n't for all of you there at the hospital I do n't know how we would have survived . |
| 9 | It was n't until 1880 with the passing of the Ground Game Act , giving tenant farmers protection against their landlords and giving them the right to kill hares and rabbits , that the laws were even modestly relaxed . |
| 10 | But it was n't like that for us . |
| 11 | It was n't like that for us , ’ or ‘ I do n't think this 'll work , ’ or ‘ I tried this last Tuesday week , ’ or something like that . |
| 12 | It was n't like that with the girls at the office , all heady scent and pouting , glossy lips . |
| 13 | ‘ But it was n't like that at all . |
| 14 | It was n't like that at all . |
| 15 | ‘ Wait a minute — it was n't like that at all , not like that . |
| 16 | It was n't like that at my hubby 's last Kirk , telling you the Young Mothers ' Meeting we had there was Really Radical . |
| 17 | It was a bit like having someone rub you with suntan cream , yet it was n't like that at all — how could it be in the dark ? |
| 18 | ‘ It was n't like that at all . |
| 19 | Erm , no , no , no it was n't like that at Harlow . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm making it sound as though the little hut was some sort of brothel , but it was n't like that at all . |
| 21 | ‘ It was n't like that at all , ’ she protested hotly . |
| 22 | ‘ No , ’ he replied , ‘ it was n't like that at all . |
| 23 | But it was n't like that at all . |
| 24 | ‘ No , Juliet , it was n't like that at all ! |
| 25 | ‘ It was n't like that at all ! ’ flared Leonora . |
| 26 | It was n't like that at all . |
| 27 | It was n't like that in London . |
| 28 | It was n't like that in the past , till the betraying chiefs invented title deeds and laws to suit themselves — at the cost of the people who were tricked , pillaged and deported . |
| 29 | It was n't like that in my young days . |
| 30 | It was n't like that in London , Edinburgh , Birmingham , Leeds , Leicester . |