Example sentences of "it [was/were] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was before you came to England , I suppose ? ’ |
| 2 | Well I do n't know what make it was but it came from the house , the furnishing company of Union Street , Plymouth I ca n't remember the shop . |
| 3 | where it was but I came across somewhere where there was a freephone and people at a g on a given sort of in a given week could all just go and use this freephone number , and ring up and they 'd hear a tape recording . |
| 4 | Sometimes we will be going upstairs to get something but , by the time we are there , we have forgotten what it was that we went for . |
| 5 | I chose residential care and so it was that I came to Le Court In September 1977 . |
| 6 | I tried to explain why it was that I went into the bushes , tried to make it sound reasonable . ’ |
| 7 | So it was that I lay in honeycombs of tiny compartments , stacked into loose piles and sheaves with onion-skin leaves of paper . |
| 8 | so it was n't the fact I was trying to lose too much speed , it was that I changed into first and did n't have |
| 9 | And thus it was that she came to be , that February evening , standing at the top of the tower block staircase , leaning against the wall and panting a little from her climb , pausing for a moment and thinking gloomy thoughts about life and death . |
| 10 | And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up . |
| 11 | Do n't you know what it was that you came for ? ’ |
| 12 | It was after I thought about that that I began moving my things to the cave . |
| 13 | there 's nothing wonderful about the cotton , but the cushions look absolutely superb because there were just thin lines of the , you can tell it was when you looked at it quite cheap ribbon but just arranged in a beautiful square and then a little bit of lace . |
| 14 | I bought them because they had I bought them oh I think it was when I went with Val to Kessler long weekend |
| 15 | Rising through two floors of the White Tower , was the chapel of St. John where the lady Alianor and Joan attended Mass each morning : it was as they returned on the second morning that Joan voiced her enquiry . |
| 16 | It was as they stepped from the dodgem stand and Rachel turned from helping Belinda down the steep steps to the grass that she saw the little group of her family watching them . |
| 17 | It was as she finished with the remainder of yesterday 's mail that she glanced through the window in time to see Silas walking towards the stables . |
| 18 | It was as she came to the end of her enthusiastic little speech that she realised she was leaning halfway across his desk , so close that she could almost have counted his lashes and the tiny fine lines around the corners of his mouth . |
| 19 | It was as he dashed along the drive that Mick Smith saw him . |
| 20 | And it was as he turned from her , that jewel box in his hand , that he suddenly knew who had taken those jewels , and his anger carried him away from Charity 's pain and her need . |
| 21 | It was as I got towards the end that I began to look more towards his future . |
| 22 | But it was as I got into my teenaged years I began to get bored with my walk on roles , sitting around for hours waiting to go on with make-up and costumes on was no fun any more , but I was far too young to do anything else but walk on say a few lines and walk off again . |
| 23 | And I thought it was because we seemed to be so much on the same wavelength . |
| 24 | If Protestants were superior , it was because they deserved to be . |
| 25 | Perhaps it was because she went to an early Mass to have breakfast ready for them when they returned ; but she did n't like lying in bed in the mornings anyway , and as he had said many times ( admittedly without great enthusiasm ) they could quite easily go to Mass together , and wait a lit–de longer for breakfast . |
| 26 | If , nevertheless , it is accurate , and Eadric was known as someone unwilling to oppose the Scandinavians , one can speculate that it was because he profited from the raising of tribute by acquiring the lands of defaulters . |
| 27 | If Marryat made this choice , it was because he wrote from within the experience of many years serving in the navy from 1806 , not continuously but when employment was available : more than one of his novels was written in the cabin of a ship under his command . |
| 28 | She wished he were not being so kind , so tender — even if it was because he hoped to cajole her into selling him her house . |
| 29 | This time the interruption came from a man in the front row of the audience , a tall man who was leaning forward , and George looked at him , feeling less hostility than the woman who had shouted at him earlier had created ; and then he realized it was because he spoke in an educated voice . |
| 30 | It was because I went to a disco that he tried to commit suicide . |