Example sentences of "it was [conj] [pron] had [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he also introduce training schemes to put the United Kingdom back where it was before we had a Tory Government and to take it out of this recession ? |
| 2 | No exactly but I think prior to that , we did do what you 're suggesting , we did go round all the areas , Dick , myself and Malcolm and Chris , walked round all the areas , told told the people what needed tidying up to go in the it was before we had the racking up by the way so it was more messy |
| 3 | It was before I had the bairn , and I would n't go and they put us down the block for being cheeky . |
| 4 | Now it was that I had a chance of discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar off and imitated in fairly cold blood . |
| 5 | ‘ People say how sad it was that he had no relationships . |
| 6 | perhaps it was when we had the census paper |
| 7 | Because this is a hell of a lot damper today than what it was when I had the salt about you . |
| 8 | Well , the legislation in Britain , the first law which is the law from which our present wages councils for people like hairdressers came from erm was passed in nineteen oh nine , and it was because we had a reforming Liberal Government at the time . |
| 9 | Maybe it was just sheer bitterness , or maybe it was because she had no memories to match those of Marguerite and Alain . |
| 10 | Maybe it was because she had the advantage of the high ground and was looking down on me . |
| 11 | If he went on courting her in absentia it was because he had no choice . |
| 12 | He never bullied , but his colleagues sometimes said it was because he had no need to . |