Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was always crafty , he 'd hit me where it was covered , on the body and the legs , never on my face . |
| 2 | If I if it was sat trying to make an appointment with you for example er and I do n't know too much about the product we 're just getting |
| 3 | And when I When it was opened out for me going to Deerness , well that was a great event . |
| 4 | Exactly , my cat , it mine when it was good and yours when it was being horrible . |
| 5 | The vote against him was taken after the Secretary of the Society explained that ‘ we have constituted ourselves as it were the guardians of their [ women 's ] interests and in many cases … the custodians of their honour … |
| 6 | I though it was scab , and followed a spraying treatment for that , but it does n't seem to have solved the problem yet . |
| 7 | Towards the end of this review I put in a call to Ovation 's distributors , Korg UK , to check on some details , and after raving on about what a great guitar I though it was I was told that Korg did n't want it back . |
| 8 | Was I relieved — I though it was a fault in the console ! ’ |
| 9 | I though it was a windup until I read my email . |
| 10 | I have been told that on coming to the village to work in the cement factories and receiving his first weeks wages he asked if it was all his as it was more money than he had ever had in one week . |
| 11 | I never read any of them although it was not for want of trying . |
| 12 | it 's actually an Am it was it was an American book which cos it was Just Seventeen |
| 13 | It is a speech of effusive praise , which if it were true , would make her an exceptionally loving child . |
| 14 | ‘ Unpublished price sensitive information ’ is information which relates to specific matters relating to or of concern ( directly or indirectly ) to that company , that is to say it is not of a general nature relating to or of concern to that company and is not generally known to those persons who are accustomed or would be likely to deal in those securities but which if it were generally known to them would be likely to affect the price of those securities . |
| 15 | North had apparently asked himself whether it was worth it , to die in Vietnam : |
| 16 | He certainly does tend to separate new techniques and technologies out from the total matrix of forces playing on production and reproduction , and to exaggerate their as it were naked power ; and he does underestimate the capacity of the capitalist media industries to channel the use made of them to suit their own interests , nullifying radical potential . |
| 17 | Most likely the decision came from Wilson himself though it was also claimed by Joe Cotter . |
| 18 | ‘ Document A. That the man , who was belligerent on several occasions at first , threatening the social worker called in by the Visitor , said it was no business of theirs as it was a family matter and that the girl 's father , his own brother , had given his consent , and what more could you want , and there was no higher authority than that , and no wonder there was so much crime on the streets if the government took away the father 's power , and why did n't they do something about crime on the streets instead of invading people 's homes . |
| 19 | A good example of this , if we wanted to er , have somebody as it were , to counterbalance er , the English philosopher Hobbes , would be the French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau , writing a little bit later , not much actually seventeen twelve to seventeen seventy eight erm , about a century later . |
| 20 | Free indirect style is a mode of narration which as it were fuses and interweaves the authorial narrator 's speech and the speech of the character . |
| 21 | I thought that he could have telephoned me if it were unobtainable but apparently he had n't bothered , and the sheet music was indeed not to be had . |
| 22 | Do n't ask me if it was a good game — it would be like asking a surgeon if it was a good operation . |
| 23 | He hacks forward after asking me if it was a 5-iron . |
| 24 | John , who fronts new band Undercover — at No. 17 with a re-make of pop classic Baker Street — says : ‘ She 'd have warned me if it was going to flop . ’ |
| 25 | I remember standing in the dinner queue and all these kids coming up to me , asking me if it was true , where I had got her from and what I was doing with her . |
| 26 | This car would be perfect for me if it was a hatchback , as I need that for work . ’ |
| 27 | So they asked me if it was possible the Josephs were bringing drugs in from France along with their haul of works of art . ’ |
| 28 | Do n't tell me if it was , I could n't bear it . |
| 29 | They asked me if it was my son , I said yes and I went out to tell Elizabeth . |
| 30 | The worst thing about it was that nobody would believe me until it was too late . |