Example sentences of "[conj] it [was/were] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She had n't mentioned where it was but she had spoken of it with love . |
| 3 | I could have my own contributions returned or I could leave my pension where it was and draw it at the age of sixty-five . |
| 4 | They then spent the rest of the lesson — the first part had taken twenty minutes — in writing an account of why Rome was settled where it was and comparing it with the legends that they knew concerning Rome . |
| 5 | ‘ So I hailed a taxi outside the motel and just said British Committee and he knew immediately where it was and drove me straight there . ’ |
| 6 | She asked him to hold the screen just where it was and she went round the back of it , out of his sight . |
| 7 | When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel . |
| 8 | ‘ Put everything back where it was and start the engine , ’ she screamed . |
| 9 | Taking her courage in both hands , she left her bag where it was and turned the knob , pushing open the door into the kitchen which smelled so warm and inviting and blessedly familiar that a lump rose in her throat . |
| 10 | He found himself saying , ‘ In 1919 the Enabling Act was passed ’ and then could not remember what the Enabling Act was ; although it was and still in part is the Act which defines the nature of the establishment in England . |
| 11 | No one any longer recalls where this unusual dish had its origins ; indeed some people have been unkind enough to suggest that it was but recently invented by Mr Rory McGurk at the Dehydrated Rambler , on finding himself with too much ageing shepherd 's pie left on his hands . |
| 12 | Many would have claimed that it served none , that it was but the result of the Fall and of sin , and that it brought only harm and hurt to the world . |
| 13 | The plaintiff could not prove that the defendant knew it was a secret process either because of its nature or because he had been specifically told that it was and Vaisey J pointed out that if it were really secret it was surprising that the defendant 's employment had brought him into contact with it ; he had been to prison in the past . |
| 14 | You that you accepted that as as conclusive that it was and not . |
| 15 | Our society does seem to be far more violent that it was or , perhaps , we are more sensitive to aggression that we once were . |
| 16 | They 've improved the chimney recently and it 's very much better than it was but we still get the smells . |
| 17 | That unpleasant responsibility is less necessary than it was but the habit of mind , in society as much as with the professions , lingers on . |
| 18 | The management of the health service is now infinitely better than it was and the trend to devolving responsibility downwards has continued apace . |
| 19 | The belay will probably be a few feet lower than it was and nearer to the exit from the groove . |
| 20 | You might agree that it 's wasteful that it 's not the best way of channelling the resources but the fact is that the global amount available because of it is much greater than it was and that will be our baseline to start from if they decide to reorganise the money in a different way . |
| 21 | The ratio of bankers ' balances to deposit liabilities will be smaller than it was and if , as we have now said several times , the original ratio was a desired one , then banks will have to make further adjustments to their balance sheets to restore the ratio . |
| 22 | It did n't hurt , honestly , but it looked worse than it was and Lisabeth sort of saw red . ’ |
| 23 | Gesner had made it better than it was and had carried Ingrid through most of her numbers . |
| 24 | There was an assumption that inflation would be higher than it was and that was cut back to one point five percent , which I think that I would actually support was a sensible way forward . |
| 25 | Once it was or while you were building it and once it was up . |
| 26 | And it was but a tiny fraction of the Armageddon that was the front line … |
| 27 | And it was but there was a lot of madness and I was pretty frightened by a lot of things that were going on . |
| 28 | All the magic had died from it , and it was but a husk of itself ; for all my art , it could tell me only one thing — that no one could restore it to its place except a child not yet born , and born only for that task . |
| 29 | and it was and you could n't get near it because the heat of the fire was so strong and the smell of the of the smoke was overpow you literally could n't get near it and everyone had to come away . |
| 30 | Do you kn erm on the subject of I know last last time I came when I spoke to you that you were saying about you were saying about religion and it was and the fact that you erm go to church . |