Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] it was " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had about thirty pictures to hang , and he had to measure it wall so it was spot on and he want , he wanted them all upstairs , he did , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight about twelve just downstairs in the hall way |
| 32 | And was the most modern station so it was obvious Street was on the way out . |
| 33 | Oh wait a minute perhaps it was on the A drive . |
| 34 | A minute later it was sitting upright , pulling more wires free . |
| 35 | On the , on the ration then it was . |
| 36 | ‘ Do n't feed it , ’ said Bernard , ‘ or it will never go home , ’ but she did , and the next night there it was again . |
| 37 | From the 70th minute onwards it was all action . |
| 38 | been applied for on our behalf so it was n't in fact from Social Services . |
| 39 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 40 | Because they , they they 'd got cellars in that cottage so that the cellars became the ar armoury and there was erm ammunition and everything in there and the back of there , which was the garden , we could use as , as parade area so it was it was very central and that 's where we finished up as headquarters for I 'll say D Company , for Bloxwich . |
| 41 | Our next meeting of our local group we refused to launch it on the day that we were doing the training , and if you 'd seen the launch yesterday it was absolutely bloody abysmal . |
| 42 | The archaeological evidence suggests that silver first came into use on a substantial scale during the third millennium B.C. It was not until metallurgy had been carried to a relatively advanced level of sophistication that the production of silver in any quantity became practicable . |
| 43 | A week later it was announced that she and Mark Phillips would separate . |
| 44 | A week later it was reported that a two-month-old economic and information blockade was being stepped up by Georgian militants , who were preventing convoys of emergency food supplies for Ossete communities arriving from the North Ossetia autonomous region [ for map see p. 37971 ] . |
| 45 | I 'm never quite sure really to be honest whether these individuals had an interview with Jesus or Jesus had an interview with them , because whether they thought that Jesus or whether they thought they were doing the , the probing and the questioning really it was Jesus who was in charge of the interview , you may of watched er certain chat shows on the , on the television or heard them on the radio and er depending who the person being interviewed is , very often it actually changes , and its the interviewer who really is being put through it , its the , its the person who 's being interviewed is in charge of the situation and that was the case here Jesus . |
| 46 | A week ago it was announced that the Government would not refer the deal to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 47 | Until one month ago it was possible to carry food into Gorazde from outside the line by a journey of more than thirty kilometres over the mountains . |
| 48 | At home people rallied round automatically ; it was taken for granted that if someone was in trouble then it was everyone else 's business to help . |
| 49 | It was felt that if such unity could be achieved in the poorly organized wool textile trade then it was even more likely that it might be achieved in better organized industries . |
| 50 | When I got back to the block there it was sitting on the table beside the empty bowls waiting for soup : an extra biscuit each , spread with liver paste , and half a quarter pound slab of chocolate . |
| 51 | Mind you it was paint then it was n't like it is today , it was sort of good lead paint was put on , and it did last . |
| 52 | From the New Kingdom onwards it was often protected with a large heart scarab , inscribed with chapter 30 of the Book of the Dead , exhorting it to act as true witness . |
| 53 | A Mattel Kriss-Kross mountain bike with stabilisers had caught his neck , when he looked up , and brought him to the ground yet it was the red and yellow tractor which applied the pressure that made his neck give way with an awful crack . |
| 54 | By the time I passed the old creche again it was getting darker and the insects were out . |
| 55 | I got a bag of potatoes , the ones , say I thought erm this morning , I 'd , I 'd open a tin of corned beef actually it was an accident I er forgot that , what , I was opening a tin of corned beef for , erm , I was gon na make a salad when I realized that I did n't like corned beef |
| 56 | Erm then she put , he had done a newsletter to his friends which is beautifully done er and had sent her one and so she put it through my door so it was quite interesting . |
| 57 | Oh yes anything that happened down the glen or way was heard that from the pack man so it was bound to be true . |
| 58 | And at that stage it was too late to go down the rope so it was just instinct more than anything else that we just jumped over the side from where we were then . |
| 59 | When I made that bed yesterday it was sitting in there . |
| 60 | Just down the road here it was just down in , in Howard Street . |