Example sentences of "[indef pn] it [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may have refused to take into account something it was required to take into account or conversely it may have based its decision on something it was not entitled to take into account and so on … " |
| 2 | Digital Equipment Corp now believes COSE really wants it to join , something it was n't quite sure about a few weeks ago . |
| 3 | She was always trying to turn it into something it was n't . |
| 4 | She had often wondered whether policemen did believe in something it was now so fashionable to doubt . |
| 5 | We used to pull his leg about this , asking him if he could remember which one it was tonight , and it goes without saving that the two girls were not even on nodding terms with each other . |
| 6 | Just trying to think which one it was anyway . |
| 7 | In this one it was n't quite so er , straightforward in that we , we had n't given you the actual activities to do . |
| 8 | He had been herded towards giving his agreement like a p'tar being driven to slaughter , Alexei thought , but even if the latter reason was the real one it was not an opportunity he could afford to pass up . |
| 9 | He reckons that if Tony was ever seen using one it was probably a right-handed guitar upside down . |
| 10 | I enjoyed it but that was not the right one it was just proper room where er you where you used to every night of the week . |
| 11 | Well she liked one of the coloured film stars , I do n't know which one it was though |
| 12 | Well last time I went to that one it was okay |
| 13 | On the second one it was more like , ‘ Okay , this is what we want to do , but if you do n't like it then we wo n't do it . ’ |
| 14 | Oh they had it well would just be anything it was just a long roll th great big roll , just like It just sort of wrapped in a grey eh a big waterproof kind of co covering , and he would have er shirts and and er things like that for men to buy , or er and sometimes er overall or a pinny , as we said , for mother and the like of that . |
| 15 | Nobody thought of anything it was just everybody coming in for their meals . |
| 16 | Sure , the rumours continued , but while Nirvana were n't actually doing anything it was n't hard to dismiss this as nothing more than the idle tittle-tattle that was the inevitable lot of a multi-million selling rock band . |
| 17 | They had faith , their faith was in themselves and in bailing out , and they could n't bail quick enough , and so their faith was not realizing anything it was n't producing the goods . |
| 18 | anybody needed doing anything it was always Ben were n't it ? |