Example sentences of "[vb past] it [pron] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed a long way away but before we knew it we were paying the last of the deposits . |
| 2 | Now — you woke up with a sense of relief and surprise that you were still there , you got up , brushed your teeth , and before you knew it you were watching television . |
| 3 | it was very clever , I watched the first couple because people who like Harry Enfield 's comic characters switched on , just to see what he was like and before you knew it you were twenty minutes into a half hour programme and you stuck with it to the end . |
| 4 | She asked it you were saying it Lynne and Melanie as though it was a statement of a fact . |
| 5 | So the first time you did it you were pretty happy with it were n't you ? |
| 6 | Er yeah well all , all those things er and I thought the , the diagram was marvellous and you sort of to start with you , you were thinking ahead to doing this diagram and you could see that that 's what you were waiting to do and then once you did it you were up and running . |
| 7 | Aside from the Children 's Department , the Design Department , in the early weeks , were enraged by us ; not the Designers themselves , who were absolutely terrific to us , but the people who ran it who were often extremely unhelpful . |