Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] it was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well we can do that we had some lovely spring , that day we went up to the park it was what spring like were n't it ? |
| 2 | It 's alright it was n't the vet it was your grandmother . |
| 3 | ‘ I told the lock-keeper it was yours . |
| 4 | During all the long years of the war it was she who kept up the morale of all of us , especially my father , who went through many difficult times . |
| 5 | yeah there 's a muse th th there 's a museum at Carne in Normandy , I do n't know if anyone 's been there , we went there last year , and it , it 's a new museum , a memorial museum and that 's the most moving place I 've ever been because it 's actually designed to show how awful war is and that it should n't happen again , it 's not a museum glorifying war , it 's a museum showing that , that it should n't happen , we should n't let it happen and there 's a erm there 's a great big case as you go in which has er a statement from every country that took part in the war , including Germany , and they 're all there , they 're all there together saying that you should n't you should n't let it happen and , and and I , I thought that was the sort o you know i i it was very impressive because i it was n't glorifying anybody , it was n't saying we won the war , you lost the war it was it was a , a coming together to say that it should n't happen . |
| 6 | You dug up a spadeful of earth , but by the time you threw it on the rampart it was nothing but muddy water . |
| 7 | Yeah , I think that we need to look into more depth the issue of the County Farms estate , we agreed from the start it was something that could not be rushed , and we had to , the principle question that needed to be answered was that was there a viability for County Farms or role for County Farms in the nineteen nineties . |
| 8 | If anyone had the right to place the bolt it was him . |
| 9 | Cos Mrs the l what they called the laird it was his wife that was the president first . |
| 10 | You know , hobbling to the helicopter it was my |
| 11 | Erm n I as I say I could n't see her the bed it was it was a duvet and . |
| 12 | Well Sir Marquess across the road it was his first wife who died of a brain tumour and left him with three daughters , as we know . |
| 13 | In the summer it was her sailing day , but in the winter she spent it at home , cooking lunch , reading the papers , and generally lazing around . |
| 14 | And in the end it was he who turned up a bullet case ( 7.62 mm x 51 and therefore probably FAKINTIL ) . |
| 15 | He sat frozen in his seat by surprise , so blocked by his own consideration of duty , honour and the right way to behave to junior staff that in the end it was she who moved towards him , and touched his cheek . |
| 16 | Even now I half-suspected that she was just teasing , but in the end it was she who wriggled and twisted until we docked . |
| 17 | In the end it was his weakness for women and his love of the good life , particularly if sponsored by others , that proved fatal . |
| 18 | He thought you know it in the film it was him ! |
| 19 | I actually slept the entire night , because I thought goody , as soon as the divorce goes off , the sooner I 'm on my way out of the ar oh Rocky , Rocky your head was in the way it was your own silly fault |
| 20 | The couple Debbie and Tony o drove a blue Sierra and during the holiday it was their anniversary and Debbie 's birthday . |
| 21 | But if people do n't pack , as was the example of this job to this last week that took till erm the time it was it was four o'clock as I said when they finished . |
| 22 | ‘ And I thought it was those rats or my silly old brain and all the time it was you , young man . ’ |
| 23 | Sleep is the only cure for such turbulence , but it 's difficult to achieve , and Mick was hardly rested by the time it was his turn to lead in the dampness of the new morning . |
| 24 | made a Lady , or made I mean she was given that title , or actually I 'm dead against the fact it was her husband who was given the title , erm but to abstract away from that at the moment , somebody who 's been in public service all their lives and who 's devoted much of their life to the cause of the people , I mean I realize that an awful lot of people would think that Margaret Thatcher has n't done that , but let's say that , for the sake of the argument , that at least that 's what she intended for the time being |
| 25 | There was a gang of us , but I mean er if one of us got involved with a fight it was him and him . |
| 26 | But he would also say as a race it was nothing special : as a race it was ‘ out of all proportion to the fame and fortune ’ and needed ‘ no more ability than any other place ’ . |
| 27 | Every day it was something else . |
| 28 | ‘ I heard about this project in the late Seventies , and as a screenwriter it was my biggest dream . |
| 29 | and I think it was something like , say twenty pound , it was on the market , but I have a feeling it was something like thirty odd |
| 30 | As a host it was his duty to protect a female guest from such horrors . |