Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [conj] it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er no cos I realized that I was that it was totally wrong so I just gave it a miss and went on to something else . |
| 2 | Rather than just muddle on as I was before it was highlighted and said well these need watching . |
| 3 | In his reply on 2 August [ KP 6 ] Eden put the second view , which was that it was essential to return Soviet prisoners to the Soviet Union , because otherwise the Soviet authorities might make difficulties over the large number of British and allied Prisoners of War in those parts of Europe which would be liberated by the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | It had been far easier to keep it tidy , she thought , in the days when she wore it pinned up ; the style she had taken to suited her better and made her look and feel years younger than she was but it was a terrible nuisance . |
| 5 | Those were my spoken replies to my mother , but my unspoken one was that it was up to me , and not to her , to decide when and to what extent I was either cold or hungry . |
| 6 | One was that it was horrible and she would always regret it if she made love to Tom only because she was drunk , the other that here was the opportunity to get it over , make a start , break the ice . |
| 7 | On my second outing with the boots I was trying to assess how watertight they were as it was raining heavily . |
| 8 | But the central irony about him is that it was not only the Norwegian people that rejected him : even the majority of Norwegian fascists did n't want him . |
| 9 | just how lonely had he been when it was n't late and he was n't drunk ? |
| 10 | In fact there were very few guide dogs at that time and erm I 've never felt that erm it 's , I mean maybe just my erm silliness really but I , I never wanted a dog lying about all day because once at the office I stayed put as it were until it was time to go home and I could have taken the dog I suppose during the lunch hour but I preferred that time to erm to reading |
| 11 | It 's like it was someone else . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's like it was a few years ago , when no one bothered too much about how you looked , and you did n't get any edginess or aggression . |
| 13 | But if it 's like it was with the others , it wo n't be easy . ’ |
| 14 | Well if it 's if it was very hot could it could it melt the plastic ? |
| 15 | Anonymity would be very very difficult if it 's if it was a video recording . |
| 16 | It 's because it was n't printed . |
| 17 | THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place . |
| 18 | It is as it was designed and made to be , for the artist has had leisure to add beauty to use . |
| 19 | They also had in mind that the platform could be removed , leaving the warehouse in substantially the same state as it was before it was installed . |
| 20 | It is tempting to see these works as belonging to a formidable and sustained effort to return the history of science to where it was before it was invaded by what Hall may see as sociologizing and ‘ hermeticizing ’ interlopers . |
| 21 | We did get a bit of u of er union pay then I I could n't tell you how much it was but it was n't very much , but er |
| 22 | Ah ah it was but it was sanctioned but we had to sign a contract with them . |
| 23 | Something to do with som something to do with a cotton mill in Paisley and it was s s s W I c just can nae recall what it was but it was a great big trial , there was a And er this this lawyer he had done quite well out of this case but it was a quite That must have been in er about nineteen twenty nineteen thirties about nineteen thirty two . |
| 24 | And erm so we set off and I ca n't remember which village it was but it was towards the Humber Estuary somewhere and it was what I call a cul-de-sac village . |
| 25 | An order was made under section 4(2) of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 postponing publication or report of certain details of the proceedings until after the conclusion of all 24 numbered indictments in a schedule , when it would be announced in open court by Judge McMullan that the order had expired ; the order stated that the purpose of making it was that it was adjudged to be necessary to avoid a substantive risk of prejudice to the administration of justice in other pending proceedings . |
| 26 | Ace had actually understood some time ago , but if there was one lesson that she would take away gladly from her time with the Doctor , it was that it was better to have people underestimate your abilities than overestimate them . |
| 27 | It was that it was unfair for the single-person household to pay the same as the household with two , three , four or five members . |
| 28 | In that little crucible of the theatre that story was demonstrated , that here were people of phenomenal talent , with an enormous amount to give , with the tremendous burning desire to express their feelings and their attitudes , and to the enhancement of other people 's lives , and how cruel it was that it was so few that got through . |
| 29 | I was mixing the two and injecting the two , which was pretty weird and I think the only reason I was mixing the coke in with it was 'cos it was cheaper at the time … . |
| 30 | No no i if it was if it was the likes of a say for instance , and I owned the book , it was my black book , and I ran up a hundred pounds on it . |