Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , he was talk we were talking about the rave and th what was wrong with it and he was saying basically it was they 'd got four DJs who were all techno and they were like brilliant ! |
| 2 | So it was we 'd got distractions and then we suddenly chip in with all these choruses er no ! |
| 3 | So it was that Edward Carrington became the driver , and so it was they turned up at Florence Drive to learn that Major Barrie of the Home Guard had gone with a lieutenant and two soldiers of the Eleventh Cameronians to escort the prisoner to Maryhill Barracks , on the other side of the city . |
| 4 | Well , certainly , who ever it was I spoke to today said their files show they was , was still dealing with it . |
| 5 | Well , well it was his did n't she ? |
| 6 | waste recycling er er , I ca n't remember where I read , I read it through somewhere it was I felt quite good . |
| 7 | You can both go to hell for all I care , ’ Sarella wondered how it was they 'd managed to get off the subject of the telephone call so quickly . |
| 8 | When I saw him dancing at the Saturday night disco at the Turtle Bay Hilton I thought I had discovered how it was he managed to survive those horrendous wipeouts . |
| 9 | That 's how it was It had fallen apart with er without . |
| 10 | Then it was I thought to look about on the ground near me , recalling that strange visit — had it happened ? — in the night . |
| 11 | When both parents are dead there is no one to talk with about those uncertain , early memories of people and places , or to confirm when it was we had measles , or where we stayed on holiday . |
| 12 | She lay propped up in pain and wondered when it was she had begun to loathe her body — she who had always been so proud of her figure and liked to pirouette in front of the glass after stepping from her clothes , admiring the slim smoothness of her thighs , the trim concavity of her belly , the neatness of her breasts , her skin with the sculptured texture of marble , her neck slender as the stem of a wineglass , and the bound-up hair in which fire lurked and leaped . |
| 13 | I keep squinting out the window of the 188 bus to recognize where it was we hid Patterson . |
| 14 | No one ever knew where it was she hoped to go . |
| 15 | And without even checking where it was he planned to take her . |
| 16 | Fortunately Eva and Dad were often out , as Eva accepted all the numerous invitations she and Dad received from directors , novelists , editorial assistants , proof-readers , poufs , and whoever else it was she met . |
| 17 | He would n't have got away with talking to servants that way in his mess or wherever it was he spent his working life . |
| 18 | He reached inside his jacket for his notebook but I said ‘ Sunil ’ before he could clear his shoulder-holster , or wherever it was he kept it . |
| 19 | And that means a reason right there on the spot , otherwise , once out of sight , he 'd simply have made off for wherever it was he wanted to be . |
| 20 | If — and it was a megalithic if , but I supposed we should consider every possible option now we were at it — if , in some weird way the Ghost and her voice really did exist , then as soon as she 'd got over her disappointment , she would have to admit she 'd been defeated fair and square , and would just have to honour the deal and flit off back to heaven or wherever it was she lived now . |