Example sentences of "[adv] it was [pron] [verb] " 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 | Perhaps it was something to do with our difference of opinion on the tee , I do n't know — but all through this championship Lee had never asked me to read a putt for him . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was something to do with his not having a son and now having gained one ; or perhaps he was pleased about his victory over the women . |
| 4 | So it was we 'd got distractions and then we suddenly chip in with all these choruses er no ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yeah , even connected it on the end here , the , the station and set this display decoder up and it even did it there so it was nothing to do with the live lamp wire , the way they routed it we thought that perhaps rerouted it to the cable or something like that |
| 7 | And er process was er match-guising so it was You know they were list They listened to three different people well th th they thought it was three people it was one person doing three ac the three accents er dialects sorry . |
| 8 | Usually it was someone congratulating us on having won a free dancing lesson or test drive ; but there were quite a few grumpy wrong numbers , which made us feel at home . |
| 9 | United Airlines and American Airlines I 've been told are n't really all that good to fly with , mate of ours went up to the airport to pick his parents up , they just got back from a holiday in and er they flew and a , on a seven hour journey , where ever it was they come from , they did n't have any food , no food , nothing , what they done is they , they , they 'd taken a container off , but they had n't put a new one on . |
| 10 | Well , certainly , who ever it was I spoke to today said their files show they was , was still dealing with it . |
| 11 | I forget what we had been talking and arguing about , but probably it was something connected with our continuing confusions about poetry and sex . |
| 12 | Well in a sense I can understand it , probably it was you know , the big , the big re-election thing , and many other bands , they , they , could n't have really get yeah , . |
| 13 | I know now it was our believing that we were fulfilling some end , serving some plan — that all would come out well in the end , because there was some great plan over all . |
| 14 | ‘ She knew damn well it was something to do with you . |
| 15 | Well it was something to do with the little boy . |
| 16 | Well , well it was his did n't she ? |
| 17 | Well it was his doing so I suppose |
| 18 | Well that was when we was before fifty five sixty year ago it was you see . |
| 19 | Presumably it was something to do with the way that Jenner approached his work . |
| 20 | waste recycling er er , I ca n't remember where I read , I read it through somewhere it was I felt quite good . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | That 's how it was It had fallen apart with er without . |
| 24 | Sometimes it was ours have been |
| 25 | Maybe it was something to do with a divorce from reality . |
| 26 | If Steen had been murdered ( and he had no cause to believe that that was the case ) , then it was something to do with the Sweets and the blackmailing business . |
| 27 | Then it was I thought to look about on the ground near me , recalling that strange visit — had it happened ? — in the night . |
| 28 | When I was there it was You agree do n't you ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |