Example sentences of "[verb] it [was/were] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you say it was a few railway men that got together and |
| 2 | And she believed it was the same with him . |
| 3 | Paul Stephens says it was no more than New Zealand 's third string side with the best 30 on tour ( though Turner and Cooper played against the World XV and Seymour and Rush were picked to tour South Africa ) . |
| 4 | ‘ And you knew Feargal , knew his name , knew he came from Slane , and assumed it was the same family . ’ |
| 5 | They 'd hardly believe it was the same man . ’ |
| 6 | It was impossible for Theodore to maintain the integrity of Wilfrid 's position while at the same time attempting to conserve the tradition which Eata , Eadhaed and Bosa represented , and in the years which followed it was the latter which was consolidated . |
| 7 | The plates flickered past , solemn and beautiful faces , sleeping soldiers , angels carrying flutes , and then a page fell open more easily because , slipped into it , she found a sheet of the villa 's notepaper on which was typed what she at first thought to be a shopping-list , but , as she began to read , discovered it was no such thing . |
| 8 | And when the businessman er realized he very generously sold it to the Trust er I believe the same I do n't know , I believe it was the same . |
| 9 | Police believe it was the same man . |
| 10 | The one I saw it was the same plain . |
| 11 | To see her at work during the day , with her hair pulled straight back and no makeup on , and to hear her ticking off her girls if they were slacking , you would n't dream it was the same girl who was out dancing with a different partner every night . |
| 12 | She had no way of knowing it was the same man who had interrogated Madeleine , then made her his mistress , any more than Madeleine could know that her friend was in the building being interrogated by him . |
| 13 | Wherever she went it was the same story . |
| 14 | Although they were looking at the clump of bushes from a different angle now , she knew it was the same clump they had seen from the gate . |
| 15 | " I knew it was the same for you ; that made it worse . |
| 16 | She had never known anything like the need that rent her , and she knew it was the same need that was racking Luke 's rigid body ; and still it escalated as they succumbed to a welter of tumultuous embraces , caresses and kisses , their staccato breathing punctuated by the sharp sounds of desire , their skin damp with perspiration . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew it was the same family , ’ he admitted . |
| 18 | Maud and Enid could tell it was the same one because its feet had not yet reappeared . |
| 19 | When Calder-Marshall and Malcolm Lowry first met it was the latter who felt flattered , but though Calder-Marshall was a generous friend , there is something poignant in Gordon Bowker 's comment in Malcolm Lowry Remembered that he has ‘ given a great deal of time to writing and speaking about him ’ . |
| 20 | As she looked at Millie rocking herself slightly like a little old woman getting a child to sleep , she though , If I were to tell her her mother has died , she would likely think it was the same way as her father had , whichever way that was , which was n't real dead . |
| 21 | He did n't think it was the same man . |
| 22 | You would n't think it was the same month would you ? |
| 23 | Sue just happened to mention that she had been to an orphanage in Brasov and Christine realised it was the same one that Christine Morey had written about . |
| 24 | It 's a , I mean it were the same at Christmas were n't it ? |
| 25 | ‘ He thinks it was a few minutes after six . ’ |
| 26 | In retrospect I think it was no more than the truth . |
| 27 | Well I think , I think it was a few of them involved , but apparently he went so you never know . |
| 28 | I think it was the same drive that led me to invent a series of very complicated games with another school friend , Roger Ferneyhough . |
| 29 | About this time last year I think it was the same week he came there were five judges that he picked every year for fifteen years . |
| 30 | A movement moves : it does not , and dares not , coalesce ; and to capitalise it was no more than a modest journalistic hyperbole and a useful summary of an undoubted shift in literary taste . |