Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [coord] it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pushed out her right arm for protection but it was too late . |
| 2 | Ludovico called exuberantly for champagne but it was unobtainable , so he settled for a sweet fizzy wine instead . |
| 3 | specially for Easter and it was just exactly like you said . |
| 4 | I did his tape copy on the machine I was using for echo and it was switched to vari-speed , so the copy was played at almost half the speed and when he got it home and wanted to play it to his friends , it sounded rather strange . |
| 5 | Corazon Aquino , his successor , had refused to allow the body to be returned for burial and it was stored in Hawaii in an air-conditioned crypt . |
| 6 | Do you kn erm on the subject of I know last last time I came when I spoke to you that you were saying about you were saying about religion and it was and the fact that you erm go to church . |
| 7 | There was no difference between ourselves and Tom Jones , we were trotting out the same material night after night and it was so safe and predictable — two things I 'd always vowed Stiff Little Fingers would never be . |
| 8 | The ship left there shortly after midnight but it was six and a half hours before the seamen were discovered missing . |
| 9 | Er but she 's a member and we went there for lunch and it was the ideal place , you know , cos there were n't any , many people around and so we had quite a nice lunch and erm whilst we were there we then had a drink in er in the bar and erm her the , the secretary of the club , a lady , came to talk to Barbara and she mentioned that she 'd seen her on Blind Date you see , and so I got to know more by listening to them two speaking er and er that 's where I learnt about er that . |
| 10 | I just concentrated on making sure that it was comprehensive in terms of description and it was obvious from that description that certain choices and evaluations had been made . |
| 11 | However , the second notice was clearly given in breach of contract and it was indicated that in any subsequent wrongful dismissal action , damages might include a sum for the loss of the right to claim unfair dismissal to which the employee would have been entitled had the contract been honoured . |
| 12 | He grew up hating any form of bloodshed and it was he who founded Eton College , also King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 13 | ‘ Virgin did n't exactly have a bottomless pit of money but it was very different . |
| 14 | If Niki had sought to impress Prost with a victory at the very start of the season , the ploy did n't work : an improperly soldered battery cable put him out of action and it was Prost who impressed . |
| 15 | He had hoped there would be time for a quick cup of tea but it was n't to be . |
| 16 | She was offering them cups of tea and it was churlish to refuse . |
| 17 | He was forced to use the Sword Masters of Hoeth and other agents to seek out the devotees of the Cult of Pleasure and it was his unpleasant task to sign many death warrants . |
| 18 | This decision would have had the effect of making a software designer 's choice of storage medium crucial to the question of patentability but it was , fortunately , quickly overruled in the Court of Appeal where Lord Justice Nicholls said : It would equally be nonsense if a floppy disc [ sic ] containing a computer program was not patentable that a ROM characterised only by the instructions in that program should be patentable |
| 19 | There was a lot of blood but it was n't deep . |
| 20 | Because we 'd run out of cornflour and it was all not thick enough . |
| 21 | And I did n't want to have that 'cause I was looking for respect for me but also for my area of work and it was an absolutely deliberate act . |
| 22 | The choice of a name caused some division of opinion but it was agreed that the word ‘ youth ’ should be used , and as the Merseyside group had publicized ‘ youth hostels ’ , this stuck . |
| 23 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 24 | and er , they were coming up and went across to get a drink of lemonade and it was a bloody hot day , really , you know a midsummer day and erm , we went across to this kind of cafe place that 's opposite the station and I saw two men with rubber boots on |
| 25 | Paperwork was usually the least enjoyed part of farming and it was invariably left to wives . |
| 26 | A large proportion of our forces had to be ready to travel to distant theatres of war and it was uneconomic that they should be composed of National Servicemen , admirably though those carried out their duties … . |
| 27 | He helped form the midweek walkers ' club for retired friends who shared his love of walking and it was after one of their regular meetings that he died . |
| 28 | 1754 In 1750 a shilling sterling was levied for each quarter land for building a dyke about the Church yard of Killarow but it was not yet finished . |
| 29 | 1754 In 1750 a shilling sterling was levied for each quarter land for building a dyke about the Church yard of Killarow but it was not yet finished . |
| 30 | But the note that accompanied it made no mention of the choice of name and it was rather a cold note . |