Example sentences of "[conj] it [was/were] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But it was I mean I could hear it over the telly . |
| 32 | It was great , but it was I mean , I , I have to watch it because I 'd never seen it before |
| 33 | But it was I mean you have to admit erm and I 'm I 'll bring Mr Power in and let him speak for himself , but you have to admit that it from what we 've just heard , it started in nineteen seventy four , it 's been going on a long time . |
| 34 | nineteen forty but it was I envied those who could really speak . |
| 35 | She would put all her things on the floor because it was hers to do what she liked with . |
| 36 | You know , everybody would , would applaud any sexual activity because it was you know , adding new members to the human race . |
| 37 | Because I du n no because it was you know if you get off with someone on a Saturday night yeah ? |
| 38 | Well there there i they used to s you know invite everybody you said to you know everybody down on the picket line , well we were kids we used to go like re to be quite honest like we went because it were you know a bit of fun really . |
| 39 | Erm whether it was you know produced on a plantation ? |
| 40 | I said no Julie I said I have n't I said I would tell you cos I said I , she said to me do ring me and let me know , and I said I said I would and I will , I said no cos I did n't tell her when it were you see , so I said it 's this week coming and I 'll ring you this on Monday , so she said oh it was only , cos she said I saw Deb and Deb wondered , I thought yeah I bet she did she would |
| 41 | When it was he proceeded to colour it , either from memory , or with colour notes made under the same conditions as the original drawing , paying attention most of all to tonal values and local colour . |
| 42 | As it was we finished a stroke behind Dai Rees and lied for second with Kel Nagle . |
| 43 | As it was she stored his words to mull over in her room . |
| 44 | If she had been an ordinary teacher , trying to teach an ordinary sedentary subject like history or Latin , she would have been mercilessly flouted and mocked , but as it was she managed to get by . |
| 45 | She wished desperately that Ellen were in London that she might send Lizzie to judge how Oreste fared and what he understood , but as it was she had no means of knowing . |
| 46 | This was only partly true : but for her pock-marked skin she would have been much sought after : as it was she had been pursued more through calculation than desire . |
| 47 | As it was he had to be satisfied with a rise of 48 per cent to £514,558 , well below the highest-paid public company boss , Lord Hanson , who received £1.5million for his efforts . |
| 48 | As it was he had obviously grown tired of the regular struggles and gone off to find someone who gave in more readily . |
| 49 | As it was he had to find his own way out of an embrace involving him far more seriously than he intended . |
| 50 | As it was he tried to think of other things . |
| 51 | Without employing his own servants as agents and deputies Sadler obviously could not have managed his group of offices ; as it was he complained of seldom going to bed before midnight and generally waking by 4. a.m . |
| 52 | In the eighteenth century he would have become prime minister before he was thirty ; as it was he appeared honourably ineligible for the struggle of life . |
| 53 | Remembering that he had sent Catherine Crane to see Angela Morgan 's employers , he decided to find out how she had got on ; late as it was he did not think she would have gone off duty without reporting to him . |
| 54 | But as it was I felt it would have been presumptive . |
| 55 | As it was I got Doreen because Duncan was half way down the garden path ( all three feet of it ) on his way to the pub . |
| 56 | I had rather a dread of this post 's conveyance for it was only a spring cart , and I thought I felt myself being bumped , but as it was I enjoyed this nine miles in the post gig better than all the drives I had had . |
| 57 | As it was I said nothing . |
| 58 | Maybe if chlorophyll tablets bad been available in those days they might have helped but as it was I had tried everything . |
| 59 | As it was I think we upset a lot of our own supporters , and others in the country , without any real gain in the long run . |
| 60 | And , therefore , the sit situation where you find yourself today erm is not the same as it was I think in nineteen eighty . |