Example sentences of "[conj] it was [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ David obviously wrote the songs and everything but I felt a lot of responsibility came on to me at that time , although it was nothing like David 's , ’ he says . |
| 2 | Although it was itself of a rather fetid awfulness , The Damned prefigured almost all of the conventions of the nostalgia movie : the fusing of public history with a private , intimate drama ; the ubiquity of ‘ decadence ’ and deviant sexuality ; the scratchy suggestiveness of ‘ cheap ’ popular music on the soundtrack ; the transformation of the past into a glittering art deco exhibition of costume and design ; and the constant reference to movie mythology . |
| 3 | It was decorated with purple tulips , and it was hardly ever used , for Mrs Maugham was not unaware that it was something of an anachronism . |
| 4 | I do not mean , of course , that it was something that can not be explained yet , but rather that it was something of which no explanation can conceivably be found . |
| 5 | He explained that it was something like new party policy on homelessness and would involve a march into town piling up lots of boxes and collecting signatures on a Valentine type partition to give to Hugh . |
| 6 | He retorted that it was nothing to the risk he had taken . |
| 7 | ‘ There is no doubt that it was you in charge when the hoax call was made . |
| 8 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 9 | She had n't given much thought to what the house that her father had left would be like , but she had not gained the impression that it was anything like this . |
| 10 | All through Saturday , she worked on it , telling herself that it was none of her business . |
| 11 | She continued to look extremely doubtful even when Peregrine told the bystanders that it was none of our damn business what happened in Eastern Europe . |
| 12 | They simply , and it seems correctly , decided that it was none of their business . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , he also clearly implied that it was none of the legate 's business . |
| 14 | She could have suggested that it was none of his business , or have made an excuse that she 'd forgotten to put it on , but , wits scattered , with her usual honesty she blurted out the exact truth . |
| 15 | The CAT scan apparently showed no damage to the brain , so it was something of a shock to the doctors as well as to Dawn 's parents when she finally came round from the coma after about a week with a left hemiplegia . |
| 16 | In fact I had never even imagined life without fat so it was something of a challenge to create a very low fat diet for myself , first of all , and then for my slimmers — a diet which at the same time as being very low in fat included all the necessary nutrients . |
| 17 | Terry and Middleton have become one of the country 's most reliable opening partnerships , so it was something of a surprise when , in the 19th over , Middleton was leg-before to Hooper for 27 with 68 on the board . |
| 18 | He talked , it was true , with a little too much self-confidence , and she could tell that his views were not entirely original , but she did not really care , because they were interesting , and it was something to be interested . |
| 19 | His curtain could be seen from the square and it was something worth looking at . |
| 20 | Their friendship was intimate but Platonic , and it was one in which Mary Trevelyan acted both as a confidante and social support . |
| 21 | Angels posed obligingly in front of my easel and it was nothing for Christ to stand on the river in front of this Mill . |
| 22 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 23 | Certainly not — as a matter of fact , I holidayed not half an hour 's drive from your house , at the bottom of Loch Ness , and it was nothing like the Bahamas — we journalists ca n't afford to go to such places . |
| 24 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
| 25 | There was little conversation : nothing had happened in Dent that day worth the telling , and it was none of their business to ask where I had come from and where I was going . |
| 26 | But that was not the issue now and it was none of Vass 's business . |
| 27 | She was the sort that keeps coming , that never knows when they 're licked … the mad cockerel I once hit with my toy cricket bat — it was an accident , of course it was , but I had to keep hitting it and hitting it until it was nothing but a bloody pulp on splintered sticks . |
| 28 | if it was one on one , we would n't have anything to do , but it is the fact that they have got good technology , good materials and they are that much more than us , their troops are n't as well trained as ours |
| 29 | Hilary , coming out of his reverie , noticed his discomfiture , and smiled as if it was something of not the slightest importance : ‘ The suggestion has been made , ’ he said . |
| 30 | None of these friends knew much about funerals , but if it was something for Conor then , yes , they 'd like to come along . |