Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb past] it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she smiled , stroking Melanie 's face again , so tenderly that Melanie closed her eyes and imagined it was her own mother caressing her or any mother caressing any child . |
| 2 | He wondered how the little man was coping , remembered the heads and concluded it was an acquaintance he would not wish to renew . |
| 3 | Max had himself wanked off the other day in a deserted section among some ruins and said it was very good . |
| 4 | EAST GERMANY 'S ruling politburo yesterday gave in to demands from independent opposition groups and said it was prepared to convene ‘ round table talks ’ about free elections and constitutional and electoral reform . |
| 5 | I gritted my teeth and decided it was n't such a one-sided deal after all . |
| 6 | But NP subsequently denied that it had cancelled the plans and said it was merely reviewing its options . |
| 7 | I 've also had the wiring checked numerous times and told it was fine . |
| 8 | Mary heard the calls and knew it was him but she waited . |
| 9 | The road twisted and turned , I got my bearings and realised it was north , probably in Petrolia itself . |
| 10 | She had visited us many times over a nu number of years and said it was our turn to visit her and we just laughed . |
| 11 | One widow wrote to thank the organisers and said it was the most moving service she had ever attended . |
| 12 | McLeish asked whereabouts and discovered it was three roads away from his own flat , so they complained enjoyably to each other about the local council . |
| 13 | He offered a hand of reconciliation to whites and said it was the ANC 's job , as the country 's biggest political force , to address national unity and nation building . |
| 14 | Of course everyone threw up their hands and said it was impossible . |
| 15 | He put up his hands and found it was a long strand of seaweed . |
| 16 | Mr De Lorenzo , under suspicion in a vote-rigging inquiry , confirmed his resignation to reporters and said it was ‘ irrevocable . ’ |
| 17 | Then I looked at the chassis and registration numbers and realised it was my old car . |
| 18 | First we thought something fell , but then 15 minutes later we came out and saw the crowds and police and realised it was a bomb . ’ |
| 19 | But instead , the company found itself unable to deliver the vehicles and claimed it was caught out by fluctuating exchange rates . |
| 20 | Timothy Gedge smiled at the men and said it was a nice day . |
| 21 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
| 22 | We just saw the last three letters and thought it was Colchester . ’ |
| 23 | He scorned Government claims that Mr Lamont had produced a package for jobs and said it was concerned with saving only one job — the Chancellor 's . |