Example sentences of "[pers pn] [coord] it [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was me and it was both frightening and exciting , like driving very fast round a precipitous bend with someone now and again taking my hands off the wheel and forcing me to trust . |
| 2 | It was never a problem for me and it was never a problem for my family . |
| 3 | when he 's down he ca n't move , I said yes he can , she said he ca n't , and three times she told them and it were n't until the third day , they apologise , they said I 'm awfully sorry we did n't realise just how |
| 4 | I , well I just did n't realize it was anything like that , I had I 've had four children and the last one there was thirteen years difference between them and it was really , really terrible ! |
| 5 | Some of it got into the car and irritated my eyes : I had to take a hand off the steering wheel to rub them and it was almost wrenched out of my grasp as the car lurched into a hole in the road . |
| 6 | And the other reason they do n't want to turn up is primarily because they do know that we have compulsory purchase powers and the planning — the paper put forward by the Chief Planning Officer today was a vindication of wage for a good many years , a good many months rather , that we do have compulsory purchase powers and we are able to use them and it was specifically asked at the Panel today , by both Monty Finnist and Sir Monty Finnist and Tony Christopher , why does n't the City Council market this site and use its compulsory purchase powers and that 's one question to address tomorrow as a politician who could make that decision . |
| 7 | You had to have what they gave you and it was pretty revolting from what I remember . |
| 8 | That 's absolute crap , he was so he was as sober as the day comes I can tell you and it was just a joke . |
| 9 | I told him the letter had been posted on to you and it was merely a matter of time before you got it . ’ |
| 10 | And then And never made a mistake of course , he tried to teach me but it was just a waste of time . |
| 11 | I could not see exactly what was in them but it was more than curiosity . |
| 12 | They knew nothing about the drive-away alternative , neither did we but it was n't hard to find out . |
| 13 | His reputation went before him and it was not auspicious . |
| 14 | After his marriage it was rumoured he had been involved in a gambling scandal , but his father-in-law stood by him and it was largely through him that de Burgh was created a marquess in the peerage of Ireland in 1825 and Baron Somerhill in the peerage of the United Kingdom in 1826 . |
| 15 | Only later , when she was in love with him and it was too late for common sense to qualify her feelings , did she learn more about him . |
| 16 | A number than went for him and it was then Mr Johnson brandished a kitchen knife . |
| 17 | The young boy was extremely embarrassed but soon swallowed his pride and climbed back into his canoe while we all fell about with laughter around him and it was then that I heard the bang . |
| 18 | I never met her and it was just talk in the shops , the corner shops were in those days were the gossip places , you know . |
| 19 | Bits yes well Georgina round the corner apparently she has the lot new , because the bank moved them and they paid her and it was over four hundred pounds . |
| 20 | I was the one that took him from her and it was n't a good scene . |
| 21 | He grinned down at her and it was only then that she realised just what she had said . |
| 22 | No we no she 'd got out the pool you see , she was I did n't recognize her , she said oh it looks like all the family 's here and I was only talking to Evelyn and , and I kept trying to place her and it was only when she said oh Rebecca was born a month after cos she 's died her hair a different colour , I did n't , just did n't recognize her at all . |
| 23 | Caro Hunt says that at the age of five he could beat her and it was then she realised he had a lot of promise . |
| 24 | There was no kind of animosity at all because we are still friends with him but it was just that his presence did n't do anything dramatic for the group creatively so we asked him to go . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Everyone tried to save him but it was too late , ’ his father Steven said from the family home in Chertsey , Surrey . |
| 26 | Paramedics came to the house in Thompson Street , Darlington , and struggled to revive her but it was too late . |
| 27 | It is uncertain how Cameron obtained an introduction to her but it was possibly through Clérisseau , who was known to her , or through Cameron 's book on the Roman baths . |
| 28 | I said I did n't know , and thought no more of it and it was n't until David returned and was performing at the Arts Lab on the Sunday night that I remembered and said to David , ‘ Oh , by the way , while you were away I had a message — your father is not very well ’ . |
| 29 | Buttons reached for it and it was n't until they were flying it that Artemis saw the four-foot drop the other side . |
| 30 | Now when you looked through it and it was n't an exam , twenty sixth or something was it ? |