Example sentences of "[adv] it [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 2 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was for the best . |
| 4 | Oh wait a minute perhaps it was on the A drive . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was with a sense of relief that local authorities turned to a more manageable problem in the 1970s : a new approach to the control of residential areas . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was with the weather being so bad . |
| 7 | Perhaps it was in the hope of siphoning off this water that she put the beautiful white Ted-decorated house on the market as soon as it was finished . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was in the shadows under the overhang , propelled there by the lake swell ; but as he was trying to see , the overhead lights blinked once , and then again , and then they went out completely . |
| 9 | or was it in erm perhaps it was in the that you got . |
| 10 | It was like , you know like the piping you get in the tins , only it was in a silver packet and it was beautiful . |
| 11 | And so it was as the " candidate " that he spoke to them , his accent so neutral by now that he could have come from anywhere and everywhere , his green broadcloth jacket still shabby but worn as jauntily as if it had been lined with ermine , his lean , dark face handsome enough to please the women and hard enough to reassure the men . |
| 12 | So it was for the sake of her playing that she defected ? |
| 13 | So it was to the same mortuary as Jacob that the undertaker 's van took the two coffins . |
| 14 | So it was worth a try , at least . |
| 15 | The overall results at Thunder Bay again favoured Scotland and so it was with a comfortable lead that we left for our final destination . |
| 16 | So it was with a confident heart that your reporter negotiated the challenges of the M25 and M4 en route to Sonning for the 10.30am rendezvous with fellow support crew member , Liz Roberts and of course our fearless cyclists . |
| 17 | So it was with no plans for the future that Troy found himself at Greenhill fair , dangerously close to Weatherbury . |
| 18 | And so it was with the Notting Hill Gate Classic cinema around 1969 . |
| 19 | So it was with the other hostages . |
| 20 | So it was with the boy . |
| 21 | So it was from the early 1960s that his career became inextricably linked to its growing success . |
| 22 | But only the very superior pugilists made the ultimate escapes and so it was in every boxing slave 's interest to wring out his best efforts on every occasion . |
| 23 | It was , it was very nice except that Fred had a piece and left the last couple of slices in the tin on the side and the dog took a shine to it so it was in a tin and then in the dog . |
| 24 | And so it was in the light of this suspicion that I examined my friend 's body and my own . |
| 25 | So it was like a large tub ? |
| 26 | Oh so it was like a free party type |
| 27 | When I gradually began to eat less and less it was with no thought of slimming in the normally accepted sense of the term . |
| 28 | Nevertheless it was with a great sense of relief that she found the patio deserted save for a handful of hotel guests drinking beer and enjoying the late afternoon sunshine . |
| 29 | Nevertheless it was as an outwardly devoted wife that she took charge of Darnley 's transfer from Glasgow to Edinburgh , where she lodged him not in Holyrood , in case he infected the infant prince , but in a house belonging to the Canon of Holyrood . |
| 30 | Thus it was with a certain amount of relief that I acceded to our editor 's request to look at FloorPlan Plus , ( FP from hereon ) which promises to make this kind of thing much easier to sort out . |