Example sentences of "[vb base] [subord] it was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas before I used to say let's do this or that and worry if it was n't done , now I 've decided that I 'm really not going to worry about the garden any more . |
| 2 | Like , you could n't have pianos or sax because it was n't hardcore . ’ |
| 3 | He stopped neither to rest or eat until it was almost dark . |
| 4 | Or perhaps she would paint a picture of Oliver and it would be hung in the National Gallery and everyone would come and look at it and weep because it was so beautiful . |
| 5 | Yea , drinking 's always got me into trouble in the past , I mean now I 've thought about it , I 've thought what a stupid idiot I 'd be , so you know if it was n't for the course , then I probably would have gone and done it again , you know , without a second thought . |
| 6 | I have n't you know cos it was n't very nice when he brought it . |
| 7 | I suppose if it was there all by itself it must have been a ram . ’ |
| 8 | ( 1 ) It can move itself and has biological needs ( not just for food and warmth and the like , but the need to use its faculties — Functionlust as it was once called by a German psychologist ) . |
| 9 | About a year later and some six months before Heath closed down the government and parliament of Northern Ireland , army technicians began systematic telephone tapping or landline intercept as it was euphemistically termed . |
| 10 | Eventually Frankie and I were called in by Mum and told to get a wash and change as it was nearly time to go . |
| 11 | And er it was a mixed school of course some of ours er different ages you see because it was just one big classroom . |