Example sentences of "[vb base] it [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say it was on the cards because throughout the match the Scousers used the tactic of playing the long ball towards Rush and it was then quite simply a one-on-one race with either Fairclough or Newsome . |
| 2 | And then when I came to What Do You Want it was like an whole new world had opened up to me . |
| 3 | My UPS solved the database crash problems and I consider it was worth every penny . |
| 4 | Erm and there was just , and there was very little by the way of of grass even and er you know it was towards the end of the life of the flats really , that the play scheme got going . |
| 5 | And after a while you know it was without the women we would 've been you know nothing . |
| 6 | Erm I I know it was in the context of a a question you posed to him that er if he had in fact er accepted the County Council 's housing figures er that would have been an appropriate hundred and twenty two hectares would have been appropriate er on the employment side . |
| 7 | Well whatever it was , I know it was in the forties . |
| 8 | I know it was in the paper |
| 9 | I trekked the length and breadth of Charing Cross Road and the surrounding area when I bought mine in ‘ 68 , and I still remember it was in a different league to everything else , although it crept into the £50 plus bracket , rather than the £40 I had saved . |
| 10 | ‘ I suppose it was about the overdue ship . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , I suppose it was on the floor somewhere , in a pub where I was tryin' to sell some violets to save meself from real starvation . |
| 12 | I suppose it was in a way because I knew she did n't really love me . |
| 13 | ‘ Although I suppose it was against the English , ’ she observed with a mournful little sigh . |
| 14 | It 's not a lounge area and that I suppose it was behind the shop area . |
| 15 | I believe it was towards the end of the financial year , the figures probably would have been updated at er the end of nineteen eighty six |
| 16 | I reckon it were about the time of the Great War . |
| 17 | I guess it was like the primitive interrogation techniques both malais and FAKINTIL were not above resorting to : you could see the stratagem but that did n't stop it from being effective . |
| 18 | You feel it was worth the effort going do you Dinda ? |
| 19 | I say I worked , but I mean it was for a charity which ran one of these centres where they try and help the socially deprived . |
| 20 | I mean it was like a bloody interview on that phone |
| 21 | I mean it was in a sense beautiful , but really |
| 22 | She got injured in her back somewhere , but er it was national news , I mean it was in The Mirror and all the papers and it became a , for a day or two it was er it was in everywhere , and the theory is that er it was this erm very very dry summer and a very very wet autumn and a bit of dry rot in the timbers somewhere , but it was it was another |
| 23 | Yes , fish it was for the mental energy to face our new situation . |
| 24 | But definitely they should er explore this County and not erm wanted to come into I think it was into the Estuary to drill for gold and minerals an all that , and the planning of the National Park said , No , and the blinking hole is only about four inches wide . |
| 25 | Well , I think it was about a fortnight |
| 26 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 27 | I think it was since the salmonella scare some time ago . |
| 28 | No I think it was down the side I think he said . |
| 29 | Actually , I think it was at the opening of Pork because Andy came to the opening and David had that song on the ‘ Hunky Dory ’ album called ‘ Andy Warhol ’ , so we made sure they met . ’ |
| 30 | Oh that would have been I think it was between the wars , I think between the time of the world wars . |