Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we first got together it was so good between us . |
| 2 | Then reality started to move so fast that by the time he caught up it was all over and they were parked on the hard shoulder . |
| 3 | As I do not really wish to purchase a new knitting machine until I have a ‘ practise ’ run I was really pleased , that was until I found out it was no longer available . |
| 4 | He described how it was only after four years ' teaching that he had begun to question what he was doing on the grounds of both commonsense and increasing knowledge . |
| 5 | So when this came up it was obviously advantageous to have some new tracks for the anthology and so we approached him and asked if he would be interested . |
| 6 | When Perpetua came back it was really bad news . |
| 7 | I mean we when I when I came here it was virtually , virtually half , half the population of that . |
| 8 | We I I think we we discussed this briefly earlier in terms of erm if a proposal came forward it was perfectly within the remit of the applicant to make a planning application and to argue that circumstances had changed . |
| 9 | So they travelled home , about time they got home it were too late to be ringing . |
| 10 | ‘ We want to see a working countryside and we do n't want to see it fossilised so it 's almost like a theme park . ’ |
| 11 | Liza had given me a gin and tonic and when Granny turned up it was quite clear that she disapproved . |
| 12 | Er , it turned out it was n't a Rolls it was a Bentley , but I do n't know one car from |
| 13 | I realised later it was only a brotherly peck on the cheek , but for one black moment I was back in the past … |
| 14 | So it was when my life began so it is now that I am a man . |
| 15 | Finally , and this is a suggestion on my own , although actually I discovered afterwards it was also made by somebody else , erm but it does seem in many ways er erm an obvious interpretation , is this could be the background also to post-natal depression . |
| 16 | ‘ A week or so after I got back it was still there so I went to a doctor and said I might have picked up a parasite . |
| 17 | She walked off and made out it were n't her car . |
| 18 | When the landing craft pulled away it was only just over half full , because scarcely a tenth of the American and British citizens in the country wanted to take advantage of the offer . |
| 19 | So and it worked there it was very good . |
| 20 | ‘ But when I got here it was very cold . ’ |
| 21 | or a bit of mould in one of the sockets it used to click all the phones when anybody made a call and er , all , all sorts of things that , I would of thought ah there 's a faulty phone somewhere and it 's degenerating and er we went round and waste every single one out , every single one , went to this extension pressed line three , play it down and the phone rang , I thought right it 's not a phone , I changed the cabinet , I changed all the cards and the cards in one big one , I had one three |
| 22 | We knew what we were looking for and we knew if we looked long enough and hard enough we would find it , but there were times when we thought perhaps it is n't out there . |
| 23 | Well she did n't object , she just wanted to see how it went so it was n't a |
| 24 | Empty , it had a lingering ambience of warmth , and as she went inside it was even more noticeable now that there were people in it . |
| 25 | There are a hundred different ways of evaluating every piece of intelligence gathered so it is not hard to come to the wrong conclusions . |
| 26 | Oh yeah there was lots of foreigners , Americans and foreign people there all with maps out on the tables , trying to find their way round York , which I knew that Stuart knew so it was n't too bad for us , but there 's loads of people , you know thought how do we get to this from here and well it 's certainly a a an experience . |
| 27 | He escaped and managed to get to England while they were still alive , but nobody took his stories seriously and by the time they knew better it was too late . |
| 28 | She wore the crown while they sat in the sunshine , eating the cake , but by the time they went home it was already wilting a little . |
| 29 | The milk board insisted yesterday it was not aware of any problem until last Friday . |
| 30 | When the dinosaurs died out it was very sudden . |