Example sentences of "[subord] it [was/were] [noun prp] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then time went along until it was September and September the third I was in church when the vicar announced that war has just been declared . |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose I 'd know , really , if it was Nick and me . |
| 3 | I disremember if it was October or November — it was October , 'cos it was before I came up here to join the matriculation class . ’ |
| 4 | Cos you could n't remember if it was March or April if you remember on that M O T certificate . |
| 5 | And I 've , I was , I do n't know if it was Michael or somebody else told me that they would n't insure it . |
| 6 | If it were March and we were still drawing the curtains at four . |
| 7 | This possibility may be less prominent if it were Jack and Jill who went to the cinema . |
| 8 | And although his eyes did n't seem to move the prickle of her skin sensed that he had n't missed a thing , from the mass of dark hair which was now half-up and half-down , to the crazy oranges-and-lemons earrings which she 'd clipped on because — well , just because it was Saturday and sunny , and because she had felt like it . |
| 9 | I ca n't see whether it was Dixie or the topcoat . |
| 10 | In this event Philip might well have approved of any plan which would make proper provision for his half-sister and her husband , whether it was Aquitaine or even something more . |
| 11 | Whether it was McColgan or Meyer , I was fully prepared so I could go faster than them in the closing stages . ’ |
| 12 | No because my I 've got erm a letter do n't know whether it was Friday or Saturday now , on from Tamgrams . |
| 13 | It is not known which lodge supplied the wine nor whether it was Napoleon or one of his party who ordered it . |
| 14 | Whether it was the throaty sound from the two man-servants or whether it was Reginald and Charles visibly choking , or Henry bowing his head , that caused the Colonel to bellow , ‘ If you ca n't behave yourself , Nessy , you will leave the table ! ’ |
| 15 | Quite probably you will have discovered that you put much more emphasis than we did on the immediate problem of trying to discover whether it was Chrissie or Fred who was telling the truth . |
| 16 | A total of 446 gave England plenty to do , and as before it was Lamb and Smith who did the bulk of the work . |
| 17 | Urban II himself paid homage to this point of view when he introduced Anselm to the Curia as ‘ one who is almost our equal , being as it were Pope and Patriarch of the alter orbis ' . |
| 18 | In essence then , at this philosophical level , Callinicos is marrying historical materialism and analytical philosophy , as it were Marx and Wittgenstein , in order to defeat a range of new and old Idealisms : principally that tradition , dismissive of Enlightenment rationalism , descending from Nietzsche via Heidegger to a bathetic end in Lyotard and Baudrillard . |
| 19 | For it was Sunday and there was no market . |