Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [coord] it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angels posed obligingly in front of my easel and it was nothing for Christ to stand on the river in front of this Mill . |
| 2 | I walked to school with my mum and it was very cold and windy day . |
| 3 | However , a couple of days later I moved into my bungalow and it was quite a job . |
| 4 | For several years that basic idea of using a flight simulator kept coming up in my mind and it was in 1974 , after I had attended the meeting of the Accident Investigation Division of ICAO in Montreal , that I was discussing this same problem with Bernard Caiger of the Canadian National Research Council . |
| 5 | straight up in the lift to my bedroom and it was lovely you know , yeah in the hot , in the swimming pa pool |
| 6 | Look , I was looking for my pen and it was there all along . |
| 7 | ‘ You blame me for returning to England because of my job but it was n't just that and it was n't all my fault . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Two weeks before the European title fight I packed in my job and it was the best move I ever made . |
| 9 | seemed er , as I 've washed my head and it was n't getting out with |
| 10 | The snow settled on my tongue and it was so cold that I cried . |
| 11 | So I applied for my discharge and it was granted . |
| 12 | Cos I was sort of like listening to my music and it was , I think it was about half eight , nine o'clock cos I 'd only got some homework done for ne , to do for next Tuesday , so I thought I 'll leave it |
| 13 | ‘ I had , ’ said Rosalind , hurrying in , ‘ but I stopped at the post-office to get a stamp for my letter and it was closed and the wretched stamp-machine was empty . |
| 14 | Well I , I remember once going into er a British restaurant because it was my birthday and there was trifle on the menu and trifle was some sort of weird jelly thing that was thi instead of sponge it was stale bread and I think it was sort of stewed apple and mock cream but the fact that it it was my birthday and it was trifle you know I just sort of sat there like a queen but I think I 'm sure that it tasted quite revolting . |
| 15 | Like when I had to carry the garbage out — because of my bad back , the girls helped me with my duty and it was all right with the counsellors because of my back — it was n't special treatment . |
| 16 | And my hands were going like this and I looked at my clock and it was about six o'clock and it was still pitch black because it jump back into bed . |
| 17 | Well when my parents were Romeo and I have left my wealth , my family and it was . |
| 18 | I like to read about my time and it was only really in the style magazines that I could get in touch with people of my generation — black or white . |
| 19 | People passed by without a glance in her direction and it was as though she had suddenly become invisible . |
| 20 | When she first began to have coaching in horsemanship , she was obsessed with her progress and it was her main topic of conversation whenever Stephen joined them for dinner . |
| 21 | Clouds of smoke were indeed seen billowing up from her deck but it was later established that her cargo was being burnt to destroy the evidence . |
| 22 | Melanie nudged the detached torso with her foot but it was too heavy to shift . |
| 23 | She tried to invoke the memory of sudsy hot water to protect her against their smell but it was no help . |
| 24 | Will be passed on , but in this instance they all need to be shown how to work it , yes , mhm , so that concerned me a little bit , apparently because they were holding the mike right up to their mouth and it was distorting terribly what 's going on up there |
| 25 | He was taking an unholy delight in her discomfiture and it was high time that he was taken down a peg . |
| 26 | But they had made her feel restless with their talk and it was in that mood that she 'd let the landlord get close to her by the open landing window as he was bringing up some more beer . |
| 27 | It was the same when The Who smashed their gear at the end : everyone would turn up just to see them smash their gear and it was n't cool , because everybody knew they were going to do it . |
| 28 | His transactions with his fellows began to lose their artificiality and it was generally admitted that the Prince was losing his rough edges . |
| 29 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
| 30 | We had Su Friedrich , who 's a lesbian experimental film maker from New York here last year and a whole section of the documentary programme was devoted to her work and it was hugely successful , really stimulating and had a huge audience . ’ |