Example sentences of "it [conj] [pron] [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then says Mr. Daniel , ‘ Yes , but that is a future consideration and a future consideration , if nothing were done under it or nothing was proved to be done , would fail . ’ |
| 2 | If you get paid to do it or you were doing it for money I could appreciate it . |
| 3 | She said Granny would n't need it where she was going . ’ |
| 4 | And if she ever used it where it was overheard , the eavesdropper would consider the activity admirable ; for George Hudson was still the Railway King . |
| 5 | Er but we can write these with some f flexibility , and erm there is a deferred income version , where you can run it so you were say you did n't need income five years , you can run it for five years , then la then leave it erm and just take the annuity income as er as , as er regular income . |
| 6 | But I mean it was it that we were taken to first , and I mean thee was a lot of people on it and I mean it had obviously saved a lot of lives . |
| 7 | While we were among them , they would see to it that we were cherished . |
| 8 | Oh yes , ooh she was n't going to have it that we were going to see it , cos she has n't seen that particular one . |
| 9 | Hence , I take it that they were laying down principles in relation to joint and several debtors generally . |
| 10 | Rumour later had it that they were sunk en route . |
| 11 | Was it that she was getting old and past bothering with children ? |
| 12 | And since Ned would also be empowered to put up her rent and see to it that she was refused employment at the Beehive or the Dog and Gun , just where she would go had become a constant , gnawing ache never leaving the back of her mind . |
| 13 | Oh they left it that I was to give to Arthur and June . |
| 14 | and I got calcium chloride and water formed what was it that I was dripping onto ? |
| 15 | They could of looked on it that I was depriving somebody . |
| 16 | A great deal of nonsense has been spoken and written in recent years concerning his lordship and the prominent role he came to play in great affairs , and some utterly ignorant reports have had it that he was motivated by egotism or else arrogance . |
| 17 | And that morning 's takings had trebled and brought her new custom , for he had always seen to it that he was shod well and had good small clothes and shirts . |
| 18 | I told her ladyship and she saw to it that he was got rid of . |
| 19 | And that 's a farm was it that you were born in ? |
| 20 | ‘ What was it that you were remembering , Jannie ? ’ he asked . |
| 21 | At least , One would expect it if one was imbued with that particular philosophy . |
| 22 | We 're not doing it too strongly because of course it is quite difficult to , for an English ear perhaps to get attuned to it if one was doing it very very strong , so I 'm trying to do one that is n't er too alien to an English ear . |
| 23 | Whilst the earliest phase lasted only a few minutes after the training trial , and the intermediate ones declined within the hour , long-term memory seemed to build up slowly over the first hour after training , and protein synthesis inhibitors would no longer disrupt it if they were administered more than an hour after the training ( Figure 10.1 ) |
| 24 | It seems that we now have serial correlation in our model as a result of including the dummy right , now we 've got to test statistic , I mean always look at the F version of the test , right , er our F statistic of three point seven six is significantly different from zero , right , that leaves seven percent level , so a five percent test we probably accept that we did n't have any serial correlations and we just got there by the skin of our teeth on that particular test erm yes , you could probably get away with this one , functional forms fine , no problem there , hetero skilasticity right , are F statistic three point nine but significantly different from zero that 's six percent level , right , so again we just scrape it if we were looking at the ninety five percent confidence it wants to be five percent if you are using as five percent significance level . |
| 25 | If he does , I would prefer it if he were to emigrate . " |
| 26 | Many of think he would do it if he was given half a chance . |
| 27 | I think the first two are pretty much certain and i 've a feeling he would accept it if he was given the nod . |
| 28 | She could n't bear it if he was going to be coldly hostile again . |
| 29 | She would not have done it if it was to last for more than four days . |
| 30 | I think erm we could have a much healthier aspect to it if it was taught to u in a healthier way , I mean |