Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some of the more elaborate biplanes it was not always easy to tell which way the loads were going and it was a stock joke at one time that the way to check the rigging of a certain aircraft was to put a canary between the wings ; if it got out something was wrong . |
| 2 | I have no idea how i it went around a up in the northern hemisphere , over Scandinavia , and Georgia 's in the south , so you 'd have think it 'd have been weak by the time it got down I 'm not a scientist , I have no idea what |
| 3 | Even the inner-city property sites of National Carriers did not look very tempting once it became clear there was an abundance of that kind of property on offer . |
| 4 | When the trial started on Monday , Mr Goldring said that following a number of mysterious incidents involving youngsters at the hospital , it became clear there was a criminal at large on Ward 4 , the children 's ward . |
| 5 | On closer inspection it became clear there were two sets of figures for the same period of time for the Grenfell Leather Trading Company . |
| 6 | Yeah because you go to be the eldest and then just at the time you should of gone on and become the youngest , it changed so you were the eldest all the time |
| 7 | But as it came closer there was no mistaking the great leafy bird which flew across the road and disappeared over the top of the hill . |
| 8 | book , she wrote a list out what she wanted , she used to hand it , I remember , I 'd forgotten all about this , let's just say we were at the Co-Op , she 'd hand it in at the counter so the , the groceries counter all , and she 'd written it all out , and when it came back it was , was five minutes , it was all together for you , there it was , it was built up on the counter , and each time the amount was written at the side so |
| 9 | If there was a generator it seemed likely there was hot water . |
| 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 | I suppose they 're very good and all in white and very ‘ county ’ like those awful people you got to ask me over and it turned out they were n't expecting me at all and there were four of them anyway . |
| 12 | When I got there , it turned out they were only leasing them , and I wanted the security of my own place . |
| 13 | He caught him and it turned out it was the assistant chief constable 's son . |
| 14 | Rella used to tell me stories , about places she 'd been , only sometimes I thought she meant herself and it turned out it was her mother she was talking about . |
| 15 | went away and came back and said oh Mr will see you in a minute and it turned out it was Sandra |
| 16 | As it turned out it was hard work one way and another because Montagu was not very prolific . |
| 17 | Er , it turned out it was n't a Rolls it was a Bentley , but I do n't know one car from |
| 18 | And erm I rang the lady it turned out it was mother that was on the phone at Manchester . |
| 19 | It turned out he was escaping a planned course of ECT because no one on his ward believed he might have a drink problem . |
| 20 | It turned out he was paying well over the odds . |
| 21 | It turned out he was being bombarded by similar queries and was none too sure of the answer . |
| 22 | It turned out he was storing paint among other things . |
| 23 | It turned out he was missing in action . |
| 24 | It turned out she was a writer too . |
| 25 | It turned out she was just as fed up as me , and we were not the only ones . |
| 26 | As it turned out she was Royston Marley 's girlfriend , who told me he had been taken away by the police and was being deported . |
| 27 | As it turned out she was in the bath when she heard the sounds of a car pulling up outside , swiftly followed by tapping on the door , and she jumped quickly from the water , pausing only to belt a towelling robe about her waist . |
| 28 | One amusing thing was that after all my worry about dress it turned out I was the overdressed character for everyday he wore a different combination of tee shirt and jeans while I wore my neat school uniform . |
| 29 | As it turned out I was right and it was just wonderful . |
| 30 | It turned out I was the one to take the inventory . |