Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | and pulled myself over the gutter , it were alright getting up , it were getting back in |
| 2 | it were rolled up in a wood set er cardboard cylinder and it fetched half a million did n't it ? |
| 3 | Sixty seven of the pleadings bundle which are the further and better particulars this year and you can see that er looking back to page sixty six , what the plaintiffs have been asked to state was to give particulars of the change in financial position which had been outlined to Mr on the telephone and er your Lordship will see first of all that in answer eighty little A , there is a reference to er a letter of the twenty seventh of February nineteen ninety two which was a letter from the plaintiff 's solicitors to the defendant 's solicitors which , this is been incorporating in the front or ought to be in the bible , erm I do n't think it has been but there are copies if I can hand your Lordship it was missed out in error I am sorry . |
| 4 | Not that it was slow down in the sense of Do n't go too fast physically . |
| 5 | 77 percent of it was cut off in 1922 and called Trans-Jordan ; the remaining section was partitioned by the United Nations in 1947 . |
| 6 | And then it was taken out and er dripped and cleaned , and then it was hung up in the kitchen to dry , and that was how the hams were done . |
| 7 | but erm er I think that er that picture I borrowed , I mean with her permission of course , erm and er I think it was hung up in the bathroom or somewhere , which was not the best place for a photograph to be really . |
| 8 | It was dug up in the sixteenth century and achieved fame almost immediately , entering the imperial collections , and being drawn by artists such as Apianus in 1534 . |
| 9 | It was dug up in a ploughed field in South Worcestershire … the precise location is being kept secret . |
| 10 | In some places the water was deep , in others it was silted up in little , narrow islands of spiky , brown reeds . |
| 11 | It was tied up in a parcel . |
| 12 | the cuistot , ravitailleur , or homme-soupe , as the ration parties were variously called , in that it was played out in the solitariness of night . |
| 13 | The original tree survived until 1911 , when it was blown down in a storm . |
| 14 | It was pointed out in Chapter II that the standard procedure of Roman civil law had difficulty in recognizing trusts , for they fell into a mould which was not that of the civil law . |
| 15 | It was pointed out in Chapter 4 that most patients who take overdoses or injure themselves do not require psychiatric inpatient care because they are able to take responsibility for themselves or have sufficient support available . |
| 16 | While this is true as regards the specific wording of the offence of genocide , it was pointed out in the parliamentary debate relating to the Genocide Bill that almost all the offences included in the Convention were in fact already offences under English law . |
| 17 | It was pointed out in Chapter 1 that geography was not integral to the theory of long waves , apart from the descriptive fact that different countries have taken the lead in successive cycles . |
| 18 | It was pointed out in argument that , pursuant to regulation 7 of the Income Tax ( Building Societies ) Regulations 1986 , tax which was due but not paid on or before the due date could have been the subject of an assessment on Woolwich under paragraph 4(2) or ( 3 ) of Schedule 20 to the Finance Act 1972 ; but for the reasons I have already given any such assessment would , in my opinion , have been a nullity in the circumstances of the present case . |
| 19 | As it was pointed out in the previous chapter , the reconstruction and expansion of the social services during the last war were dominated by one central principle : universality . |
| 20 | Kuwait and the UAE in particular were reported to have exceeded their quotas during 1989 , and it was pointed out in the press that apart from these two countries , together with Iran , Iraq and Saudi Arabia , the other eight OPEC members were currently producing at or around their ceiling capacity , so that any further additions to output would come from those five major Gulf producers . |
| 21 | It was pointed out in Slovakia that the first documents issued in the name of the state at its inception in 1918 had used the hyphenated form , and thousands of Slovaks demonstrated in Bratislava , the Slovak capital , on March 30 against the omission of the hyphen . |
| 22 | It was pointed out in Dann v Hamilton that the defence could apply in cases where : " the drunkenness of the driver at the material time is so extreme and so glaring that to accept a lift from him is like engaging in an intrinsically and obviously dangerous occupation , intermeddling with an unexploded bomb or walking along on the edge of an unfenced cliff " . |
| 23 | Indeed , it was pointed out in Henry Kendall ( 1969 ) that if the seller is himself the manufacturer of the goods the implied condition will normally apply . |
| 24 | He had an open mind and said there were pluses and minuses and for it , I think if it was pointed out in future years , that an extra mil one point four million pounds could be available for school budgets he would look at it perhaps a little differently . |
| 25 | so it was written off in the end . |
| 26 | Yeah , well it , it was locked up in the shed and the shed was |
| 27 | When I first saw it , it was hopping around in the bottom of one of the larger aviaries . |
| 28 | The interesting fact was that it was recorded back in 1990 as part of a series of people at work and was delayed because of the Gulf War . |
| 29 | The massive amount of activity by developer builders after the mid-1960s , which continues to this day , can not be described as unplanned , given that it was carried out in relation to land-use planning and the provision of infrastructure . |
| 30 | He , or the second horseman , did this for the whole of the field until it was marked out in equally spaced stetches . |