Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this questionnaire was based upon insights from case studies of self-evaluation in Solihull secondary schools , it was of course inevitable that some Solihull teachers might not consider that it asked what were , for them , the most pertinent questions . |
| 2 | There came a moment in it 's experience when it realized it was where it should n't be ! |
| 3 | And they put it on back to front and so she keeps on putting her watch on upside down , she goes and I was feeling dead sick and then it realised it was the stupid cow at the shop with |
| 4 | Today it announced it 's prepared to guarantee payment of rent by a group called MK Ice , with up to £50,000 . |
| 5 | Last month , it announced it was buying Specialty Coatings International , of the US , for £305 million via a £295 million cash call . |
| 6 | An unusual and exquisite piece of work in gold and enamel , it depicted what was undoubtedly a white unicorn against a blue shield . |
| 7 | Derry Holmes his wife and six children were on board the Celtic Pride Ferry when it made what was only it 's second voyage . |
| 8 | And it made everybody was getting shifted down to , so I did n't fancy working down there , we 'd heard that much about it so that 's when I left and went to Walkers . |
| 9 | The distress caused by a horse being stolen , I 'd have it all over the its body if it stopped them being stolen . |
| 10 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 11 | But in 1937 it switched to Kirov , in honour of a local party commissar ( it transpired he was assassinated by Stalin , who thought him too popular ) . |
| 12 | As it transpired he was able to watch one of the most remarkable rounds of golf ever played at Royal St. George 's , or indeed any other golf course . |
| 13 | Reacting to the killings , the Nobel Peace Prize winner , Desmond Tutu , the Anglican archbishop of Cape Town , said it demonstrated it was time for all South Africa 's politicians ‘ for goodness sake to get off your butts and get on with the business of getting a new constitution for this country . |
| 14 | The Olympic contenders may not be here but that has , 't stopped it being a record entry for the regatta with 498 entries . |
| 15 | Limited by what , in a recession , it could realistically claim to be spending , and obliged to exaggerate its fiscal rectitude to appear electable in the City , Labour had either to trim its sails to an economic situation it assured us was dire — thereby undermining the main reason why people supported them — or hold to its promises , confirming the impression that , once the party was in power , taxation and spending would soar . |
| 16 | It did not tell him how many French had crossed the frontier , nor whether blücher was concentrating his army ; all it told him was that a French force had pushed back the Prussian outposts . |
| 17 | For example , when Rome 's first sundial was brought to the city from Sicily in 263 BC , during the first Punic war , and was erected in the Forum it was inaccurate because it indicated the time appropriate to the place whence it came which was more than four degrees to the south . |
| 18 | Not until the second half did Saints show any of their best style and even when it came it was never sustained . |
| 19 | The farmers had to wait some considerable time for compensation , and when it came it was not the expected bonanza . |
| 20 | But when it came it was n't quite as she had imagined … |
| 21 | I 've lived all my life waiting for an opportunity like this , somebody saying you 're all individuals , but when it came I was not convinced . |
| 22 | The omens were bad , and when the Hammersmith show eventually got going it seemed we were in for an all-time rock ‘ n ’ roll disaster . |
| 23 | The river was white , and on the ferry in mid-stream , it seemed we were adrift in a cloud . |
| 24 | Two conferences of the Football Supporters ' Association have called for a re-think , but it seemed we were banging our heads against a brick wall . |
| 25 | For years it seemed they were common enough to turn the competitive paradigm into something of little practical use . |
| 26 | When Putnam and Buchsbaum analysed the waveforms produced by each personality it seemed they were examining 60 people , instead of 20 . |
| 27 | Just when it seemed they were on the slide they nit Leicester with all they had , running in seven tries in a 37–6 victory . |
| 28 | And now it seemed they were n't , because nothing was happening . |
| 29 | It seemed they were the couple with everything . |
| 30 | The scenery was so vast it seemed they were n't moving at all . |