Example sentences of "it was [subord] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | As sprinter Mike MacFarlane said of his parents ' total lack of encouragement : ‘ It was 'cause they had n't got the time to think about it . ’ |
| 2 | But it was before they went in for all the cryptonyms and digraphs and five-letter codes because that 's what computers like … ’ |
| 3 | It was while they were sitting on the grass en famille watching the Highland dancing that Jean first noticed Berta . |
| 4 | The Stewarts had another residence , in Renfrewshire , and it was while they were visiting it that a tragedy occurred . |
| 5 | It was while they were having breakfast on the following morning that they saw a car pull up outside . |
| 6 | It was while they were finishing their belated tea that Mrs Blunt arrived . |
| 7 | The first thing my livingstonii did was to develop white spot , unusual in cichlids and the more so in Mbuna , and it was while they were undergoing treatment in methylene blue that I started to learn what characters they can be . |
| 8 | It was while they were away , and the auxiliary helping the patients to make themselves presentable , that David returned . |
| 9 | It was after they had cleared supper and were sitting by the range with a cup of tea that the first person to arrive knocked at the front door . |
| 10 | It was after they 'd finished their porcheddu and the conversation had switched to other things that Guido suddenly excused himself . |
| 11 | It was like they were made for each other , she said , was n't it ? |
| 12 | It was like they were buried in concrete . ’ |
| 13 | When boys do get around to talking among themselves about what it was like they are more likely to lie . |
| 14 | It was like they were strangers , and they 're mother and daughter . |
| 15 | ‘ I went over to see them in a tea dance one Friday and they said it was like they were being auditioned . |
| 16 | And er that 's how it was when they were running the coal on , tubs of coal onto it . |
| 17 | we used to have , I used to make big pan of broth you could get gorgeous bacon bones with plenty bacon on in the Co-op in those days , it were wi it was when they , they did all the boning in the shops and you could go , get good meaty bones and I used |
| 18 | The diarrhoea and that they 're talking about is n't now it was when they first had him . |
| 19 | It was as they left the café that Kelly noticed a Lamborghini , bearing the number plate FAY 1 , badly parked outside a chemist 's shop on the High Street . |
| 20 | ‘ They received the message with great eagerness , studying the scriptures every day to see whether it was as they said . |
| 21 | They studied ‘ to see whether it was as they said ’ . |
| 22 | Rising through two floors of the White Tower , was the chapel of St. John where the lady Alianor and Joan attended Mass each morning : it was as they returned on the second morning that Joan voiced her enquiry . |
| 23 | It was as they approached the gates that Joe pointed away to the left and towards the hills where a man was walking and he cried excitedly , ‘ There 's Mick ! ’ |
| 24 | It was as they thought . |
| 25 | It was as they approached Portugal that the skipper began to hint at what he wanted of her . |
| 26 | It was as they 'd said ; the boy had a nimble mind . |
| 27 | It was as they stepped from the dodgem stand and Rachel turned from helping Belinda down the steep steps to the grass that she saw the little group of her family watching them . |
| 28 | If a band delayed signing a publishing contract until the singles from their album had obtained some success , it was because they believed , not unreasonably , that they could negotiate a better contract by demonstrating their chart success to a publisher . |
| 29 | In every case where such innovations proved lasting , it was because they adapted well to the specific environment of the farmers . |
| 30 | People said it was because they were n't any good at finding their way . |