Example sentences of "it [was/were] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm oh I asked him about that when I went and he said it were nothing to worry about , it 's just |
| 2 | The first is a belief that education consists of the transmission of ‘ male ’ knowledge ; that is , that what is taught in schools is simply an account of male experience presented as though it were everybody 's experience . |
| 3 | But Alice 's mood : little better than a sulk , and behaving as if it were everyone 's fault but her own … |
| 4 | There is a tendency for people to approach this matter as though it were one entirely for the shipyard concerned . |
| 5 | Thought it were one he fetched down . |
| 6 | This piece of advice might suggest that his grasp of the ‘ new psychology ’ was still at the rudimentary stage , since he speaks of a neurosis as if it were something avoidable . |
| 7 | The Perm was soon taking pity on Charlie , as people tended to , and Charlie was asking him about the pressures of fame as if it were something that concerned him from day to day . |
| 8 | One nice Tory gentleman tells me ‘ I 've done this for all the parties in my time , you know , ’ as if it were something to be proud of . |
| 9 | I do not mean that there is not a valid distinction to be drawn between sense and sentence ; only that it is a mistake to think of the sense of an utterance as though it were something existing alongside the utterance but in the ethereal medium of the mind . |
| 10 | But it was n't actually , it were something else , and people were finding that their goods were repossessed because they could n't keep up the payments . |
| 11 | Seeing how the boy stared at Hammond 's hand a moment before tentatively offering his own , how he studied the meeting of their hands , as if it were something wholly new to him , Spatz understood . |
| 12 | A gang of black workers wearing white loincloths faced the camera gravely , looking as if it were something they might be given to eat . |
| 13 | They also avoid the division of parts , as if it were something of extreme difficulty , and forget altogether that it is by no means necessary to have all the voices singing all the time . |
| 14 | Caro had noticed before the way her mother always avoided referring to the accident and Caro 's time in hospital , almost as if it were something obscene . |
| 15 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 16 | I agree with him and I would resign from the Conservative Party if it were anything else . |
| 17 | She heard herself say , as if it were someone else : ‘ What is it you want from life , Christopher ? |
| 18 | Then she thought , hard and suddenly as if it were someone else 's thought , I 'm in love with someone who 's not Anne . |
| 19 | It was everyone 's dream to mix their album in their front room and that 's the kind of studio it was at the time . |
| 20 | By and large , those who approved of conscription when it came did so because they believed that it was everyone 's duty to serve in the armed forces in any case . |
| 21 | Set a short distance off a minor road , approached by a winding drive flanked by poplars , it was everyone 's image of the ‘ little place in France ’ , rustic but well-proportioned , manageably spacious , restrained but not austere , a Cotswold farmhouse with a French accent . |
| 22 | Willy voiced the philosophy he had learned by experience — it was everyone for himself ; if you did n't take what you wanted , no one was likely to give it to you . |
| 23 | Some semblance of co-operation was finally attained only on the grounds that it was everyone 's responsibility to protect the band from the internal dissension and strife which the affair was creating . |
| 24 | If the boy had a ‘ gift ’ then it was everyone 's duty to see that it was not wasted . |
| 25 | It would be possible to have a society in which it was everyone 's personal rule to refuse all help to the needy , but as someone who might be needy myself I can not truly will that all should turn their back upon me in such a situation . |
| 26 | At home people rallied round automatically ; it was taken for granted that if someone was in trouble then it was everyone else 's business to help . |
| 27 | Pete Coleman was caddying for Bernhard , and Pete had caddied for Seve , for a time , so he was thinking it was one-up to them . |
| 28 | ‘ I knew it was summat of the sort . ’ |
| 29 | It was summat like er I du n no , it was summat like five hundred pound a year . |
| 30 | It was summat like er I du n no , it was summat like five hundred pound a year . |