Example sentences of "it was [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | If the boy had a ‘ gift ’ then it was everyone 's duty to see that it was not wasted . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | ‘ I knew it was summat of the sort . ’ |
11 | It was summat like er I du n no , it was summat like five hundred pound a year . |
12 | It was summat like er I du n no , it was summat like five hundred pound a year . |
13 | yes I think it was summat like that June |
14 | say if it was yourself and father who both were n't well , he would , if you just pick up the phone and say , I 'm running short can I have a b b and he , he brings it round , like you know , j j |
15 | ‘ No one , ’ said a judge who had watched Slime , ‘ could ever again look at a pond and fail to remember that it was somebody 's home , ’ |
16 | No I , its not my speciality , I have tried and I , I really ca n't , I ca n't cope with the discipline of it at all , it , it er ruins the activity that I have , I know some people , one , one woman I was on the course with , it was n't you was it Phillip ? , it was somebody , was it you who worked , no |
17 | But the money coming in from that A B C erm it was somebody from Grimsby who got into terrible trouble not not problems really with the T P A. |
18 | Well , it was somebody who wanted to know if her treasurer man was here ? |
19 | Are you trying to tell me it was somebody 's fault ? |
20 | It was it was somebody I knew er in the club . |
21 | Unless it was somebody we have already used , and that really boils down to one person in York , and she 's shown no signs of applying , so . |
22 | Yeah so if it was somebody you did n't like you could say , here I saved you one of these , have a look at number element , very useful |
23 | Well it was somebody who could work horses I suppose . |
24 | Sometimes when the grave digger dug the grave , they would find er that it was somebody else 's grave and they had o start again . |
25 | I did phone through the week because , yes it was somebody |
26 | I know it was somebody that he come chasing at , chasing after . |
27 | And thought it was somebody else . |
28 | It was somebody else Robert who was in there already . |
29 | No , I I think it was somebody I was talking to from Bretford who said that she 'd gone she was looking after the |
30 | and we were well it was somebody who was a stranger to me but allegedly she was related to the family or something |