Example sentences of "it was it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony Zanetta : ‘ I think DeFries finally realized that it was it . |
| 2 | Endill could not make out what he was shouting but whatever it was it was not very friendly . |
| 3 | He quite liked the feeling it gave him , but he did n't know if it was it or the drink was making him feel rather dizzy . |
| 4 | Once I noticed the familiar gap in a row of houses like the space left by a drawn tooth , but I could not be certain that it was the result of bombing and if it was it had happened a long time ago . |
| 5 | Someone of my acquaintance once broke her ankle by falling over in the bathroom and while she could have dragged herself quite easily along the floor to a telephone in the bedroom if she had had one , as it was it took her the best part of an agonising hour to struggle down the stairs to the phone in the living room . |
| 6 | He half sensed , never really thought it though , that whatever it was it was looking for , was essential to its very existence . |
| 7 | For had they ruled that a free pardon did quash a conviction , then Waddell 's defence of impeachment , i.e. that Meehan and not he had committed the crime , would have collapsed ; as it was it was greatly strengthened . |
| 8 | But by definition , science itself was not considered as penetrated by social context ; if it was it would no longer be science , at least not ‘ pure science ’ : |
| 9 | ‘ A Gnat honours his promise , ’ I told him , and I took his kite down off the racks I was amazed how light it was It was beautiful It was big , silicon black , with scarlet lines , and when I took it outside , the sun flashed rainbows off the shoulder hooks . |
| 10 | She glanced around at the house , she would lose her home ; entailed as it was it would pass to the next male heir of the family . |
| 11 | The difference was that although the three ploughs were alleged to have been laid up , ‘ the houses are up to now standing and occupied ’ ; precisely what Greville had done is obscure , but whatever it was it had undoubtedly achieved a dramatic increase in productivity without uprooting the tenants . |
| 12 | Yes it was it was a very coarse fabric and if you 'd got animals they te it tended to claw . |
| 13 | Just a reply to that though if for instance the foyer bar became a jazz club and it was it was a the jazz club all the time then it would get a name of it 's own and it would get a reasonable quality . |
| 14 | Then Baldwin saw him again and told hint that were it not for his age and his health ( neither of which had greatly changed in the preceding forty-eight hours ) , he would have offered him the vacancy , but as it was it had better go to Eden . |
| 15 | In eighty three , when it was obvious that the Conservatives were gon na win because then if you , if , this is history now , but the Labour Party was led by Michael Foot then , it was it was in no shape to win the election in erm the Conservatives were , were led by Thatcher , she was on a high after the Falklands War , the Conservatives romped home . |
| 16 | Erm and certainly I think I think in going to neighbourhood panels it was it was to serve a democratic process of tenants being able to panels local to their that area and I think in that sense erm it has been successful and certainly , I think as far as we were concerned er , it avoids the perhaps intimidating nature of , of tenants appearing in a large centre of the various panel which er I think was er , certainly one of the members wishes when we started on a neighbourhood basis but , yes it was our intention and , I would think that it 's quite reasonable to ask us to bring the report to the next meeting er with a better explanation of how the council works so far . |
| 17 | Because they , they they 'd got cellars in that cottage so that the cellars became the ar armoury and there was erm ammunition and everything in there and the back of there , which was the garden , we could use as , as parade area so it was it was very central and that 's where we finished up as headquarters for I 'll say D Company , for Bloxwich . |
| 18 | yeah there 's a muse th th there 's a museum at Carne in Normandy , I do n't know if anyone 's been there , we went there last year , and it , it 's a new museum , a memorial museum and that 's the most moving place I 've ever been because it 's actually designed to show how awful war is and that it should n't happen again , it 's not a museum glorifying war , it 's a museum showing that , that it should n't happen , we should n't let it happen and there 's a erm there 's a great big case as you go in which has er a statement from every country that took part in the war , including Germany , and they 're all there , they 're all there together saying that you should n't you should n't let it happen and , and and I , I thought that was the sort o you know i i it was very impressive because i it was n't glorifying anybody , it was n't saying we won the war , you lost the war it was it was a , a coming together to say that it should n't happen . |
| 19 | And I was married to a soldier so I did n't have any family round about me at the time so it was it was pretty hard . |
| 20 | So it 's not that you could n't fe it 's , it was it was actually you who were n't able to find the thing , rather than the thing was n't available for you , that 's the suggestion ? |
| 21 | Our biology teacher took it , but it was it was also so , it was the facts about erm sex , abortion contraception , but we also , also talked about the emotional side of things . |
| 22 | . It 's probably E S actually cos it was it was me trying trying to find a plural for |
| 23 | Well it was it is rock but it it was something else , it was a bone . |
| 24 | It was it it it it was about for example |
| 25 | Was it was it difficult then to have to have got a job in Nottingham , you had to go to Newark because it was w work was n't as ava as as er |
| 26 | So it was it was up to Mum to make you nice and tidy and smart , like they always used to look after you , and send you down and say , Do n't come back without it . |
| 27 | As I say sometimes it was it was er it worked and sometimes it did n't . |
| 28 | Well I I 'd could n't really swear to anything of that description , but it was it was before the er er old age pensions came out because I remember my Grandmother lived with us and er I remember the first week that she drew her five shillings old age pension . |
| 29 | It was it was a work of art to make one you know , it was n't easy . |
| 30 | Well it was it was that 's right it was getting the dirt out of the clothes you see . |