Example sentences of "[pron] was [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew it would be a race back to Stuart Street and I was pleased that it ended in an honourable draw . |
| 2 | well , I was disappointed when it showed the league table they were n't even in the top six , but they 're seventh , huh but there 's two , two teams above them have played one more game than them , but then |
| 3 | When I published this group , with an enormous amount of help from Philip Corder ( Webster , 1947 ) , I was confident that it fell well into the fourth century . |
| 4 | I never doubted what I was feeling , but I was shocked when it did n't fade over the years , and I went through phases of trying to convince myself that it was some sort of obsession , a perverse desire for the one woman I believed I could never have — or not in the way I wanted you , loving me as well as wanting me . ’ |
| 5 | In reflecting on the day , after Joy and Alan had gone home , I was surprised that it had seemed so unfrightening . |
| 6 | I was surprised as it looked so very old . |
| 7 | I was happy and it showed in my skating . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course I was terrified when it happened , ’ she recalls , ‘ but I 'm not the sort to be beaten . |
| 9 | They all knew each other and was laughing and kidding around and I was scared cos it smelt so bad and was so big and bright and I did n't know where I was . |
| 10 | So , having consistently been right about why and how the Tories would win , I was wrong when it came to the point . |
| 11 | Rory Scott says roguishly : ‘ She was very sexually attractive and the relationship was not a platonic one as far as I was concerned but it remained that way . |
| 12 | I realized I was hungry and it did n't matter . |
| 13 | Simon walked down to the stream and across the bridge to his own cottage , waving with his usual cordiality , which was unfailing because it depended on no cordial impulse . |
| 14 | I mean , when I , when I was a kid I got , erm , I was given an Australian doll baby , and which was funny cos it had an amazing sun tan and dark blue eyes and blonde hair , like typical Ozzie child . |
| 15 | Where he exceeded expectation and all precedents was in making the ban total , but this clearly was just the element which was negotiable and it had the effect of extending the king 's patronage of both church and laity . |
| 16 | Since then defeat by New Zealand of Wales , which was bearable because it tended to be close and hard-fought , has become despair , which is unbearable . |
| 17 | It was his nickname for her ; he had started calling her that when she was small and it had stuck even though she was now a respectable five-feet-seven . |
| 18 | But she was confused when it came to buying an off-the-peg suit for her 40th wedding anniversary party . |
| 19 | Oh well , it was nice while it lasted . " |
| 20 | Still , it was nice while it lasted . |
| 21 | It was odd that it lay so far from the house . |
| 22 | It was rickety but it held . |
| 23 | It was sad when it died ; sad because of the memory of what it had been like when there was still hope . |
| 24 | When Einstein 's equation was applied to calculate the behaviour of the Universe on the large scale it was apparent that it favoured an expanding Universe ; however , this conflicted with the prejudice , then current , that the Universe was static . |
| 25 | The copper anklet was probably the only thing of value she had possessed , and it was curious that it had not been stolen , for all metal was valuable in the Black Land . |
| 26 | The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation . |
| 27 | ‘ All the old clichés : it was good while it lasted , and so on . |
| 28 | It was good once it got going . |
| 29 | It was new to them , but they did not need to be told that it was good and it raised their spirits . |
| 30 | Well it was hot but it did n't come out quick . |