Example sentences of "[conj] it was [adv] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 She immediately felt sure that it was all over her and began to shiver and tremble .
2 The point Jesus was making was that it was all around them and they had n't noticed !
3 After his marriage it was rumoured he had been involved in a gambling scandal , but his father-in-law stood by him and it was largely through him that de Burgh was created a marquess in the peerage of Ireland in 1825 and Baron Somerhill in the peerage of the United Kingdom in 1826 .
4 And it was well worth it . ’
5 We used to catch a lot of fish and it was always in them days you used to catch the trout in the Summer and you used to dry them on the on the dykes and hang them on the line like you could see haddocks and that drying .
6 It was attached to Cleo and Dauntless in some way , and it was still with them .
7 I had been to London on comparatively few occasions before coming to Bletchley , and it was still to me a place of awe and wonder .
8 He was brought up in an atmosphere of churchmanship , his revered father being a prominent layman who devoted his life to the reunification of the Anglican with the Roman church , and it was perhaps through him that he acquired what seems to have been an unconscious appreciation of the utility of goodness in public life ; one notes in his writings a tendency to equate prayer with will .
9 Two days later , he brought me a charcoal drawing of her , very lightly done , a sort of dream-like impression and it was so like her , it captured the essence of her so minutely , that I could not believe he had never seen her , only listened to me . ’
10 The bruises lasted for months , but it was well worth it .
11 ‘ I 've been living on salad , fish and fresh air to be at my lightest for this , but it was well worth it .
12 She had to pay for tutoring out of her supplementary benefit , but it was well worth it as she enjoyed her studies , did well , and is still friends with her tutor .
13 But it was all worth it . ’
14 They have n't released much , and certainly took their time making this one , but it was definitely worth it .
15 But because I was young and inexperienced I mistook the nature of our relationship , and came to understand it only after it was well behind me .
16 When the price was raised , parents and children asked whether it was really worth it , or sandwiches would do just as well .
17 It made me wonder whether it was all worth it .
18 Joe recalls : ‘ When it was all over they took me back to the room , chained me up , and that was the very last I ever heard of it .
19 When it was all over we all squeezed into Steve 's van and drove up to Dingwalls , the club in Camden .
20 When it was all over I had on a wet blouse , but Shirnette had one on too .
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