Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] [conj] it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad wasted no words and said that it was his bird in the box whereupon C … tried to brazen out the situation by saying he had found the cockbird in the garden and was taking it to the market in the morning . |
| 2 | Many of the managers we then spoke with were disenchanted with their roles and felt that it was an increasingly difficult set of tasks they had to carry out . |
| 3 | She peered at its various buttons and dials and wondered if it were possible to wreck it by unintentional mis-setting . |
| 4 | A more unlikely situation for a cinema was hard to imagine , but the driver pointed to a set of steps burrowing up between two houses and explained that it was as near as he could get in a car . |
| 5 | He pointed to the important public role occupied by universities and submitted that it was wrong that they should be immune from the general law of the land : ‘ There must be no Alsatia in England where the King 's writ does not run ’ : per Scrutton L.J . |
| 6 | Meredith could n't see it properly in the absence of proper street-lights and wondered if it was Tom Fearon 's Mercedes . |
| 7 | I pondered on these things and felt that it was not good … |
| 8 | In the weeks that followed he built up a regular round of customers and boasted that it was better than going to work , especially on cold winter mornings . |
| 9 | So he supported reunion with Methodists and believed that it was Canute-like to oppose the ordination of women . |
| 10 | He asked them why elephants did n't ride bicycles and explained that it was because they had n't any thumbs to ring the bell with . |
| 11 | ‘ It was England 's bugles that sounded and it was our young men who answered . |
| 12 | I do n't like doing intarsia knitting but I do like ‘ picture front ’ jumpers and decided that it was possible to do them by using the slip stitch Fair Isle method . |
| 13 | I got the binoculars and saw that it was narrow and straight ; it was smoke from a small fire . |