Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [conj] it was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Luther sent me to see if it was all right , for him to come and get himself something to eat . ’ |
| 2 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 3 | In fact , we did go down there for a week to explore the possibilities , and I admitted that it was n't what it was and that the rosy glow that still suffused me at the very name was probably nostalgia for my touring days , when it was the most prestigious of all the dates . |
| 4 | A closer look and I realized that it was not fog but smoke , and very thick at that . |
| 5 | Then I looked at it again and I realized that it was n't too hard . |
| 6 | It was even worse when I realised that it was more than that . |
| 7 | McAllister , who had put the doll down , and was now fetching out her work basket to embroider pansies on some fine lawn dresses made for the bazaar by the aforesaid ladies , said , ‘ I did n't mean to become involved , you know , but Matey has been so kind to me — when not slave-driving me , you understand — that when she asked me to accompany her I had not the heart to refuse , and strangely , after I began to work for the bazaar , I found that it was most rewarding . ’ |
| 8 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 9 | Sometimes I found that it was better left off , but equally it could often provide the missing element in certain sounds . |
| 10 | Each repeated the other 's remarks and on the couple of occasions that I went there when Sparks were crowded out , I found that it was extremely difficult not to laugh . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not really inclined to do a post-mortem on ‘ Provision ’ , other than to say that I acknowledge that it was less successful and less fun than the previous album , ’ he says in a most matter-of-fact voice . |
| 12 | Its daggered gape was even wider , and I imagine that it was even more terrifying . |
| 13 | I appreciate that it was extremely difficult for you to decide what to do in the circumstances of some hon. Members being unable to get into the House . |
| 14 | I replied that it was not the first time , but that I had borne the previous occasions with courage and would do so now . |
| 15 | I accept that it was not mandatory upon the judge to require that the mother be given notice of the foster mother 's application , but he knew in general terms from the evidence before him that the mother had maintained an active interest in the children and that she was unhappy about the children 's placement with the foster mother . |
| 16 | he 's a little , aye I know but he 's , yeah I know but it was n't for a week was it ? |
| 17 | Then I discovered that it was still only ten to two . |
| 18 | That night as I lay in bed I prayed that it was not our name , only one like ours ; I still could n't believe it . |
| 19 | Now I protested that it was n't properly decorated yet and that I 'd rather he came when I had it looking its best . |
| 20 | ‘ On the Friday night I had stayed up to watch the late film , and at 3.30am I decided that it was n't worthwhile going to bed as I had to be at John 's house at seven o'clock . |
| 21 | I decided that it was not for me and moved over to accountancy — I had always been reasonable at maths — working for the Co-op and attending college part time . |
| 22 | I decided that it was perhaps because they were n't possessive and had given no other human being the feeling that having been once disgorged he was n't safe and at any moment might find himself gobbled up again and back in the confines of a body not his own . |
| 23 | I mean it was a bit loud because it was live music I suppose but it was n't a bad night . |
| 24 | I suppose if it was there all by itself it must have been a ram . ’ |
| 25 | I feel that it was actually so quick — not at all what I 'd been led to expect from antenatal classes — that I could n't savour the birth or get used to the idea . |
| 26 | So , as I stood there on Hampstead Heath , I felt that it was just from that point of view that the single surviving Pinus sylvestris was intended to be seen . |
| 27 | I felt that it was pretty rotten after the way the chap helped us , especially as my friend came from a staunch Church family . |
| 28 | I felt that it was too easy for what were essentially white women 's publishers culling some short stories and poems from Blackwomen and then hailing the fact that they had published x-dozen Blackwomen writers . |
| 29 | After reading some of the criticisms from readers in the past few months I felt that it was about time I wrote in . |
| 30 | What would I mean if it was n't , if it was if it was erm think of another U K customer . |