Example sentences of "[vb past] it be [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 2 | Mr Onanuga , 31 , has told friends he naively went along with the story because Mr Newton believed it was good publicity for Thresher and his own branch , and he did not see how it could harm anyone . |
| 3 | He also followed up a rumour that another ME I 10 had crash-landed north of Glasgow the same night , although he did not get to the bottom of it , and assumed it was more evidence of the Scottish Saturday Night . |
| 4 | well , well Vicky reckoned it was ten hours from Calais |
| 5 | Okay so you decided on your scale and you decided it was nine centimetres along there okay and f the way to do it fairly accurately is just draw a line that 's a bit longer than nine . |
| 6 | The students felt it was another infringement of their already limited freedom and disliked the highhanded manner in which it was carried out . |
| 7 | He felt it was this type of blanket discrimination against West Belfast which the legislation fails to address and any serious attempt to end discrimination must contain positive discrimination and quotas . |
| 8 | The triumph came as a surprise to many fans … but Ron Pickering knew it was another step to even greater glory . |
| 9 | I knew it was military equipment for Central America , pass it on . |
| 10 | She said to me when they find out what it is she could soon have you on your feet , but she thought it were that shadow on me lung . |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose he thought it was boring stuff about equal pay and women ’ , she says , ‘ I went berserk . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought it was equal opportunities in action . ’ |
| 13 | Some clearly thought it was all part of the night 's entertainment . |
| 14 | They thought it was all part of his evident ‘ foolishness ’ . |
| 15 | We all thought it was all part of number one . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought you liked it here , I thought you thought it was fun living in England and sleeping with me . ’ |
| 17 | I thought it was another book on Mediterranean cooking there somewhere |
| 18 | Oh it is a flap , I thought it was red tape on there . |
| 19 | And , I thought it was lovely pattern on there ! |
| 20 | The biographers of Paddy Mayne quote a veteran of the North African campaign : ‘ We thought it was tough dealing with extremes of heat . |
| 21 | Tabitha thought it was some kind of antenna ; then she realized it was an empty perch . |
| 22 | At first he thought it was some kind of a St Christopher medal , but it seemed too thick . |
| 23 | I thought it was some kind of erm er documentary yeah that 's what I thought . |
| 24 | We loved the cake and icing , but thought it was bad value for money . |
| 25 | Motorola Inc 's 88000 RISC family seemed to have lost out at Harris Computer Systems Corp when the Fort Lauderdale , Florida-based firm announced it was switching allegiances to the IBM/Apple/Motorola PowerPC architecture ( UX No 407 ) , however the company now says it will roll-out 88110 versions of its NightHawk real-time machines by the end of March . |
| 26 | By the third day Nigel realized it was boring staying in bed . |
| 27 | Doncaster staged it 's first meeting since the abandonment of the St Leger fixture but it was a disappointing turnout with a total of only 29 runners , which included a walk-over by Tebitto , who won £4,491 because of the defection of Tap On in the Sea Pigeon Handicap Hurdle . |
| 28 | Personally , he just hoped it was some headcase from the funny farm up the hill who 'd been let out on parole too early with a meat axe . |
| 29 | The Scots , in particular , got a hell of a lot out the Empire , proportionately the Scots had many more positions of influence and profit in the Empire than we did , and I think Scottish nationalism had it 's economic roots in the last twenty/thirty years from a realization that the Empire 's over , and that great outlet for Scottish energy , education and ambition was closed , therefore the Scots are shut up in the island as they used not to be . |
| 30 | Yes , yes , that 's right , they use , yeah , but I insisted that it were open doors for you as jobs were so hard to get , I said it were open doors for you and it did it helped them both . |