Example sentences of "[vb past] it be a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in the morning but then after the diarrhoea stopped it was a kind of sickness you know ? |
| 2 | Unfolding the notice , she found it was a call to Italian women to demonstrate at the NATO base where the camp had been set up . |
| 3 | When I first found this I thought , Oh , it 's a sort of truck , well , well , and then I walked up here and I found it was a truck with — ’ |
| 4 | He believed it 's a way of ensuring only the best survive , as they would in the wild . |
| 5 | He believed it was a kind of first-aid package from a life-raft which had failed to inflate . |
| 6 | When she saw a curtain move in one of the palace windows , she believed it was a signal of love from the King . |
| 7 | What displaced it was a sense of outrage that a man as kindly and compassionate as Edwin Frere should find himself shackled to a vixen . |
| 8 | Potential new readers of Spare Rib would not think of looking under that section for a women 's magazine , and I assumed it was a mistake on the part of overworked staff . |
| 9 | We assumed it was a practice for the invasion of Europe , which must happen sometime , and as such it was no doubt a valuable experience . |
| 10 | Plus that other thing that was at you know that it it stated it 's a way of getting rid of him without redundancy . |
| 11 | Her husband found her one day wearing a rose pinned to her gown that was not from his garden , and guessed it was a gift from her lover . |
| 12 | She went out to listen and discovered it was a policeman in a car . |
| 13 | Two of us decided in favour of The Sunday Times and against Mrs Thatcher , and those two did n't give a damn for Mrs Thatcher , we each of us decided it was a matter of principle , knowing that we were bound to be criticised , whatever we did , and we decided it , and there 's an end of it . |
| 14 | They were therefore leaving it exposed to the elements until it reached the point where ministers decided it was a waste of time and money to restore it . |
| 15 | ‘ Look , I 'm not — ’ Owen began but decided it was a waste of time . |
| 16 | Historically , people appear to have been more philosophical about inability to conceive and bear a child , and most childless people did not question themselves about it , unless they felt it was a kind of punishment . |
| 17 | It was partly because he got a weird buzz out of scaring himself half to death , and partly because he felt it was a kind of exorcism , to convince him he had control over his fears — and the horrors that were waiting for him round the corner of sleep . |
| 18 | I liked it once ; it had the clean , easy authority of my father 's office , and I felt it was a place in which hard work could be done . |
| 19 | I had never believed in Swinging London in any way , and always felt it was a figment of Time magazine 's imagination . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Our social workers felt it was a waste of time going for public law orders because the girls had made it clear they would flout them , ’ said assistant county secretary David Spicer . |
| 21 | Nothing could have been better designed to ram home to the Scots that monarchy as they understood it was a thing of the past . |
| 22 | Mrs Goreng did n't want Sonny wasting his time on that nonsense ; she knew it was a pile of meaningless shit , though she could n't actually say so . |
| 23 | The Llanelli lock confessed afterwards that : ‘ I knew it was a mistake before the punch ever landed ’ . |
| 24 | He knew it was a question of keeping a direction in your head , like a compass needle . |
| 25 | I knew this and I knew it was a weakness in him and I should not put up with it . |
| 26 | He knew it was a case of mistaken identity when they urged him to bare all . |
| 27 | Whatever it was , Constance knew it was a betrayal of her father 's memory as well as being something of which Miss Hatherby could not approve . |
| 28 | Everyone knew it was a front for less savoury operations . |
| 29 | I knew it was a waste of time . |
| 30 | He was very restless so I knew it was a matter of moments before he was going to leave MainMan . |