Example sentences of "[vb past] it be [art] [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 | When she awoke , rubbing at a rather stiff neck , feeling hungry , but better than she expected , she found it was the middle of the morning and sunshine was streaming into every corner of the cottage . |
| 5 | Not that there is anything to lose by keeping the door open , but really I believed it is every man for himself . |
| 6 | He believed it 's a way of ensuring only the best survive , as they would in the wild . |
| 7 | He believed it was a kind of first-aid package from a life-raft which had failed to inflate . |
| 8 | When she saw a curtain move in one of the palace windows , she believed it was a signal of love from the King . |
| 9 | She added it 's the nature of the beast a sign of the times . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Plus that other thing that was at you know that it it stated it 's a way of getting rid of him without redundancy . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I guessed it was the shock of Froggy 's death , and the tension of caddying for one of his contracted professionals . |
| 16 | With the dreams of 1945 's Labour victory long gone , and the pretensions of the Conservatives painfully exposed it was the hour for the group of young meritocrats who had done well out of the peace , the Angry Young Men . |
| 17 | Though he 'd scarcely taken his eyes off her , and in a strange sort of way appeared to be fascinated by her , she sensed it was the kind of reluctant fascination one might feel for an intriguing , but poisonous snake . |
| 18 | In the uproar which followed it was no help at all that the other teachers signed a statement that the girl had been continually insolent and had provoked the teacher beyond reasonable self-control . |
| 19 | She went out to listen and discovered it was a policeman in a car . |
| 20 | On answering the phone I discovered it was the manager of my football team , Bob , to say that due to a waterlogged pitch the game was off . |
| 21 | The only thing that spoilt it was the absence of Robert . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Look , I 'm not — ’ Owen began but decided it was a waste of time . |
| 25 | But when she married and moved to a distant part of the country , I decided it was the moment for me to change my life too . |
| 26 | With a career as an actress already established it was the success of Lynda La Plante 's 12 part series for Euston Films , WIDOWS , ( 1982 ) , which enabled her to concentrate full time on writing . |
| 27 | But the spokeswoman stressed it was the length of wait rather than numbers in the queue that mattered . |
| 28 | At first she thought it was the sea , but then she saw it was the pool of tears . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |