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 | I knew it was military equipment for Central America , pass it on . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose he thought it was boring stuff about equal pay and women ’ , she says , ‘ I went berserk . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought it was equal opportunities in action . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I thought you liked it here , I thought you thought it was fun living in England and sleeping with me . ’ |
| 7 | Oh it is a flap , I thought it was red tape on there . |
| 8 | And , I thought it was lovely pattern on there ! |
| 9 | The biographers of Paddy Mayne quote a veteran of the North African campaign : ‘ We thought it was tough dealing with extremes of heat . |
| 10 | We loved the cake and icing , but thought it was bad value for money . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | By the third day Nigel realized it was boring staying in bed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Speaking at it 's annual conference in Newcastle , Co Down , he said it was real evidence of customer satisfaction . |
| 16 | Mrs Lee , who went to investigate , said : ‘ I said it was bad news for some poor soul . |
| 17 | Even he said it was tough ball for even the best cricketers to play ) |
| 18 | New printers had to be found , which ended It 's uneasy relationship with hot metal . |
| 19 | Samuel Hitch , a medical superintendant of the asylum , wanted to change the way the mentally ill were treated and founded the Royal college of psychiatrists , which held it 's inaugural meeting in the building 150 years ago . |