Example sentences of "it was [adv] [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos somebody might take it was n't money I sent anyway , just an order form |
| 2 | ‘ It was n't money I had in mind . ’ |
| 3 | And it was n't Ludo they had a quarrel with . |
| 4 | It was not licence he wanted ; alas ! not even freedom — his goal was the forcible enlightenment of mankind … . |
| 5 | Her behaviour had not been normal nor good , but it was not Finn she had railed at on the public highway . |
| 6 | His body was rich with the smell of sweat and kahlua and he sent me sprawling and hyper with untold hormones upon the bathroom tiles , but one day , suddenly , actually it was night , parked atop Mulholland Drive with the car windows steamed and the upright stick shift pressing painfully against my lower back and my head banging against the passenger door , I was paralysed by the heaving horny heaviness of him and my climax was full and first — first time ever — but followed by a limpness in my body , dull as the shade of putrid beige , and later I dreamed he had invaded me in sleep and crushed me with his broadness and with pillows , though Crilly it was not suffocation I feared , no , it was something more abstract , more bodily and carnivorous , something akin to nameless reptiles , and it was not so very different from the gun and the windbreaker blowing large and puffy about a stranger 's gut like a tent in my car at Pico Boulevard , and I so sure I would be found dismembered and crotchless and gory and absurd , strewn from limb to limb across the green tweed upholstery , unrecognisable in death , and again the windows steamed , the windows steamed with that hot clenched nameless fist inside me and the glide of cool metal against my neck , and then there were no thoughts , no words in my head , nothing . |
| 7 | It was about time we had a match where everything went right . |
| 8 | He took stick from everyone his mates said it was about time they had a good laugh . |
| 9 | It had been in his possession for quite a while and Broomhead felt it was about time he sold the thing . |
| 10 | Also it was about time he learnt that bossing her around would n't be a push-over for him . |
| 11 | He moved forward and pulled at the bell rope , it was about time he put the wheels into motion , the wheels that would prove his innocence . |
| 12 | It was about time he learned how it felt to be on the receiving end for a change . |
| 13 | Suddenly she realized that her phobia was beginning to make her a prisoner in her own home , and that it was about time she sought help in overcoming it . |
| 14 | Maisie Dougall had been listening to her friends going on and she thought it was about time she made a contribution . |
| 15 | And it was about time she started making a few waves , she told herself firmly . |
| 16 | It was about time she stopped feeling sorry for herself , the hurt and pain of losing mam would be with her for a long time , but Hari knew she could not let her grief incapacitate her , if she did not mend and make shoes she did not eat . |
| 17 | ‘ We thought it was about time it came again . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I thought it was about time I made another . ’ |
| 19 | After reading some of the criticisms from readers in the past few months I felt that it was about time I wrote in . |
| 20 | I had n't been to the dump for a while , and it was about time I went to see what the good folk of Porteneil had thrown out . |
| 21 | She said it was about time I started bringin' in some dosh , ‘ specially now the ole man 's on short time . |
| 22 | ‘ It was obviously fate we met up . |
| 23 | Look , I thought it was only Jenner you wanted to know about . |