Example sentences of "it was the [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the weekend I bought the Granada , I 'm sure it was when we went away first time I ever took it out for a run . |
| 2 | It was the boy they had talked to in the Coptic Place of the Dead , the one who had given them information — and kicked Georgiades on the shin . |
| 3 | It was the boy he had seen with Shrub . |
| 4 | It was the boy he had met when Georgiades had taken him back to the Place of the Dead ; Ali , Yussuf 's nephew . |
| 5 | When she heard my name given out , she was certain that against all the odds it was the boy she had played with — and tried to make understand her frantic sign language and European gibberish — more than 40 years earlier . |
| 6 | Mm , ah I mean if it was the question I mean I 've got that material we 've got it , I mean if it was question of sending out , I mean I could do that . |
| 7 | It was the question she had been screwing up her courage to ask him for some time , but Duro pretended he had n't heard , and turned away to talk to Dom Alfonso . |
| 8 | It was the experience he gained in Greenock which enabled him to go to the United States and feature so prominently in American deaf education . |
| 9 | Wherever the early Christians went , it was the Word they carried ( Acts 8:4 ) . |
| 10 | For most it was the air they breathed . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was the air he possessed of inviting confidences . |
| 12 | ‘ It was the year they made Dennis whatsisname minister for snow . ’ |
| 13 | It was the year he lost Sam , the first of his brothers . |
| 14 | ‘ There was a rule that one 's subscription never went up from whatever it was the year you joined . |
| 15 | But it was the way they made him feel . |
| 16 | It was the way they put me on the right track that made me wonder — guiding angels in the Bible have a habit of appearing as two young men . |
| 17 | It was the way we looked at life back in the mid-60s . ’ |
| 18 | But maybe it was the way he was looking across at her with those all-seeing predatory jet-black eyes of his , or maybe it was the way she felt just a bit claustrophobic at being shut up beside him in the narrow confines of the car and the desire that sparked in her to have this ordeal over quickly , but all at once an idea popped into her head . |
| 19 | It was the way she hid the hurt inside herself , too proud to shew one iota of what she was feeling . |
| 20 | The girl was a gifted shoemaker , but there was something insolent about her , perhaps it was the way she held her head high with her glorious abundant hair flowing free that somehow irritated Emily . |
| 21 | It was the way she liked to work , and , watching him , she realised he was a master at it . |
| 22 | But it was n't just her eating habits that kept Jess 's eyes riveted , or her extraordinary white wig that rose to a height of two feet or more and was decorated with bunches of false cherries and violets — it was the way she conducted herself . |
| 23 | It was the way she communicated with him . |
| 24 | It was the way she moved , the animation of her face , the way she held herself that made her presence so electric , not any ultra-daring revelation of flesh . |
| 25 | He did n't always express himself perfectly , he would be the first to admit that , but it was n't what you said , it was the way you said it . |
| 26 | Well no it was the way you said the jumper . |
| 27 | But it was the way you spoke ! |
| 28 | It was the way you showed them . |
| 29 | It was the way he asked get a cloth , that 's what he was saying , I was howling . |
| 30 | ’ Boy often made me think of that particular moment — it was the way he looked down . |