Example sentences of "it [be] [conj] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How much further would it be before she reached the main road ? |
| 2 | But it 's because we accepted the challenge of change , even though we may not have liked everything that went with it , that we 're here today . |
| 3 | If I sounded dubious about The Smiths , it 's because they represented the first threat to us . ’ |
| 4 | Saw the bit where , it 's got like tha that where he 's been , he said , I think it 's because I had the , I smoked pot or something , marijuana once then I got I got busted or something and ! |
| 5 | It is if you had the other compound where this O H group was on carbon number two as well then those two would be positional isomers cos their carbon skeleton would then be the same and all they would differ is in the position of the O H functional group . |
| 6 | No exactly but I think prior to that , we did do what you 're suggesting , we did go round all the areas , Dick , myself and Malcolm and Chris , walked round all the areas , told told the people what needed tidying up to go in the it was before we had the racking up by the way so it was more messy |
| 7 | It was before I had the bairn , and I would n't go and they put us down the block for being cheeky . |
| 8 | Well I felt , I just did n't know what it was but it lacked the sort of charm that it had before . |
| 9 | This regular weekly contact , together with the organised group visits , meant that the students approached teaching practice knowing that they could organise a lesson in terms of defining in advance what it was that they wanted the children to learn how to do ; and then , by working backwards , sort out their materials , activities and procedures . |
| 10 | The two went into a long drinking session , and the end of it was that he bought the man 's seventeen-year-old daughter outright , with the last of his grant . |
| 11 | From the first day they completely opted out , wandering around saying how beautiful it was while we dug the vegetable garden . |
| 12 | It was after he broke the engagement that the real craziness started . |
| 13 | perhaps it was when we had the census paper |
| 14 | On any model , when knitting the neckline , start with the second side of the neck with the carriage on the same side as it was when you started the first side of the neck . |
| 15 | Because this is a hell of a lot damper today than what it was when I had the salt about you . |
| 16 | It was as they left the café that Kelly noticed a Lamborghini , bearing the number plate FAY 1 , badly parked outside a chemist 's shop on the High Street . |
| 17 | It was as they approached the gates that Joe pointed away to the left and towards the hills where a man was walking and he cried excitedly , ‘ There 's Mick ! ’ |
| 18 | It was as she put the last plate on the table that the door opened and Carrie Smith entered the kitchen . |
| 19 | But if I overstepped the mark it was because you made the running . ’ |
| 20 | Maybe it was because she had the advantage of the high ground and was looking down on me . |
| 21 | Walter Robins told him it was because he antagonised the fasties by doffing his cap after evading a bouncer ( Randall used to infuriate Lillee in this way ) ; Barrington , though , was only being his naturally jolly self . |
| 22 | I did not ask him why , but I sensed that it was because he knew the culprit . |
| 23 | It was because he liked the idea of death , because he wanted to talk about it . |
| 24 | Tug had forgotten what day it was until he heard the bells . |