Example sentences of "was [adj] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But apparently they know that I 'm really forward which is absolute , actually not very true cos Ed said that I was quite forward and he , I was only forward with him because the person I got off with just before him was bloody forward and it made me a bit forward but I calmed down after that , you know ? |
| 2 | What was that like when it started ? |
| 3 | No. 28 was noticeable only because it did not have net curtains , just long , dark purple ones which were almost drawn across the front room window . |
| 4 | It was hotter upstairs than it had been in the garden , but she was too lazy to move . |
| 5 | The mountainside , climbing steeply from the head of the meadow , was concave so that it formed a natural amphitheatre cupping a quarry face . |
| 6 | She had been right in her assumption about the photograph — she was sure now that it had been taken at one of those supper parties , and without prior warning . |
| 7 | Though the first state action came in 1882 with the Ancient Monuments Act , this was important chiefly because it acknowledged the interest of the state in the preservation of ancient monuments . |
| 8 | The more closely the dynamics behind mass unrest are examined , the clearer it becomes that mass political militancy was generated from below rather than whipped up from above , and that ‘ intelligentsia initiative was successful only when it reflected … basic popular impulse . ’ |
| 9 | General Leclerc , as a soldier , was not , at least not to begin with , and believed not only that the reconquest of Tonkin , even in part , was impossible but that a negotiated settlement was essential even if it conceded independence . |
| 10 | The British Minister for Sport , Hector Monro , pointed out that the Gleneagles agreement was irrelevant here as it made no reference to actions by one country against the nationals of another , but on 26 February the British High Commissioner in Georgetown was notified that Jackman 's visitor 's permit had been withdrawn and he must leave the country . |
| 11 | Remorse , dissatisfaction and hope filled his mind as the heat of a glorious midsummer approached , and his yearning for a means to channel his abundant intellectual and emotional energy was greater now than it had ever been . |
| 12 | When Scarlet attempted to disagree , albeit feebly , Constance cited the scandals in the City and pointed out that the gap between the highest- and the lowest-paid was greater now than it had been since the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | Security was tighter here than it had been in the Union building , and Reynolds had to be signed in by Diane before he could be issued with a visitor 's pass . |
| 14 | It was cooler tonight than it had been of late , besides which she no longer dared to sleep in her underwear , and she pulled on a shortie nightshirt , a farewell present from her brothers . |