Example sentences of "[pron] it [be] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what has happened here I believe , that there was someone told , I do n't know who it was was told this is the figure , now you you you 're . |
| 2 | It had to be a woman , whoever it was was being so devious . |
| 3 | Brodkey 's relations with his adoptive mother Doris , a Jewish Clytemnestra to his haunted Orestes , involve a bizarre attempt at incestuous symbiosis ( 'The feeling of obliteration or castration or whatever it was was unsettling as hell' ) and a deathbed reconciliation with a nervous breakdown as a postlude . |
| 4 | What it was was a dirty patch of fenced-off sand with a few straggly trees and occasional tufts of scrawny grass . |
| 5 | No I think what it was was a load of bullshit they give me . |
| 6 | What it was was I 'm in charge , no you 're not and if you meet two people give me two people who are both power like |
| 7 | There must be one , but what it was was beyond her . |
| 8 | Oh no what it was was |
| 9 | One trying to get in one side and the other one I think that 's what it was was n't it ? |
| 10 | Well , what it was was , erm , cos my grandmother was very ill , granddad 's sort of |
| 11 | Franz Klammer made a skiing simulator and he had it in his garage , and what it was was a series of rolling logs . |