Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | but I mean it depends also I suppose erm , when your aiming for is the market , and I , I , I would like to have my work published but I also like to perform it and its got to be attractive to be looked at , in the first instance in , on a page its not known , er , there is , there is a lot of debate at the moment about using erm pages for poetry and some poets have actually starting using , writing from the wrong side and , and , and , and writing in the shape of a poem , for instance , if , what poem I was thinking off was a , was a waterfall so it was cascading the words cascading , you almost have to pick , ha , ha , have a choice of , of words that you want to fit into a particular thing , erm I think that 's had its place , but I think it can be a bit off putting as well , yeah , but it exciting , yeah definitely . |
| 2 | In part perhaps it was a translation of the Old English ‘ Bretwalda ’ , a title attributed to the high kings of the island from very early days ; in part it may have been direct imitation of Byzantium . |
| 3 | In addition , though the party offered its electorate little it was committed to moral ideas and personal liberation to such an extent that it excited passionate enthusiasms . |
| 4 | She said : ‘ The whole room lit up like daylight only it was red . |
| 5 | Fire-eating perhaps it was ? |
| 6 | Well we went every day on about the mail so it was a passenger service that really started off in nineteen fifty five but we bought maybe in nineteen fifty three or fifty four . |
| 7 | When we went to that the interview yesterday it was ever so funny because we 're all sat in a row and this girl next door to me was from Cornwall , and this other girl said , where are you from ? |
| 8 | The hay rick well it was That was what I speak about a a a cole Tramp cole where the hay r Hay was the tramp cole . |
| 9 | That 's right , it was better in the spring then it was |
| 10 | Out of the corner of my eye I saw someone running to a car then it was driven off at speed , and they did n't seem to care about the traffic |
| 11 | Attacked by its critics as a sort of institutional megalomania in which a defeat of free institutions anywhere was a defeat everywhere it was a supercharged containment policy in which , in defence of the perimeter , all points seemed to be of equal importance . |
| 12 | When Mark Proctor volleyed the ball against the bar in the first half perhaps it was a sign it was not going to be Boro 's night . |
| 13 | From from the from the pit bottom underground it was three mile to walk . |
| 14 | On the Queensferry bypass , on the interchange there it was five hours . |
| 15 | If her hurried attempt to close it was a betrayal then it was only another in a long line of mistakes . |
| 16 | One of the reasons why items well over 150 years old can still be found in many houses today is that to look after linen properly it was ‘ rested ’ between laundering and use . |
| 17 | I 'm just thinking now that er we changed lots of things , the heads and things of that nature so it was If it 's just producing the same cage |
| 18 | We had a breakdown yesterday it was an hour and a half . |
| 19 | A moment later it was all over . |
| 20 | The Spanish Civil War was of less consequence now it was in its dying spasms . |
| 21 | This same attitude has underlain much of the industrial conflict during this century , and was to Tawney , and others , a ‘ disgrace even it was explicable in terms of the evils sown and ripened in a 150 years of capitalist morality , ( see Norman Dennis and A. H. Halsey , English Ethical Socialism , Clarendon Press , Oxford , 1988 , p. 163 ) . |
| 22 | To allow them to do their job well it was essential to keep them informed of ATB policy and to listen to the ideas and suggestions that came from the industry , usually through them . |
| 23 | Throughout his long marriage his homosexuality caused him great unhappiness , and if there was any one key to Laughton 's greatness as an actor then it was surely his sense of being a misfit , uneasy in his own skin and forever on the outside of the social , sexual , and familial demands of his upbringing and conditioning . |
| 24 | If , alternatively , it was a gift then it was incomplete , since the transfers of property had not been made and it might be said , therefore , that the cousins could revoke the incomplete gift . |
| 25 | If the target word was the only word selected at a particular position and was below the threshold score then it was replaced by ‘ ? ? ? ’ — the recogniser 's indication that it is unable to recognise any word . |
| 26 | From this point onwards it was entirely unnecessary for a testator to go to the trouble of writing a general damnatio in his will . |
| 27 | An instant later it was followed by another . |
| 28 | An hour later it was steaming hot inside the hall and sweat was running down Maggie 's back and front . |
| 29 | An hour later it was Teesdale 's duty to examine the body , and again everything was normal . |
| 30 | When she left the centre a good hour later it was to find dozens of people in little groups strolling around the factory floor and climbing the stairs to the jig platforms . |