Example sentences of "[vb past] it [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The verdict of the clerk to the select committee of 1824 which reviewed it was that it had been a dead letter so far as " those artisans on whom it was intended to have an effect " , namely printers , tailors , shoe makers and shipbuilders in London who continued " their regular societies and houses of call as though no such act were in existence " . |
| 2 | Er certainly Forest believed it was and Ward believed it was a free kick you could tell by the expression on his face . |
| 3 | Because so many people so badly wanted it to succeed when it did they almost believed it was because they had willed it to . |
| 4 | The first time I murdered it was because of rabbits meeting a fiery death , and meeting that fiery death from the nozzle of a Flame-thrower virtually identical to the one I had used to exact my revenge on the warren . |
| 5 | And suppo I assumed it 's because she was orphan . |
| 6 | Something or someone had annoyed him and instantly she assumed it was because he was landed with her here in his house . |
| 7 | He had picked them out unerringly and Maggie assumed it was because they were clearly too poor-looking to be guests here . |
| 8 | Mitch assumed it was because of Maggie 's appalling hat . |
| 9 | When you had the nightmare , I assumed it was because you 'd had a lot of men without ever reaching any kind of genuine ecstasy with them . ’ |
| 10 | All of the grooms , except one who was asleep on some hay bales , had chosen not to sit in the car with their charges , and I imagined it was because of Leslie Brown 's daunting presence : racing lads on the whole felt a companionable devotion to their horses , and I would have expected more of them to be sitting on the hay bales during the day . |
| 11 | But Pete reckoned it was because like cos like Pete 's seeing Susan |
| 12 | I guessed it was because everyone felt faintly absurd . |
| 13 | Here was a face , buried in its cloud of hair , which looked more like a mask than a living thing , a mask such as might be worn on All Souls ' Eve to scare the children , all thickly white with painted black sockets for eyes and a mouth so crudely gashed it was but a slit . |
| 14 | He sensed it was because she could see he enjoyed the flying and there was little she could do . |
| 15 | When his mother died it was as though his youth began to slip out of sight . |
| 16 | United Kingdom confectionery trade is worth two point six billion pounds , billion , and two years ago a figure that really astonished me when I saw it was that the total of all money that was given to development charities in the United Kingdom , including CAFOD , Christian Aid and Oxfam was equal to what Britain spent on one product made in York and that 's KitKat . |
| 17 | The situation as we saw it was that there were no obvious leading firms er there were firms that had a particularly they were leaders in a particular niche markets for example 's being very aggressive , they were certainly nationally leading on insolvency and they were getting a lot of a lot of beneficial er publicity from that , locally we saw them er as erm th they were very good in the tax field and certainly in the consultancy field , having one of their major consultancy based in by the airport . |
| 18 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
| 19 | Then I knew it was because I did n't want to be loved and respected , since I do n't deserve to be . |
| 20 | And she knew now the reason she had n't wanted the doctor , knew it was because she was afraid they 'd take Jenny away from her because she was n't fit to look after her . |
| 21 | Her heart felt amazingly light , and she knew it was because of Tom and the way they were talking and laughing together over the morning 's task . |
| 22 | For a terrible moment Shannon thought she would give way to tears , and knew it was because of his fury on her behalf . |
| 23 | I knew it was because she was afraid — not just of me , but her own emotions . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's slightly earlier than I thought it was but we 're OK still . ’ |
| 25 | It is n't a swan I thought it was but I I do n't , hello , I do n't think it is . |
| 26 | I thought it was but |
| 27 | I said how wrong I thought it was that she was n't rated in the literary canon , that she was thought of as a ‘ popular ’ novelist , and how some of her work was very much better than that . ’ |
| 28 | Well I thought it was when I went out and exercised the dog before lunch , I went up to Jubilee Park and eh , I had a very brisk walk indeed and I was absolutely lathered by the time I got back to the car , after half an hour . |
| 29 | I thought it was because they could not understand the language . |
| 30 | Perhaps , she thought it was because Mark had been there at the planning stage — Mark Bristow , the dynamic young advertising executive she had met and fallen in love with when she had been chasing jobs in the heart of Somerset ; Mark who , in spite of being English , had lived long enough in the States to absorb — and give off — some of the typically American blend of enthusiasm and energy . |