Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] it [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was always crafty , he 'd hit me where it was covered , on the body and the legs , never on my face . |
| 2 | If I if it was sat trying to make an appointment with you for example er and I do n't know too much about the product we 're just getting |
| 3 | And when I When it was opened out for me going to Deerness , well that was a great event . |
| 4 | A home-made notice informed me that it was kept by M. McDougall , who also did bed and breakfasts . |
| 5 | ‘ It has no name , ’ Sapan said , ‘ but when I told some other people I brought here that it had no name , they said to me that it was called Narnia . ’ |
| 6 | It seemed to me that it was wanting in every detail , but the objective facts are that I was five feet two and a half , weighed eight stone five , and had my fair share of acne . |
| 7 | Did n't you tell me that it was stolen ? |
| 8 | Over the last year he had worked hard to create an image for himself and it was paying off . |
| 9 | I knew Marcus needed me and it was breaking my heart . |
| 10 | John , who fronts new band Undercover — at No. 17 with a re-make of pop classic Baker Street — says : ‘ She 'd have warned me if it was going to flop . ’ |
| 11 | She rapped on his door , swung it open and stood in the doorway , not trusting either of them if it was shut . |
| 12 | She had gone away to escape Lowell , but the cottage was part of both of them and it was demanding her presence . |
| 13 | A critic had coined a phrase for them and it was taken up as a catch phrase — ‘ They dance as one woman and what a woman . ’ |
| 14 | The soot would be everywhere — halfway up the tunnel sides , but mostly on me , and certainly none where it was intended . |
| 15 | By their definition they had achieved three important end results : ( 1 ) the patient is allowed to define the nature of his feelings , ( 2 ) the doctor is relieved of the responsibility of finding tissue damage , ( 3 ) there is no conceivable way in which a baby or an animal could tell you that it was having an ‘ unpleasant sensory and emotional experience ’ . |
| 16 | no , but nowadays the , the machines do n't take , mind you because it was take a lot of water , waste . |
| 17 | Fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you , so that you may guard ( against evil ) Surrah 11 , 183 |
| 18 | Another possibility presented itself when it was noted the town of Renfrew had a small airfield that would site the aircraft much closer to the docks . |
| 19 | And you you will know as well in relation to Policy H one that it was said that if fact development housing development in particular 's kept pace more or less with the er the policy of er the the policy set out in the structure plan . |
| 20 | When Vo Quy was young — and was the local schoolteacher and an enthusiastic amateur ornithologist — his village still had its own rainforest , one that it was committed to protect . |
| 21 | And they said , just said in the end again there was er an article or something and it was saying that you know that er did did you eventually get the money ? |
| 22 | Piper had started using Red Indian names for its aircraft and when it inherited the ‘ poor man 's Dakota ’ from Stinson the double fin and rudder layout was replaced with a single one and it was decided to call it the Apache . |
| 23 | There was one but it was blocked up . |
| 24 | He might say that there was a convention relating to such actions or that he did something because it was expected of him . |
| 25 | And the one lost creature , he became the saved one because it was made aware that is was lost . |
| 26 | It 's bad enough now , but it must have been really something when it was occupied . |
| 27 | Chester had put together a deal for the centre which would have cost the Government nothing because it was tied in with private sector development . |
| 28 | Julie rolled over , finally propping herself against the back door , touching the bolts there to reassure herself that it was locked . |
| 29 | Poor Maxine had such a low opinion of herself that it was going to be necessary to build up her confidence in general , so that she would then be able to play a part in her own treatment . |
| 30 | It was made very clear that the work had no appeal whatsoever and it was classed in a derogatory manner as ‘ modern art ’ . |