Example sentences of "[pron] it was [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After putting Reg Clarke on the train for Glasgow we were due at Corpach and the western end of the Caledonian Canal for another traverse of this fascinating inland waterway , after which it was home and rest days , leaving the ship at Muirtown Basin near Inverness . |
| 2 | So it looks as though at the very beginning of the 1830s , trade unionism was already disposed to settle into the primary role which it was fully and consciously to adopt later in the century , a role which would be ameliorative rather than revolutionary . |
| 3 | We had to pay er there was two lots of erm tyres , there was one set of buses were fitted with and another one with or I forget which it was there but I know those three were involved at some time or other and we used to record the mileage , send it off to them , showing what each bus ran during the month . |
| 4 | Their preoccupation with the military significance of the manyattas kept them , however , from consciously appreciating the extent to which it was there that the Masai received the training responsible for those characteristics which ‘ we , the British , deeply applaud . |
| 5 | The issue will complete the transformation of the Postbank , which is the world 's largest postal savings bank , from a sleepy adjunct to the Dutch post office , which it was less than five years ago , to an international banking force . |
| 6 | However , it was a right which it was sometimes as wise not to use . |
| 7 | Mind you it was partly because we did n't get a programme . |
| 8 | She told him it was there because of the air-raids in the war and even now , in 1951 , there were special reasons why it must never be removed . |
| 9 | On the other hand , it could be argued that Alexandra Maitland was a woman for whom it was more than worth abandoning the rest of the female sex . |
| 10 | For them it was enough that 1 , a Westerner from a God-forgotten , immoral country , believed and made some attempt to practise . |
| 11 | And we the used to pick on a on some sort of a nice looking little boy or little girl to say the collection piece that was appealing and I ca n't remember what it was now but er probably about four verses of what they called a collection piece , just before they started to collect you see and erm I think I said that three or four years erm running almost , so I must been pretty well good at it . |
| 12 | And he I ca n't remember what it was now but he told us and erm a couple of days later he says erm when we went out he said what do you fancy tonight ? |
| 13 | I ca n't remember what it was now but I know there 's a way to move it up again , I think oh unless you put it there and press backspace just above |
| 14 | Erm , in nineteen fifty one to can you remember what it was like when you first moved in ? |
| 15 | Could you describe what it was like when you first moved there , the area itself ? |
| 16 | to , to erm to try and remember what it was like when you read it for the first time . |
| 17 | alright he 's met you for five minutes but he 's come here I said this gang of children , I said the poor bugger 's not going to know what hit him I said alright if it 's just for Sally 's three I said he 's gon na be , he 's not gon na be relaxed I said I know that for a fact I said I know what it was like when I used to go and visit your people when I was |
| 18 | You know what it was like when we went to Tescos . |