Example sentences of "[verb] it [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't know it was on the , it was on the T V today , said it was very good . |
| 2 | Did you know it was like a hundred and ten . |
| 3 | I say it was on the cards because throughout the match the Scousers used the tactic of playing the long ball towards Rush and it was then quite simply a one-on-one race with either Fairclough or Newsome . |
| 4 | Time was never called and the tide was soon to discover it was on a hiding to nothing . |
| 5 | And then when I came to What Do You Want it was like an whole new world had opened up to me . |
| 6 | Well they was an old cargo boat , that were n't like a naval boat , they do n't call it now , they do n't call a naval boat a tramp , well the other ones cos they 're faster and th th the old tramp , tramps it was like an old tramp on the road and erm because we used to go very slow , well th the Japanese after the war , they bought these old ships up , we loaded them with scrap iron and they took the whole lot over to Japan , and cut the whole ship up scrap iron . |
| 7 | When he did finally speak it was with a studied calm to smother his irritation . |
| 8 | When she did finally speak it was in a whisper . |
| 9 | She said : Thérèse says it was in the war . |
| 10 | He says it was like a romance . |
| 11 | He says it was like a football mob . |
| 12 | ‘ It was felt it was in the public interest to look at the company which was already insolvent , ’ said a DTI spokeswoman . |
| 13 | When she woke it was to the incessant chattering of the wheels against the rails and Emily thought she would never arrive at her destination . |
| 14 | I mean , I can remember seeing an interview with er , John Geilgud and he 'd he 'd done Hamlet many years ago and er but he said he 'd it was in a totally different way you know , different |
| 15 | However , if the princes did not call upon him to serve it was of no matter . |
| 16 | But when one came it was on the break , Tovalieri getting Bari 's third . |
| 17 | My UPS solved the database crash problems and I consider it was worth every penny . |
| 18 | I should have thought it was at the bottom |
| 19 | prove that this technology was n't so great as one would have thought it was without the ground troops . |
| 20 | ‘ I would n't have thought it was beyond the realms of possibility . ’ |
| 21 | the binder was a great help you see it was on a a a Had the cutting and then it went on to the platform and the it went up |
| 22 | ‘ I could see it was in a bad state . ’ |
| 23 | And I can always remember it was in the middle of winter and put on the , the four that bit circular bit put it into the four wheel drive and it came up there wonderful and the , yet er going in we were and the other car was swaying all over the place . |
| 24 | She did n't realize it was in the blood and not on the skin ; she did n't see there could be nothing more suburban than suburbanites repudiating themselves . |
| 25 | I thought they might be going to pay their rents , for I was told it was about the settling-time . |
| 26 | ‘ She reckoned it was like a department store , do n't you remember ? ’ |
| 27 | Reckoned it was in the superstructure below somewhere . ’ |
| 28 | The judge was impressed but reckoned it was in the wrong section . |
| 29 | When he arrived it was at a very particular time of day . |
| 30 | But Jinny could tell from his voice that he knew the answer already , and when Doyle replied it was with a nod . |