Example sentences of "[vb past] it [was/were] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His predisposition was reinforced by further acquaintance with the Fulani , whose ‘ regeneration ’ he decided it was worth attempting . |
| 2 | Either way , she felt it was worth taking a chance . |
| 3 | Jess felt it was like watching an upturned ants ' nest . |
| 4 | It was a training programme for young unemployed blacks in the inner cities , and O'Brien , knowing that Charles already had an interest in this area through the Prince 's Trust , thought it was worth seeing if Charles would help . |
| 5 | Berwick Kaler gives a peculiarly charmless performance as the Pope , Frances de la Tour is wasting her time as the witch , and one wonders why the producers thought it was worth transferring this dismal exercise to the West End from the West Yorkshire Playhouse . |
| 6 | Even so , I thought it was worth persisting , trying to get her to remember noises , smells , anything that would give us a clue to where they were taken . |
| 7 | I thought it was worth pushing for the extra I mean when he said a thousand , I thought it would be |
| 8 | He thought it was worth having back in Northallerton after such a gap . |
| 9 | Although I had a mouthful of sour grapes I thought it was worth going so I could corner Polymers football club chairman , Stan Bates . |
| 10 | Carella explained his idea to me , and I thought it was worth following up . |
| 11 | And at Cantley in the same diocese the vicar thought it was worth making some comment on a baptism that took place on 12 October 1754 : |
| 12 | RSVP was formed soon after the NRA announced it was considering building the reservoir in spring 1991 . |
| 13 | We did make it to a boozer afterwards , though , and we all agreed it was worth making a note of for future reference . |
| 14 | The United Nations said it was considering evacuating foreign aid workers . |
| 15 | At the time , Suter said it was considering taking action against other parties . |
| 16 | Yeah , he said it was worth seeing . |
| 17 | She said it was like living in a good hotel . |
| 18 | He said it was like taking over their house , ’ Haverford remembered . |
| 19 | When Ian Durrant returned from three years on the scrapheap with a crippling knee injury , Graeme Souness said it was like signing a Pounds 3 million star . |