Example sentences of "[subord] it was [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | our conversation 's even more riveting than it was before it went on . |
| 2 | As far as the RAF was concerned , they had this nice little lull when losses fell substantially , so it was for us a calm period in the storm . |
| 3 | First there was a vague lightening of the sky ahead , then the drumming of the rain was less persistent , the lesser darkness in the heavens spread until it was over them , they could distinguish the greater irregularities of the ground , the last few drops of rain splashed down and a blissful silence spread around them broken only by the sibillations of the water draining away among the rocks and the splash of their sodden feet . |
| 4 | He 'll never have to see himself day after day in a mirror and wonder if it was worth it because he 's blind , you see . |
| 5 | But she still was n't convinced , so I said , listen , I 'll tell you something , if it was between you and your husband , if I was going to have an affair with one of you , it would be you ! |
| 6 | No , no if it was from a blood transplant then I 'd feel sorry for them , but if it was from you know , then I do n't . |
| 7 | because it was between you and him , . |
| 8 | ‘ … the girls were very excited about it , because it was for them and there was an opportunity to use the equipment ’ |
| 9 | Preston half understood this because it was in him , too , but he rejected it , also , because it scared him too much . |
| 10 | It had been enjoyable at the time , but after it was over it had left a disagreeable taste in the mouth . |
| 11 | North had apparently asked himself whether it was worth it , to die in Vietnam : |
| 12 | But I was the most expensive single piece of aid donated to that district of Ghana — more than the money for sinking wells — so it is relevant to ask whether it was worth it . |
| 13 | Difficult though it was for her , however , are we entitled to assume that her French upbringing was bound to give her an adverse picture of her Scottish kingdom , and that her view was justified ? |
| 14 | There is much in the book that will be as new an exciting for most readers , as it was for me . |
| 15 | When your income is not much above five or six pounds a week , as it was for me in the seventies , even a tin of dog food is out of the question . |
| 16 | " It was as hard for me to keep quiet as it was for them , " Brown Owl , Mrs Sheila Scott , told the Southampton and District WWF Group Chairman , Geoffrey Cockrell , when he went along to one of their cheerful , noisy meetings in July to receive a cheque for WWF . |
| 17 | The demob was as slow for them as it was for us . |
| 18 | It reminded me yet again that our captivity was as much of a strain for them as it was for us , here in Lebanon . |
| 19 | He offered no words , though he thought words within , in the Welsh tongue , which had been native to her as it was to him . |
| 20 | That thorny subject , if he but knew it , was as painful to her as it was to him . |
| 21 | My meal was obviously not as important to him as it was to me . |
| 22 | She had been tricking herself earlier into thinking that he did , that their friendship was nearly as important to him as it was to her , but seeing him in the garden with Marise tonight , and hearing about his marriage , unhappy though it had been , had made her realise that friendship was never as important as passion — at least , she was sure , not to a man . |
| 23 | It must have been as clear to him as it was to her that Jeff , most definitely , was n't acting . |
| 24 | Was the chemistry instantly apparent , as it was to us ? |
| 25 | ‘ Even if I had , do you think it would have been the same with them as it was with you ? ’ |
| 26 | I would n't have omitted him three hours before , but now it seemed I must face up to the situation as it was without him . |
| 27 | Now we come back to the Alletsons ( or Allatsons ) mentioned in the legend as it was from them the Herberts acquired the property . |
| 28 | Constance was , at present , the most important person in her life , for it was to her that she read out items of interest in the newspaper , with her that she shared her doubts and prejudices and to her that she described her dreams . |
| 29 | With Sanjurjo dead , General Mola was the Carlists ' immediate interlocutor , for it was with him that the Carlist leadership had negotiated the Traditionalists ' active support for the rising . |