Example sentences of "it was [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Every house had one or two people who were over forty-five and it was misery for them . |
2 | It is pleasing that there is a large degree of support for the Southern fire station as I said it was music to my ears . |
3 | It was music to our ears in a hospital staffed by women from both sides of the great Christian divide , and men of that ilk also . |
4 | But meanwhile the OK Corral continued , and it was keeper of her own wild troop of horses , whom she knew how to handle , unlike some of the sharpshooters and champions and wildmen exhibiting their prowess . |
5 | It was sex for its own sake , pure and ungarnished by civilised preliminaries such as visits to the cinema or candlelit dinners . |
6 | It was sex for its own sake , pure and ungarnished by visits to the cinema or candlelit dinners |
7 | With his few belongings it was home to him wherever he went . |
8 | It was work towards which all Ramsey 's training and expectations led as the right contribution which he could make to the life of his Church and to that of Christendom . |
9 | It was work for her now , dealing with the bitch and the male accomplice in Newington Butts . |
10 | He had n't really understood that it was work to her . |
11 | It was pride in his beauty that was his undoing ! ’ |
12 | It was nonsense for her to say no one had a motive for murdering her husband . |
13 | On the other hand , if it was part of something bigger … ’ |
14 | It was part of its essence that it should be frustrated . |
15 | It was part of me . ’ |
16 | It was part of what made him want and love Eva . |
17 | I mean er and as I say you had everything erm when er I wanted coal I mean you had coal erm because after my husband ceased at the pit , er that ceased because , cos miners always had coal as part of their er it was part of their wages you see . |
18 | Oh , yes , yes , but there there was certainly a time when , er universities , schools and even business companies , thought that it was part of their erm , their way of supporting society in general , that they gave time to go out and give talks . |
19 | It was part of their Combined Cadet Force training at the exclusive public school . |
20 | Well it was part of their course I think , I , they did n't they paid the full cost of it , they contributed a bit , but I think Colin stood |
21 | I 've had erm on two separate Sundays I 've had volunteers to come and help but and my son-in-law made a silt trap , and the Water Board erm made the sluice gate , because it goes into their stream , and it was part of their responsibility . |
22 | It was part of her prize — along with £1,000-worth of dresses for her four bridesmaids and another £1,000-worth of Young 's clothes hire for husband Paul Wrigley and his attendants . |
23 | It was part of her spirited nature . |
24 | If Gilbert thought it was part of her duty to track down Amy or help her in any way , then she would do so . |
25 | Someone was shaking her violently , shouting at her , and at first she thought it was part of her nightmare . |
26 | As a member of the editorial collective of Fem Sap , it was part of her job to commission occasional articles . |
27 | In 1988 a visiting colleague from the Royal Ulster Constabulary asked if it was part of my role in Systems Development Department to comment on such essays . |
28 | It was part of my family . |
29 | It was part of my job to give them a crash course . |
30 | It was part of my planning to use this day to catch up with the vast mound of paperwork , documentation of seizures and reports , which always accumulates after a successful revenue operation . |