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 .
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