Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blanche had drawn the hedgehog-child in a Victorian high chair at a Victorian table ; behind it were dark panes of cupboard glass , before it a huge intruding hand , pointing to its dish . |
| 2 | The man who used to ride around Knockglen as if it were all part of his estate ; that was Eve 's grandfather , Major Charles Westward . |
| 3 | And there was a , a book , I always regret not pho photostatting it , where one of the people who write on health er made the point that you start with the full page in the book , and the outer band of it were all pictures of the world , and then it was erm a particular sort of location in a town , and then it was a house and garden and then it was a room in a house . |
| 4 | The contract is back again , I done all this erm water pipe it were all gravel in there sunk into the ground you know big hole in the ground ! |
| 5 | In it were all kinds of animals and birds . |
| 6 | Yes , I think that we could actually kill as it were two birds with one stone here er , the conversion of military industry into civilian industry has begun in the Soviet Union but it was going very slowly and part of the reason for that is , is it 's very expensive , now that seems to me a worthy recipient for Western direct economic aid . |
| 7 | Beautifully displayed on it were two twists of marinated salmon , sprigs of red and green lettuce and watercress , slices of passion fruit , two slices of filet of hare , a sprig of broccoli , two crumbed and fried mushrooms in a pale-gold sauce which I guessed to be pan juices , reduced and bodied out with cream . |
| 8 | So we started another thing then the , if you paid fourpence you , you could have your suit wrapped up and it were new paper with string . |
| 9 | She said to me when they find out what it is she could soon have you on your feet , but she thought it were that shadow on me lung . |
| 10 | ‘ It were that doctor with the yellow hair , were n't it ? ’ she said . |
| 11 | yes I allow the plaintiffs appeal and dismiss the defendants as it were cross appeal from the order in erm it 's the August er taxing master right of the twelfth , twelfth of August is n't it ? |
| 12 | Behind it were several sets of screens at different angles , behind which the stripogrammers or Boozebusters got changed . |
| 13 | Mixed in it were 30 kg of TCDD . |
| 14 | In it were elaborate displays of every kind of knife : from vegetable knives for the kitchen , to horn-handled hunting knives . |
| 15 | He was studying it reverently , as if it were some breviary of tobacco . |
| 16 | But again the accent was on seniority : ‘ Commonly wee do not call any a yeoman till he be married , and have children , and as it were some authoritie among his neighbours ’ . |
| 17 | Condensation is an epidemic on this estate and usually the tenants are blamed , as though it were some kind of social disease , not a structural defect . |
| 18 | The establishment was ringed with barbed wire , and guarded by men of the R.A.F. Regiment whose N.C.O.s kept discipline by threatening their men that misdemeanours would result in their being sent ‘ inside the Park ’ , as if it were some sort of madhouse . |
| 19 | Usually , one then treats one set of relations as problematic and.simply assumes the existence of the other , as if it were some sort of indeterminate background noise or , more contentiously , assigns truth to one and falsity to the other . |
| 20 | People often treat science as if it were some sort of ‘ forbidden country ’ . |
| 21 | It was disguised as if it were some form of regional assistance , whereas it was bailing out uneconomic , old industries which ought to have been modernised . |
| 22 | Yes , yes , that 's right , they use , yeah , but I insisted that it were open doors for you as jobs were so hard to get , I said it were open doors for you and it did it helped them both . |
| 23 | Yes , yes , that 's right , they use , yeah , but I insisted that it were open doors for you as jobs were so hard to get , I said it were open doors for you and it did it helped them both . |
| 24 | I came through and it was blue lights from wall to wall … |
| 25 | It was extra train on Sunday and today , to prepare for tomorrow 's vital game against Peterborough . |
| 26 | ‘ But it was three-and-a-half years in development and nobody could foresee at the start what the economy would be like now . |
| 27 | As he put his foot on the doorstep , a young man seemed to jostle him — it was young McCulloch from Weem , the sulky handsome lad with the curly head — why had he come hanging about here instead of hearing his own man preach in Weem ? |
| 28 | It was pleasant walking in the October afternoon , though the going was rough . |
| 29 | ELEANOR apart , for the rest of the King 's subjects the Treaty of Montlouis meant , by and large , a return to the status quo as it was fifteen days before the outbreak of war . |
| 30 | It was fifteen days before Isambard 's inconspicuous agents in Pool and about the hospitable courtyard of Strata Marcella picked up traces of the Welsh marauders . |