Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it w it was thick , it were bloody rank it was . |
| 2 | If it were straight narrative it would be a Giant , but as a graphic novel its market is greatly reduced . |
| 3 | ‘ She reckons it were that chap she worked for , the one what lives in one of they new houses here in Upper Benbury . ’ |
| 4 | If it were full size you would have shaped the shoulders on a garment with no trouble at all and have a lovely neat edge for sewing up or grafting . |
| 5 | but I were n't sure where , I think it were last week it were gon na be |
| 6 | er it were this mechanic who lives in who 's , who knows a good mate of Tony 's and he 's told Tony Tony told him like and he says right , he said leave the car to me . |
| 7 | Lying near it were some plates which had been washed and left to drain , and beside them stood the most delicate of porcelain cups . |
| 8 | It should n't have done because it was extra funding it should have been left out but they made |
| 9 | In her view , it was bourgeois women who were most oppressed by social definitions of female purity . |
| 10 | It was Labour Ministers who told local authorities that there was to be ’ severe restraint in expenditure in the national interest . ’ |
| 11 | Opinion was mobilised around the paradoxical notion that it was Black people who represented a threat to the rule of law in Britain . |
| 12 | * It is also possible to put presuppositions into a sentence by just rearranging the parts , as in the following example ( called a CLEFT ) , based on " Senecan influence brought blood to Renaissance tragedy " : It was Senecan influence which brought blood to Renaissance tragedy . |
| 13 | Erm thought patterns being actually understanding laying it out and seeing the way it works which obviously structured thought patterns but it 's the basis of and grasping erm actually delivering it your delivery erm of it using the cluster but the coaching was invaluable , it was constructive criticism we all know what was wrong and it it just helped yesterday for someone not to be coaching just to help you through it erm and I think all those three things became invaluable really mean because most of those leads on to the other ones structured erm so the sort of thought patterns the coaching and the was very good |
| 14 | It was poor Jacob who caught it in the neck . |
| 15 | In their examination of popular culture Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel were worried by the fact that music-hall seemed to belong far more to the professional performers than to the audiences and that it was individual stars who actually seemed to have created the stereotypes and much of the idiom . |
| 16 | I took , it was nine pound we thought , lot of money in those days for careless driving ! |
| 17 | I mean it was a bit loud because it was live music I suppose but it was n't a bad night . |
| 18 | So that you can in the end , when I came to do it , although it was seventeen people I did n't find it too difficult . |
| 19 | It was provincial workers who exploded into action as trade revived . |
| 20 | It was grief-stricken Abigail who made the final parting gesture . |
| 21 | And er I mean it was all luck everything that sort of happened to me that night anyway I mean it it was n't so lucky for other people but I suppose most survivors have their their tale or so . |
| 22 | Yes , it was all nonsense he was talking about it ! |
| 23 | It was other evidence which ruled out this model . |
| 24 | It was two boys we met in the club . |
| 25 | No it was two pounds she said . |
| 26 | Ironically , while Jack was with the latter , he had a fabulous season as a goalscoring wing-half and it was two goals he scored against the Palace in early April 1952 which equalled the former record of 14 goals by a half-back established by Arthur Grimsdell . |
| 27 | Without Spanish , it was one crag we 'd never have visited . |
| 28 | It was one year she could of done without the invitation though is n't it ? , if she , if she wanted her other friends and Neil . |
| 29 | So it was one day you made the decision and you stuck with it ? |
| 30 | Chair , it was one officer whom we 've got on staff at the moment Karen Wheeler who 's away nursing her new baby , and it 's to authorize that officer to carry out certain roles under the health and safety |