Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it were apart from the bottled water that the gentleman there buys . |
| 2 | I says , do n't tell me , I said , he did the same thing to me the other day , and it were only within a couple of days of each other . |
| 3 | Anita Brookner 's novels are London-based , and they revive in their concise and elegant style , in fictions at once grim and yet subtly self-mocking , the Brontëan theme of lonely , loving heroines more sensitive than beautiful — ‘ she was attractive enough for a clever woman , but it was principally as a clever woman that she was attractive ’ — and , as in the Brontës , without the solace of a happy ending . |
| 4 | It was deep inside the building and , like the cell corridor , received little daylight through its small , high windows . |
| 5 | It was either off the train or pay the fine . |
| 6 | Bromley London Borough Council sought certiorari to quash the supplementary rate , arguing that it was either beyond the powers of the G.L.C. under the 1969 Act , or that it was an invalid exercise of discretion under that legislation . |
| 7 | It was thus in a disillusioned , self-reproachful mood that Harry walked back to Falmouth Street . |
| 8 | It was soon after the icy douche ( what he said about my work ) . |
| 9 | So , if she did n't want to go anywhere , and she frequently did n't , she ran backwards ; even if it was straight into a prickly bush or a stinging cane . |
| 10 | It was right over the top of this seat look . |
| 11 | It was right through the window , the second pane up on the left hand side . |
| 12 | Because of the vast size of it and the difficulty of controlling it when sailing single-handed , the spinnaker was n't a sail he used much and it was right at the bottom at the aft end of the sail-locker . |
| 13 | And it was right at the beginning when the demon took over … |
| 14 | It was right at the end of the main hunting season , and we had already watched as a group of males had twice unsuccessfully hunted the same group of colobus monkeys that day . |
| 15 | A rescue attempt had hitherto been so far at the back of his mind that , if some advanced speculations on the nature and shape of the many-dimensioned multiplexity of the universe were correct , it was right at the front ; but a magic sword was a valuable item … |
| 16 | It was right at the back of her mind but she could n't get it out . |
| 17 | And , despite what many people say , it was nt while delivering the cross for Sniffers goal — it was right at the very end of 90mins … so noone came on for him when he injured his ELBOW . |
| 18 | It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . |
| 19 | Baffling , this , because it was right on the copy . |
| 20 | I remember we cleaned it all up , and it was right on the boundary wall between property and . |
| 21 | It was right on the main road and he was there years and years and years |
| 22 | it was right opposite the pub now , but that was all fields then were n't it ? |
| 23 | It was right outside the Rose Bowl , and I had the lease and everything in my briefcase . ’ |
| 24 | As it was right across the road from college everyone was hanging out the window to see what was happening . |
| 25 | It was right across the road and on the pavement . |
| 26 | And it was right near the pier was it ? |
| 27 | It was right in the centre of the town , next to the Cathedral , and only two or three minutes walk away from the Sheriff Court . |
| 28 | Manchester provided a good site for developing a dye industry because it was both at the heart of the Lancashire textile industry and it was close to a developing university . |
| 29 | Ian Craig , the head of science and technology , said : ‘ It is educationally valuable to take boys to France or to the science museum , but the unique thing about this was that it was both at the same time , and that was more than twice as valuable . ’ |
| 30 | It expressed both distance and presence : it was both of the background and of the sharpest proximity . |