Example sentences of "it was [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I felt , I just did n't know what it was but it lacked the sort of charm that it had before . |
| 2 | And er the dialect today whenever this experiments was which year it was but it said today . |
| 3 | I could n't see what it was but it made a funny crackling noise . ’ |
| 4 | Well I do n't know what make it was but it came from the house , the furnishing company of Union Street , Plymouth I ca n't remember the shop . |
| 5 | The ingenuity of it was that it operated exactly like a Jacquard loom , which is a loom for weaving tapestries without human control no matter how intricate or varied the design . |
| 6 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
| 7 | The verdict of the clerk to the select committee of 1824 which reviewed it was that it had been a dead letter so far as " those artisans on whom it was intended to have an effect " , namely printers , tailors , shoe makers and shipbuilders in London who continued " their regular societies and houses of call as though no such act were in existence " . |
| 8 | And the worst part of it was that it had been so wonderful that it would be hard to avoid doing it again . |
| 9 | The worst part about it was that it stopped right in the line of flight of some bees who were working the field of clover . |
| 10 | ‘ One good thing to come out of it was that it inspired me to play guitar and turned me into the person I am . ’ |
| 11 | With the national debate over the proposals to privatize the electricity industry gathering steam we knew how important it was that it did n't fade away . |
| 12 | The main reason that he was carrying it rather than wearing it was that it did not belong to him . |
| 13 | Well it was if it 's only just come through from the fryer |
| 14 | On being asked what constituted such vulgarity , it was explained that it was because it had ‘ neither vest nor pants to cover his lower limbs ! ’ |
| 15 | If the fish was fresh it was because it had been deep frozen within minutes of being caught and packed up to be bought by her goodness only knew how many months later for Mark 's Lenten supper . |
| 16 | ‘ It was because it meant so much that I ca n't remember ! ’ she protested . |
| 17 | It was because it meant abandoning her dream of a small country practice jogging happily along and not having anything to do with what she thought of as empire-building . |
| 18 | oh , was that what it was and it jerked your head ? |
| 19 | ‘ Only when it was in the net did I realise what size it was and it weighed 26 ob 8 oz , ’ added John who went on to bank five other pike , two of 8 lb 8 oz , and others of 10 lb , 11lb and 14 lb . |