Example sentences of "was [pron] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was his and it seemed a palace . |
| 2 | So delightfully muzzy was she that it seemed to her the night in Nice had never happened … |
| 3 | It was something that it had happened at all . |
| 4 | ‘ Where was he when it happened ? ’ |
| 5 | Removal of this national vulnerability and dependence on other nations became the prime aim , and so compelling an aim was it that it came to be achieved by fair means or foul . |
| 6 | How was it that it had taken him so long to see Parry 's daughter thus clearly ? |
| 7 | What sort of building was it before it became a museum ? |
| 8 | Something like that , trying to remember now what it was , sixteen hundred , sixteen hundred that was it and it says your credit limit is sixteen , sixteen , you could spend up to sixteen hundred pounds , whether you got it or not you can spend it , so we said if we 're gon na get this computer because you get these Air Miles out of it , you know , every ten pounds you get an Air Mile , well if he 's getting a computer over a thousand pounds you know with all the paraphernalia that goes with it , well that 's a lot of Air Miles there , well we said we 'll get it through Access , but there is n't , our credit limit on Access is n't enough to pay for the computer , sixteen hundred it 's more than sixteen hundred , in , in the long , once he 's got his printer and God knows what you know , so I phoned them up and he said erm is it possible to adjust the limit upwards ? |
| 9 | She knew he was hers and it thrilled her . |