Example sentences of "it [vb past] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The closest it came was during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell in the seventeenth century . |
| 2 | The hum of the bowstring when it came was like the sound of a harp being tuned , and when Jehan glanced back again Alexei was getting down from his bay to recover his arrows . |
| 3 | if the way this discussion had worked out had got the strategic site policy on the table today as a discussion item , and if we were able to get clear that such a strategic site policy if it existed was in addition to the |
| 4 | We 've always had drams , but the way it developed was like a natural progression . |
| 5 | Their private parts were firmly jammed in the wringer and all it needed was for somebody to the rescue . |
| 6 | All it needed was for the envelope to be stuck down . |
| 7 | Little damage had been done , all it needed was for the cargo to be reassembled , but , while several tourists were rushing energetically around attempting to do this , the drivers of the carts had taken time off to chat . |
| 8 | All it took was for one saleslady to tell her she looked lovely and Mrs McMahon was persuaded . |
| 9 | In fact , George Every , then a lay brother at Kelham , with whom I had started a correspondence , told me later that Eliot , while praising some individual points , had said that the general impression it gave was of material being put through a machine and coming out the other side more or less as it was before . |
| 10 | What power it had was in the hands of an aging bureaucracy . |