Example sentences of "it was [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This I could have done from the Royal College — but it was Oxford I wanted — and to go to Somerville where I had a friend who told me about it . |
| 2 | His voice betrayed him ; she saw at once it was Jake he wanted to talk about . |
| 3 | No , I was thinking it was shock you actually said it actually . |
| 4 | It was women they wanted up there to spread some common sense among them . |
| 5 | It was money I was never expecting . |
| 6 | Somebody was telling me that erm some careers service It was Steve I was talking to in the car the other night . |
| 7 | Oh yes Dan used to stand outside calling er get your nice steak or get your nice egg bun and all this , they mostly had barkers , and it was competition you see between the , there was er Smiths the pork butchers , erm Cliffs the pork butchers , that was nearly by McMillans that were I forget and there used to be Olivers shoe shop round there and a Mr used to erm I do n't know whether you 've heard of Percy , no , and erm his father used to manage it and erm behind the Angel Alley you know the Angel Alley , well that was down shop there , and then there were several maid shops and there was the erm grocers , that 's er before you turn o that 's on the same side as Street , it , is it , is it Moors in Street , there 's a hardware shop on the corner now straight in the market place ? |
| 8 | you know reduced price but never-the-less money new cooker gas hob removed because that was going U S and an electric hob put in the formica in the kitchen , if you remember when you first saw me , it was tiles it was n't formica , it was ghastly tiles and when Ned lifted all that out it was black with with rotten mould ! |
| 9 | Er of course , it was rather dangerous work , really , because it was stuff we was dealing with . |
| 10 | Well it was it was charity you see . |
| 11 | ‘ Because Burun will not go — if it was reconnaissance I think he might , but it is not — and so I can not . ’ |
| 12 | It was William he loved , William could n't bear to lose . |
| 13 | Wilkie said it was Alexander she ought to talk to about Van Gogh and Hodgkiss said Alexander was an excellent example of what he was talking about , the effect of this light , the difficulty of fixing colours . |
| 14 | But er the school , I think it was Rudling I , I 've often tried to find it but I I 'm not sure which one i , you know , for |
| 15 | If it was Atherton he 'd never get up into the wood and back before his Dad carne home . |
| 16 | Then they were turning into Mahogany Drive and something lurched inside him , as if it was love he was meeting , not death . |
| 17 | It was love he felt — and not only for her : for the pathetic room , the faded carpet , the floor boards , the stove , everything . |
| 18 | It was love he was beginning to experience , and what a joke that was . |
| 19 | It was love I felt ; yes , when I have read your books I feel more loving , and it is no use being alive if one does n't feel that . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps , she thought later , it was Rosington she fell in love with , not Hubert . |
| 21 | It was sex I was worrying about . |
| 22 | So it was Bernie we got talking to in the pub about a name for the band . |
| 23 | I mean , ‘ Cripes , dear , if it was anonymity you 'd wanted you should have gone into the family tailoring business , ’ I hear you say , with some justification . |
| 24 | It was Maggie he was after . |
| 25 | My mum sa , and then it was dad me . |
| 26 | ‘ It was Beck you spoke to when you called ? ’ |
| 27 | About three months before I finally , I was husband made me go to the doctor or go to the doctors for me and that 's when I realized it was depression I did n't know anything about it then . |
| 28 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 29 | United 's Frenchman milked the applause after his tap-in equaliser ended the excitement , but the red army hailed the wrong player at the end — it was Sharpe they should have saluted . |
| 30 | Well it was a kind of fur coat but it was rabbit I think , it was . |