Example sentences of "it was [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was ye contaminated it . ’ |
| 2 | When both parents are dead there is no one to talk with about those uncertain , early memories of people and places , or to confirm when it was we had measles , or where we stayed on holiday . |
| 3 | And they they seemed very determined er you know if if you do n't I think you 'd better er put the the box there and within twenty four forty eight hours or whatever it was we had the box in Quix you know . |
| 4 | No I was n't so much disappointed as that I was disappointed that there was only five would be sponsors and that it was we had to give out |
| 5 | It was we had fried oysters in |
| 6 | Because , i it was we 've got too many bits on the Welsh dresser anyway . |
| 7 | And it 's Glen it was we renamed it to Glenmanor . |
| 8 | As it was we finished a stroke behind Dai Rees and lied for second with Kel Nagle . |
| 9 | An' then we 'ave a look at Bill 's book to check out what it was we got up to . |
| 10 | So it was we 'd got distractions and then we suddenly chip in with all these choruses er no ! |
| 11 | And erm it was we looked at one hospital and quite clear over the years , but there was an internal leak somewhere . |
| 12 | They were the years in which we began to grow up ; in which we started to discover who it was we thought we 'd like to be ; in which our earliest ( and therefore longest-lasting ) preferences in love , music , pleasure were formed . |
| 13 | Yes it was we did |
| 14 | I keep squinting out the window of the 188 bus to recognize where it was we hid Patterson . |
| 15 | It was we need |
| 16 | Whatever it was they went into the sea for , it was found way down in its ice-cold black depths . |
| 17 | They would say whatever it was they had to say in their own time . |
| 18 | This — whatever it was they planned — was just one of eight incidents across the country on Sunday night . |
| 19 | And er whatever whatever it was they said that er they would n't chance operating on him . |
| 20 | And whatever lump it was they said was n't anything to worry about . |
| 21 | ‘ Jehovah was wont to scare the pants off the Israelites — or whatever it was they girded up their loins with . ’ |
| 22 | While one may reasonably ask what someone shouted , it hardly makes sense to ask what it was they screamed . |
| 23 | United Airlines and American Airlines I 've been told are n't really all that good to fly with , mate of ours went up to the airport to pick his parents up , they just got back from a holiday in and er they flew and a , on a seven hour journey , where ever it was they come from , they did n't have any food , no food , nothing , what they done is they , they , they 'd taken a container off , but they had n't put a new one on . |
| 24 | Cos whoever it was they got me in trouble . |
| 25 | You can both go to hell for all I care , ’ Sarella wondered how it was they 'd managed to get off the subject of the telephone call so quickly . |
| 26 | Well , he was talk we were talking about the rave and th what was wrong with it and he was saying basically it was they 'd got four DJs who were all techno and they were like brilliant ! |
| 27 | Yeah it was they call erm a hoax . |
| 28 | So it was that Edward Carrington became the driver , and so it was they turned up at Florence Drive to learn that Major Barrie of the Home Guard had gone with a lieutenant and two soldiers of the Eleventh Cameronians to escort the prisoner to Maryhill Barracks , on the other side of the city . |
| 29 | Yeah well they do n't think it was they do n't think it was the first one , no . |
| 30 | Likewise Caroline Bynum , in Holy Feast , Holy Fast , her book about medieval women religious , pours a rigorous historian 's scorn on the idea that the extreme penitential fastings of some of these women can really be diagnosed as anorexic , or as any other sort of neurosis ( as proposed for example by Rudolph Bell in Holy Anorexia ) : not merely are the case histories inadequate , but these women 's understanding of their bodies , of their relationship to Christ , of their right to participate in his sufferings , of their sense of identity , their very selves , was formed in a social environment so different from our own that nothing is to be gained by reading off their lives in this way rather than exploring in proper detail what it was they did feel and think . |