Example sentences of "it [was/were] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I 'd say it were Dr Hilary Jones . |
| 2 | Among those actively campaigning for it were scientist Joe Farman , who had " discovered " the hole in the ozone layer over the continent , French mariner Jacques Cousteau and polar explorer Robert Swan . |
| 3 | All them years since , and she was a widow and , and she was er ever so nice , lovely home and clean , but the bed was , it , it was n't just flock it were part Taylor |
| 4 | Well I know er it were Wednesdays Joyce used to come in . |
| 5 | If it were Northern Ireland we 'd call it war . |
| 6 | It would nt be so bad if it were Leeds RLFC , at least thered be some revenue generated . |
| 7 | In fact , Peggy remembered her own mam saying as how there were certain folk , including herself , who believed it were Luther Reynolds ' fault when his second wife died of the fever . |
| 8 | I tried to stop him , but it were Mr Benedict coming down through the kitchens in such a bang and shouting for his groom that started it . ’ |
| 9 | Not as if it were Mr James giving a treat . |
| 10 | Now , if it were Ronnie Biggs … |
| 11 | " I 'm not that young , " Jenny said savagely and punched her pillow as though she wished it were Matthew Preston 's head . |
| 12 | I 'd heard Dad and Eva in the bar analysing the performance as if it were Miles Davis 's farewell appearance . |
| 13 | Up front it was Hughes ' turn to see if he was compatible , but it was full-back Paul Parker who nearly opened the door with a deep raking cross that skimmed Cantona 's dark locks . |
| 14 | Fittingly it was full-back Denis Irwin , always an eager ally in attack , who thumped home a fifth with a blistering first-time drive from 15 yards . |
| 15 | It was Liu Hui 's Chiu Chang Suan Shu , his ‘ Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art ’ , the famous third century treatise from which all Han science began . |
| 16 | And then I began to become very worried about it and it just happened by chance that one Friday morning I heard a programme on Radio Brighton , and it was Doctor Wisbey speaking about dyslexia , and it dawned on me immediately that my son was dyslexia . |
| 17 | It was Doctor Teesdale 's job afterwards to make sure that the man was dead . |
| 18 | It was Doctor Absalom , you know . |
| 19 | ‘ And he said it was all over Los Angeles that it was Jo Forbes . ’ |
| 20 | It was Sergeant Lewis . ’ |
| 21 | It was Sergeant Troy . |
| 22 | He had taken a phone call from Gabriel , half wishing it was Rose Hilaire , but wanting to feel loyal to Gaby . |
| 23 | ‘ I think it was Victoria Wood who said that there 's no such thing as bad taste in humour because if it 's bad taste no one laughs . |
| 24 | ‘ Mrs McDougall — no , I think it was Archie McLaren — told me that your father looked after the garden there . ’ |
| 25 | It was J. J. Berzelius in Sweden who in the second decade of the century put atomism on a much more secure footing . |
| 26 | It was J. A. Hobson who made the most influential and original attempt to come to grips with the nature of the new imperialism . |
| 27 | He had slight success with tri-iodobenzoic acid , but it was J. Lehmann , in Sweden , who found that , among some fifty or so compounds tested , p -aminosalicylic acid , commonly known as PAS , prevented the growth of tubercle bacilli . |
| 28 | It was Scotsman Alexander Graham Bell who first gave meaning to the expression ‘ If ye want me thungummy , ring me . ’ |
| 29 | Of the 5 , brightly coloured balloons released at the Portaferry triathlon in July , it was Trevor Boyd 's which travelled the furthest , to Scarborough on the north east coast of England . |
| 30 | For a moment it was Florence Nightingale speaking . |