Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's bin a mite hectic while it lasted , but it wuz worth it jes ’ t'smoke out that nest of rattlers that wuz runnin' Bethlehem House . |
| 2 | As long as it were worth it ! |
| 3 | An organization would be most unlikely to dismiss them without good reason , and if it were to they would have little difficulty finding alternative work . |
| 4 | But abruptly it seemed to me that the moment should have meaning , even if it were to my discredit . |
| 5 | Erm , it was not possible to get your views in , as it were , personnel terms rather than financial terms on that er report , but er as it were on your behalf , we supported the Treasurer 's er recommendation for reasons set out in paragraph one four , and if I can er explain that for you a little little more , de-regulation could mean , that each employing authority has it 's own scheme of superannuation , or not , and if not would simply leave employees in a position of taking them off the state scheme S E R P S or going for a personal pension . |
| 6 | In such a case the impression is given that Jesus is , as it were on his own , and with no reference needing to be made to the other persons of the trinity , God . |
| 7 | When the job is over , I then write a brief summary appraisal , as it were on his performance . |
| 8 | I mean , she sort of flew the kite as it were with you know , if the wife was erm presumably the husband in other cases was mad beyond belief it was a good reason for casting her off . |
| 9 | The beauty and novelty of the scenery , the luxuriance of the shrubs and above all the originality of the Natives has astonished them beyond description , and so raised their enthusiasm that they seem scarcely to have felt the labour and fatigue of ascending high mountains or traversing deep glens and ravines , in fact so many wonders in the shape of animal creation have sprung up , as it were before them , that their imaginations have been kept in one continued state of delighted excitement . |
| 10 | To follow a rule , e.g. the rule for use of the word ‘ pain ’ ( the rule embodied in the concept of pain ) , is not to check , as it were within oneself , on whether this new sensation resembles the original one and , if it does , to think of it as a pain . |
| 11 | How could we decide whether it had free will or was just a robot , programmed to respond as if it were like us ? |
| 12 | Many artists would only wish to portray Windermere in sunny weather and would turn it into a different place , but he managed to evoke any real day in the Lake District as it were in its right clothes . |
| 13 | In the case of a private company , a pre-1982 pre-emptive requirement is to be treated as if it were in its memorandum or articles so long as it remains a private company . |
| 14 | The work of the craftsman is to realise an inner idea in a way that is beautiful , useful and enduring , and as his work is the object of his satisfaction and delight ( " if it were in his power to produce an effect which would know and love him , this he would assuredly do " ) , so man is created for God who alone satisfies his nature . |
| 15 | I should happily give way — if it were in my power to do so — to give them the opportunity to dissociate themselves from that appalling motion . |
| 16 | ‘ I wish it were in my power to give you a faithful picture of this famed city of two years standing . |
| 17 | She wrote to the organisers : ‘ If it were in your mind to approach any B-division celebrities , I should say I shall be taking Jeffrey with me . ’ |
| 18 | to St John erm she hears the call as it were from somebody who really needs |
| 19 | The moor was all round the saucer in which Chesney lay but the best views of it were from his house , the last house before the road curved round . |
| 20 | It was above me on the rocks , and then it sprang into the darkness behind me . |
| 21 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 22 | It was beside me . |
| 23 | It was past her bedtime anyway . |
| 24 | It was past their supper time already , and the first question that arose was whether Jennifer should sit at table with them . |
| 25 | By the mid-1930s it was past its peak , but it played a prominent part in the agitation which led to the suspension of the National Government 's unemployment assistance board scheme early in 1935 . |
| 26 | ‘ It was outside my experience — I refused to recognise it . |
| 27 | It , it was off your drawing , yes . |
| 28 | But it was as nothing to the humiliation which the unions would pour on his government in the last two years of its term . |
| 29 | Erm and it was as What was it I got ? |
| 30 | When he next spoke it was about something trivial , and Alyssia replied in the same vein , stifling the burning curiosity to find out what dark secrets he was keeping behind that controlled face of his . |