Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If it were simply that it would hardly be convincing , would it ? ’ |
| 2 | No , well I mean , it were n't as though I had n't put a payment in it were just that it probably was this taking Tracey 's book and I marked it onto Tracey 's , er , Tracey 's book . |
| 3 | I thought she 'd dried it , and she said , oh , I 'm just gon na put this washing on radiators , and then it , it were then that er it made me think , well , what done with her dryer . |
| 4 | It were more or less open tides the high tides used to come over and down here , it all used . |
| 5 | Then she decided to be awkward , like she always is , and said I says oh it 's still taping you know and I s she said summat , I ca n't remember what it were now but I was saying , I knew that 'd happen , one minute yes then no , then I 'll think about it , I says and if I did n't start it when you went out you 'd be saying you could 've done this and that and er so she were chittering , pretending she said I could n't do it . |
| 6 | It was principally because they did n't perform a greenbelt function . |
| 7 | But we could tell that it was longer because of the extra tape measures it would take to get from one side to the other . ’ |
| 8 | It could no more act as a ‘ watchdog ’ than a critical examiner of the actions of politicians or government because it was closely and inextricably tied to both . |
| 9 | As the heating was off it had been cold , but he had comforted himself with the thought that it was not as cold as it was outside where many of the animals were . |
| 10 | Perhaps the magic lay in the fact that it was either or both ? |
| 11 | The question for an Industrial Tribunal is not whether one of them was innocent but whether you carried out such reasonable investigation as you could and you reasonably believed it was either or both and dismissed them both because of that belief . |
| 12 | But she did n't know where it was either and soon the whole family was up on their feet looking for the source of the noise . |
| 13 | It was either because they were non-Greek speakers or because the Romans had trouble understanding the Celtic tongue . |
| 14 | It was thus that I had been able to gain some sense of the sort of place Miss Kenton had gone to live her married life . |
| 15 | It was thus that it acquired its unique form : 35 km long and about 1.6 km wide with steep sides sloping to a flat bed . |
| 16 | Although she continued to knit , and sat upright , it was thus that she felt herself ; and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures . |
| 17 | It was thus that the classic wine-growing areas — the Camp of Tarragona and the Panadés — were expanded and the western regions re-peopled . |
| 18 | It was thus that he arrived at his figure of six hundred and twenty thousand three hundred and thirty one pounds to the overall cost of future care in this case . |
| 19 | It was soon after this incident that Sien moved in with him . |
| 20 | IT was soon after Tricia Robinson 's father died that her boss began to bully her . |
| 21 | It was soon and very unceremoniously dragged away again by the officers ’ . |
| 22 | on , it was equally if not more dreadful to him to think that this successor might treat the emirs ‘ as superiors — as Royalties ’ , thereby incurring ‘ their astonished contempt that the King 's representative — the conquering dynasty — should so behave ’ . |
| 23 | Because of this she never had any time for her own parents : my mother could n't think it was right that they 'd parted with two of their children . ’ |
| 24 | In my village there had been historic upheaval over such questions as whether it was right that hymns should be sung in the House of God . |
| 25 | Coleridge rationalized the departure in his poem ‘ Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement ’ , asking whether it was right that he should live in beauty and solitude while his ‘ unnumber 'd brethren toil 'd and bled ’ in the greater world . |
| 26 | I told Kidsons that I did n't think it was right that I should seek re-election , which was coming up on 30 April , and left it at that . ’ |
| 27 | If he needed to be questioned again it was right that it should be at home and with his parents present . |
| 28 | I thought that it was right that I should talk to you , try and build a better picture of Michael . ’ |
| 29 | It was right that she should make it suffer for what it had done . |
| 30 | So you won , Ragu , and in retrospect I think it was right that you did . |