Example sentences of "it was [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was above me on the rocks , and then it sprang into the darkness behind me . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was beside me . |
| 4 | It was past her bedtime anyway . |
| 5 | It was past their supper time already , and the first question that arose was whether Jennifer should sit at table with them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ It was outside my experience — I refused to recognise it . |
| 8 | It , it was off your drawing , yes . |
| 9 | But it was as nothing to the humiliation which the unions would pour on his government in the last two years of its term . |
| 10 | Erm and it was as What was it I got ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was called ‘ Billy Bayswater ’ and she said it was about me . |
| 13 | But it was about me , not her . |
| 14 | ‘ I knew it was about me . |
| 15 | She did n't really know what it was about him which made her go pale whenever they met and kept her awake at night longing . |
| 16 | It was he actually whom Simon had asked to be the co-respondent — bogus co-respondent — when they were concocting their divorce , it was about him that the judge had scolded her and given me to Anna . |
| 17 | Lucy Lane wondered , not for the first time , what it was about him that encouraged people to talk ; sometimes it was almost as though he was n't there . |
| 18 | It was about her mark . |
| 19 | Diana knew it was about her father . |
| 20 | It was about her twentieth attempt too . |
| 21 | to bring it back , said she did n't know , she said I do n't know , and they asked another one , it was about what 's a hundred and thirty one and thirty eight and something , not , |
| 22 | It was about what , four o'clock I went over Tesco 's |
| 23 | It was about what was it , half past five , six half past six ? |
| 24 | It was about their last overall assertion of authority , and was carried out smoothly and simultaneously so that the Indonesians were unable to reply . |
| 25 | I mean there is a , I do n't know if anybody saw there was a a programme on , it was actually B B C , erm , this week , it was about somebody who felt that she was very overweight and actually had her stomach stapled ! |
| 26 | She knew it was about her . |
| 27 | I suppose it was about his mother . |
| 28 | ‘ As a matter of fact it was about your father-in-law 's business affairs that I wanted to talk to you . |
| 29 | Erm the it was about I should imagine well guess , three years old back then . |
| 30 | Erm it was about It was about aeroplanes and it was when aeroplanes were in the very early stage . |