Example sentences of "it [was/were] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is misleading to write of Aquitaine as though it were one vast feudal jungle where vassals rebelled against their lords , nephews fought against their uncles , and all done with a passionate ferocity which left little or no room for effective ducal government . |
| 2 | Equalization is not so much between classes as between individuals within a population which is now treated for this purpose as though it were one class . |
| 3 | One and er it were one and three into pictures . |
| 4 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 5 | And , as it were one voice , an agony Of lamentation , like a wind that shrills All night in a waste land , where no one comes , Or hath come , since the making of the world . |
| 6 | It were one |
| 7 | It were one o'clock Monday I went to pick her up . |
| 8 | Yeah , she er we went to the river shore , you know the bridge near o on our part of the road and he were behind the trees and er I was wo wo , it were one of his sons who were with us , you know , Tommy and he was shouting |
| 9 | I thought it were one of them , you know when you go in hospital and you 're off work and that ? |
| 10 | I thought it were one of them , watch what you 're doing , I thought it were one of them but it 's not . |
| 11 | I thought it were one of them , watch what you 're doing , I thought it were one of them but it 's not . |
| 12 | She were , she 'd got a scooter bit similar to mine and she er were coming home and it were one of women from school actually one of women from school . |
| 13 | Cos it , I think it were one pound thirty nine or one pound forty six , something like that not dear , anyway er to buy two and then you get the third one free . |
| 14 | It were one of the two . |
| 15 | Well he said it were one point six but that says one point three and I really do sh well I want a one point six . |
| 16 | At first Sergeant Bramble thought it was one of the latest Atco motor-mowers but it seemed to be coming from above them . |
| 17 | It was one of my students . |
| 18 | She pressed on , walking when she was forced to until — she checked her watch — it was one o'clock . |
| 19 | It was one of the finest mountain panoramas and one of the finest of mountain days . |
| 20 | It was one of the very best I 've spent in 30 years of climbing round the world . |
| 21 | It was one of those rare occasions when neither of the Whitaker brothers reached the jump-off , but Skelton still had 11 to beat . |
| 22 | It was one of the perfect days — the high tide of this present time . |
| 23 | Raper was jailed for two years and Allen for six months , Sir Nicolas saying it was one of the most serious contempts he had ever come across . |
| 24 | He says it was one of the best sexual experiences he has ever had . ’ |
| 25 | IT WAS one of those days which news editors will remember on their death-beds . |
| 26 | I bet ya it was one of them that put that out of order . |
| 27 | It was one of the more effective Bolshevik controls as early as 1922 , and not only in negative ways . |
| 28 | It was one of those Bolshevik instruments of nation-wide control which will be studied in the next chapter . |
| 29 | It was one of the schools that came out of the Reformation , for it was founded during the reign of Queen Mary by a landowner who sat for Derbyshire in Parliament . |
| 30 | There is a good reason for this : with any luck , they will never be back there again , unless it was one of the great departments like the Treasury , Defence and the Foreign Office . |