Example sentences of "it [was/were] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew I was being bewitched , laid under a spell so intensely personal , so thrilling , I did not have the power to resist it , or to judge if it were good or evil . |
| 2 | Archer Road or ‘ The Street ’ as it was known by all who lived in it , was a bit like the curate 's egg : bits of it were good and bits of it were bad , very bad . |
| 3 | And so it were good propaganda this er this , people were saying , Well they 're prepared to go to Russia and fight the Russians to re re you know release our lads , they 're trying to capture . |
| 4 | But I thought it were good ! |
| 5 | At first it were good because it were incentive for her to keep going because she 'd , you know , paid so much but toward the end , she said , it were getting ridiculous . |
| 6 | It was good , but sparse , abrupt even — like Lucy ? |
| 7 | It was good fortune for BR to be able to pick up the 1938 survivors — only retained into the 1980s to bail out the Northern Line from a vast increase in traffic . |
| 8 | It was good to see a reference in your magazine to valve amplification ( EW + WW August 1991 ) , but I still have a certain frustration that you may be able to help me with . |
| 9 | ‘ It was good for those who were determined to give up — and a couple of people did . |
| 10 | The party had to show that it was good ‘ not just at winning battles , but at winning arguments and friends ’ . |
| 11 | Anyway , it was good that Taff was back to his old self . |
| 12 | It was good to be sitting down with a family for dinner even though I did n't understand everything the Frenchman and his wife were talking about . |
| 13 | If so , it was good to give him experience as a bishop as soon as possible . |
| 14 | ‘ Both races hope for prosperity , prosperity means expansion , expansion means immigration , immigration means British ’ ; the syllogism was false , in logic and experience , but it was good enough for those who did not want to go where logic and experience pointed . |
| 15 | When I spoke to some of these women alone much later I asked them why Asian women often reacted like this ; their answers were that it was good for a man 's Izzat . |
| 16 | Of all the hard-hit member states , it was good old Blighty that had the most to shout about , not least because here was a good old-fashioned , honest-to-goodness motor show surprise . |
| 17 | It found that four out of five publicans and restaurateurs in the survey agreed it was good for business , and four out of five managers said recorded music made customers stay longer . |
| 18 | It was good to see those there voicing their opinions strongly about various aspects of parish life . |
| 19 | If it was good enough , why did n't the Government restart aid ? |
| 20 | It was good to see references at last to what I had always understood to be the correct meaning of hostage ( April 27th ) — that is , ‘ a person given to another as a pledge ’ ( Oxford dictionary ) . |
| 21 | The football crowd and estate dwellers of the big cities did n't five a monkeys what they were wearing in Harlem or anywhere else ; if it looked good in the Anfield Road End , the Scoreboard Paddock or the Clock End , it was good enough for them . |
| 22 | It was good humoured . |
| 23 | He wanted to grasp the newness , or to measure it in some way , hardly daring to hope that it was good . |
| 24 | ‘ If it was good enough for the Apostle Paul/Disraeli it 's good enough for me ’ at one end . |
| 25 | If people leave feeling it was good but rather long , you have failed . |
| 26 | Secord thought it was good , it was trumping them . |
| 27 | It was good to be in O'Brien 's Hotel , and to meet the proprietor Maureen O'Sullivan , her tall soft-spoken brother and their Kerry Blue terrier once more . |
| 28 | It was good enough however to set her on the way to winning vital experience — and other roles soon followed . |
| 29 | It was good . |
| 30 | In the Four Last Songs , it was good to discover that the soprano Amanda Roocroft 's voice is unimpaired after her long bout of glandular fever . |