Example sentences of "it was [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all terrifically exciting and when I got the parts I could hardly believe it . |
| 2 | When I went to drama school it was all very new to me so I did n't have any real comparisons to make — which is a good thing . |
| 3 | She said it was tragic because of Kezia , and the way she went on you 'd have thought it was all my fault . |
| 4 | It was all extraordinarily confusing . |
| 5 | He spoke revealingly about the problems he had had with jurisprudence , bemoaning the fact that it was ambivalent and undefined , concerned primarily with the ambiguity which sustains the anthropologist by revealing the centralities of a system : ‘ it was all grey areas ; no black and white certainties or decisions ; no precedent or case law giving the definitive interpretation ’ . |
| 6 | It was all so unreal , she felt she had to write it down to prove it was happening , to have it and hold it to her heart . |
| 7 | His early involvement in this so-called jazz-poetry — which achieved such popularity in the sixties — shows that Leonard , not for the first time , and certainly not the last , was ‘ where it was all happening ’ before it actually happened . |
| 8 | Suddenly it was all clear . |
| 9 | There are plenty of both , more than enough to sustain an indictment of the war , but insufficient for an understanding of what it was all about . |
| 10 | He admitted the party and individual MPs received a total of nearly £38,000 , but insisted it was all legal and there had never been any attempt to favour the pachinko industry in parliament . |
| 11 | It was all too much for Khrushchev 's colleagues — notably Leonid Brezhnev , unequivocally identified as organizer of the coup , and Mikhail Suslov , in charge of ideology in those years , but also Yuri Andropov , a Central Committee secretary in 1964 who 18 years later would succeed Brezhnev as the Soviet leader . |
| 12 | To some around the Winter Gardens , it was all an unwanted distraction from the ‘ real business ’ of rallying the party to deal with a wayward economy and an Opposition united as never before . |
| 13 | As this is more than a fair reflection of Sri Lanka 's strengths and weaknesses , it was all very accommodating . |
| 14 | From the way they were digging it was obvious that they had no idea what it was all about . |
| 15 | Eliot was well aware it was all a business of transmission and reinterpretation of past interpretations as he shows in writing that ‘ Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum . ’ |
| 16 | It was all part of the Rue Everlor . |
| 17 | It was all the Yeti 's doing when you come right down to it . |
| 18 | It was all down to them thinking , oh , Glen 's at art school , perhaps he can get it done for us . |
| 19 | We 'd try and come up with ideas of what it was all about — sometimes prompted by Bernie , sometimes not . |
| 20 | I thought it was all a joke , you 've really got to be some schmuck to fall for that one . |
| 21 | It was all gudgeon for Geoff Stanley ( Coventry Casters ) who used bloodworm to tempt 2–2–0 . |
| 22 | I hope that it was all good practice for the sea . |
| 23 | It was all economic recession , bankruptcies and lay-offs , words which disguise the hundreds , perhaps thousands , of personal tragedies of unemployment and dashed hopes . |
| 24 | I did n't really understand what it was all about except that there were always sugar lumps in my pocket for when I did n't feel very well . |
| 25 | And it was all thanks to Charlie . |
| 26 | God , it was all so … well , it was nothing . |
| 27 | He was almost sure that it was all a revelation to her and he watched her in sad silence as she covered her face and shook with sobs . |
| 28 | It was all quite above board — none too clean , but that 's by the way . |
| 29 | It was n't just young people like at school , it was all sorts . |
| 30 | And then we got to school and it was all big and confusing and there was all these boys I 'd never seen before , all with their parents and some of the kids were weird-looking with funny eyes . |