Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] it [was/were] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , she wanted some flip flops , but they did n't have any there either , but they had a lot of shell suits , cos I thought it was skiing ones at first . |
| 2 | I thought it was blooming escudos , yeah it is Portugal in n it ? |
| 3 | At first , I thought it was spilt wine but then it spread and I noticed little splashes coming down from the ceiling above . |
| 4 | Pictured right is a saffron-gatherer whose image , painted on to a wall in Thera ( now Santorini ) in the first century BC , was preserved under ash even as the volcano which produced it was destroying civilisation on the island . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought you said it was called London . ’ |
| 6 | The only reason we did it was to gain notoriety . |
| 7 | Last month , it announced it was buying Specialty Coatings International , of the US , for £305 million via a £295 million cash call . |
| 8 | The only time he opened it was to have food passed in and out . |
| 9 | The company sounded a note of caution yesterday when it said it was seeing margin pressure in some other areas of the business . |