Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it [was/were] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Germans perhaps thought it was a huge joke to sell a long-coated bitch to someone who was to try to re-establish the breed in another country . |
| 2 | It was draining , but I was grateful to any journalists prepared to listen , even if it was obvious that some papers only felt it was a good story because of the ‘ love interest ’ . |
| 3 | Instead , sensing a criticism — which this was not , Aunt Lilian was simply asking for information — she gave one of her loud laughs and said , well , she personally thought it was a good thing for a young married woman to cultivate the little niceties of life . |
| 4 | Probably just thought it was a strange foreigner ! |
| 5 | No , I just thought it was a last one that you missed out on , I do n't know . |
| 6 | They just said it was a sporting incident . ’ |
| 7 | Well , he could understand that , but he still thought it was a wasteful way of keeping the lower ranks occupied , and it did n't square at all with the continual excuses the seneschal and his minions kept making about being under-staffed . |
| 8 | And as they run in er and I always thought it was the best of the show . |
| 9 | You know how I do , I could n't remember that I 'd actually started the the Easter term doing the erm choices etcetera , I always thought it was the later half of that term , the latter half of that term . |
| 10 | I always said it was a good bit of business . |
| 11 | Well , they always said it was the only way to go and he believed it . |
| 12 | My dad voted Labour , my brother and my sis my brother and my dad , mu my brother and my mum voted Liberal Democrat my dad pissed off said it was a wasted vote , but |
| 13 | A GP once said it was the nearest he ever got to brain surgery . |
| 14 | He told the hearing in Chelsea , west London , auditors first thought £34,500 was missing but later realised it was a small fortune . |
| 15 | I also realized it was the perfect frame — that I 'd be accused . ’ |
| 16 | In Canada the British not only deluded themselves that they had defeated the axiom ; they also imagined it was the federal ingredient that had enabled them to do the trick . |
| 17 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 18 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 19 | I got a postcard of one recently and I honestly thought it was a real woman . ’ |
| 20 | An insurance cover note also said it was a 1.6 and Jackson sold it as such to Robert Ross , of Bridgegate , Barnard Castle , for £3,695 . |
| 21 | ICAS welcomed the review but also said it was a timely reminder of archaic and unnecessary burdens in the UK tax system and urged an independent examination by a working party of all interested bodies to tackle problems close to home . |
| 22 | I often thought it was a pointless exercise , but , as he said , ‘ If you do n't ask , you do n't get ’ , and he hoped that eventually they 'd get so fed up with him that they 'd deliver . |
| 23 | I I 've got a bill to come in from the electrician for his call-out charge he diagnosed that it 's was not an electrical fault and then thought it was an electrical fault by the noise , it was making a fizzing noise but he does n't th he said it 's , it 's the pump the pump is on the way out it needs replacing house is built in nineteen eighty five ! |
| 24 | Before I could n't understand , and I almost felt it was a bad reflection on us , and that we must be the worst institution that Italy has . |
| 25 | He failed to quote chapter and verse when Apricot asked him to , and then said it was a personal matter , in any case : if he was going into the priesthood he 'd rather do it celibate . |
| 26 | The storm broke as I drove past Woomera on the way back to Port Augusta and locals there said it was the heaviest rain for nearly 200 years . |
| 27 | One allegedly said it was an inflamed joint . |