Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it [was/were] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as they run in er and I always thought it was the best of the show . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Well , they always said it was the only way to go and he believed it . |
| 4 | A GP once said it was the nearest he ever got to brain surgery . |
| 5 | I also realized it was the perfect frame — that I 'd be accused . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |