Example sentences of "[conj] it was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually she came to realize that it was reminding her of her father — her father and the allotment . |
| 2 | Security officials feared that it was re-establishing itself in the region , possibly with the help of the small Catalan secessionist group Terra Lliure . |
| 3 | Mrs Maugham would often abuse this garden and the widower 's laziness , with a self-righteous , alarming complacency , saying that it was a scandal and a disgrace , and that it ought not to be allowed : and when one day Clara , exasperated , as she sometimes rashly was , out of her usual silence , asked her what harm it was doing anybody , Mrs Maugham had snapped triumphantly that it was harming everybody in the street , because it helped the weeds to spread . |
| 4 | That was totally unplanned. erm I was told by a friend that there was erm Pebble Mill were going to organise an Environment Project Competition for Great Britain , and they suggested I sent for a form , which I did , and filled it in , and erm to my astonishment a film crew came down and filmed the pond , and later on I was invited with my husband to Pebble Mill to get this award and it was given me by Virginia Mackenna and Bill Waters , and David Bellamy was there , and erm we had a wonderful time . |
| 5 | There was nothing new in it to be discovered , and it was preventing them from making new discoveries elsewhere . |
| 6 | For myself , I remember going home after the AGM at which the idea to start the new church was first announced , wondering if it was to involve us in leadership . |
| 7 | It all started out as a silly student prank , but it was to mark me for life . |
| 8 | The examination under anaesthesia without consent is inexplicable ( unless it was to punish her for having refused examination when conscious ) . |
| 9 | And you know she treasures it because it was given her by a grateful patient centuries ago . |
| 10 | The third case resulted from the willingness and need of the firm to take work from any source while it was establishing itself in a new market . |
| 11 | FOUR years after it was burned it to the ground in a disastrous fire , a Catholic church is rising from the ashes . |
| 12 | ‘ Sabine Jourdain was murdered and it looks as though it was to prevent her from talking . ’ |
| 13 | It was as embarrassing to see a friend under the influence of adrenalin when one had not lost one 's own temper as it was to see him under the influence of alcohol when one was sober . |
| 14 | Just as soon as it was cut you In fact you 'd to go er ev everybody , in that day , you 'd maybe have maybe thirty yards and you 'd all those l sheaves y that was your bit . |