Example sentences of "it [was/were] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were hardly his own yet sprang from his heart as though , in those exalted moments , it were itself a living vessel of the Christmas mystery . |
| 2 | say if it was yourself and father who both were n't well , he would , if you just pick up the phone and say , I 'm running short can I have a b b and he , he brings it round , like you know , j j |
| 3 | Oh , no it was myself yeah |
| 4 | It was myself . |
| 5 | It was myself I did n't care about … |
| 6 | He seemed real and solid ; it was myself who felt weightless as though I was just a conduit for all these sensations . . |
| 7 | Erm it was myself , Paul an employee , erm a couple of other employees who I believe to be Dave and . |
| 8 | ‘ In actual fact I imagine it was myself I was trying to escape . ’ |
| 9 | Brown claimed it was himself and not Nicholas who was guilty of the assault adding somewhat implausibly that Charlie was ‘ pure as the driven snow ’ . |
| 10 | He heard someone cry out , a terrible cry , and then realised it was himself . |
| 11 | No , it was himself , in his body , the Eight Elements reunited . ’ |
| 12 | He did n't seem to know what it was himself , but she knew that it could n't be love , and if it was n't love then none of the other possibilities mattered . |
| 13 | It was himself that changed . |
| 14 | It was herself she was running from . |
| 15 | When a few minutes later , amid the oohs and aahs from the three women , she stood and looked at the person staring back at her from the long mirror , she could n't believe it was herself . |
| 16 | I could not make her understand it was herself , and I began to be afraid that her illness was real . |
| 17 | She saw it was herself , there on the canvas ; in fact it was so much herself that she could not believe that she could be both people , one here on the studio floor and one sitting there clasping her knees , her eyes lost in faraway visions , her white feet on wet black rocks against which little waves were breaking in plumes of spray . |
| 18 | She had to suppose it was herself . |
| 19 | Then she had brought her essays to be approved , now it was herself and her pannier of delicacies . |
| 20 | It was n't him she wanted to run from , it was herself ! |
| 21 | As Vivian Salmon has shown , awkwardness in pronunciation , ‘ where the — st suffix of the Thou- form stood in close proximity to consonants whose assimilation was difficult , or would have resulted in syntactic ambiguity ’ , led to a preference for the You form or for one retaining Thou but adding an unstressed do , as in ‘ What didst thou lose ? ’ or ‘ It was ourself thou didst abuse ’ . |
| 22 | Russia , she argued , was no longer the gendarme of Europe ; increasingly ramshackle and transformed by rapid industrialization , it was itself faced with the threat of revolution . |
| 23 | In fact , the party emerged out of working-class experience ; more specifically , it was itself part of a political response to that experience . |
| 24 | The division of the national press into ‘ quality ’ and ‘ popular ’ papers was one of content as well as circulation , and it was itself largely a result of the higher advertising rates chargeable by the papers with readers who had more money to spend ( not necessarily their own ) . |
| 25 | The Grammar School in Stockport , however , avoided the extinction which other schools had suffered , for during this turbulent period it was itself in a sort of Limbo . |
| 26 | It was itself a direct product of her involvement in an imperialist system riven by competition for markets . |
| 27 | Although it was itself of a rather fetid awfulness , The Damned prefigured almost all of the conventions of the nostalgia movie : the fusing of public history with a private , intimate drama ; the ubiquity of ‘ decadence ’ and deviant sexuality ; the scratchy suggestiveness of ‘ cheap ’ popular music on the soundtrack ; the transformation of the past into a glittering art deco exhibition of costume and design ; and the constant reference to movie mythology . |
| 28 | The Director of Public Prosecutions urged the Greater Manchester police to investigate the trial in the light of allegations of police corruption , while the Manchester police authority announced that it was itself to hold such an inquiry . |