Example sentences of "it [was/were] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it wuz me lyin' there , my Ruthie 'd be ransackin' the house lookin' fer the insurance policies , t'check they wuz payed up t'date . |
| 2 | Erm oh I asked him about that when I went and he said it were nothing to worry about , it 's just |
| 3 | The first is a belief that education consists of the transmission of ‘ male ’ knowledge ; that is , that what is taught in schools is simply an account of male experience presented as though it were everybody 's experience . |
| 4 | But Alice 's mood : little better than a sulk , and behaving as if it were everyone 's fault but her own … |
| 5 | over that woman 's feet , cos you know what she did , she rang up Lynnette , she got through to the wrong extension Debbie answered , she slammed the phone down , and Debbie knew it were her she went mad |
| 6 | It were her give it us . |
| 7 | Each scrap of news any one of them had about themselves or their immediate family — child , husband , dog , cat , Bendix dishwasher , a new dress or pair of shoes , the price of every article they bought — was as fascinating to each other as if it were their very own ; and any little thing out of Great Meadow was pure binding . |
| 8 | Lawn owners have good reason for keeping clear consciences and generally living each day as through it were their last . |
| 9 | In The World 's Desire , Rider Haggard and his close friend Andrew Lang presented as it were their thesis of romance in a turgid tale based on certain theories of their time concerning possible trafficking between Achaean Greece , Crete and Egypt under the Ramessids . |
| 10 | I thought it was n't fair that I should begin to show when I was barely into my fourth month , and I got angry with my clothes , as if it were their fault that I pulled them out of shape . |
| 11 | Our modern parental investment individualistic view would n't allow you to make that error , instead you 'd say you know you 've got ta look at the costs and benefits of the mother too and perhaps there are benefits to mothers in actively testing as it were their offspring , erm rather than just passively er accepting that they 're gon na have to be mothers and gon na have to get on with it and again you see , er I would er and this may have been the big mistake I made last year , er but again I stand by my er view on this and it 's a perfectly defensible one , erm again I think those who say that abortion is unnatural and kind of erm offends against er you know nature , are wrong . |
| 12 | The community is a fictitious body , composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting as it were its members . |
| 13 | Figure 1 A reed warbler feeding a young cuckoo as if it were its own offspring ( Photo : I. Wyllie ) . |
| 14 | A goose which follows a human being round as if it were its parent does not have its sexual behaviour anything like so disturbed ; when it grows up it will court other geese . |
| 15 | It was necessarily disturbed when the United States treated the United Nations as if it were its own exclusive " club " . |
| 16 | She swallowed convulsively , her hand tracing the door as though it were him . |
| 17 | ‘ Yeah , we know it were him , ’ said a woman as she added another bunch of flowers to the hundreds piled on the embankment . |
| 18 | Could n't , no I could n't , I wonder if it were him ? so , she 's my bloody . |
| 19 | You said it were him . |
| 20 | It were them puppies puppies . |
| 21 | Anyway er it were what you write down , you 're supposed to write who you 've been talking to , tt what the occupation is er you , how old they are , female , male regional accent and that 's , if you were born in London that 's your accent you 're using int it ? |
| 22 | Harriet puts her head on Jen 's shoulder , her long straight strange hair fanning across Jen 's breast as if it were her own hair , and her own short , coppery/gingery hair stops standing on end at the ghost in the wood and begins to flow loose . |
| 23 | His wife lay there so limp , so insubstantial , her black hair hanging down like the tail of a whipped animal and one white hand clutching his sleeve as though it were her only hold on life . |
| 24 | ‘ The trouble is she feels as if it were her fault . |
| 25 | A small , terrified child clutching a satchel with both arms as though it were her most prized possession . |
| 26 | On it were her confirmation cross and the farthing Rob had given her soon after they met . |
| 27 | Her breast felt hollow , as if it were her heart she had buried ; but she could move and speak , still . |
| 28 | ‘ I hope you 'll be at the funeral , ’ said Viola in her grand way , as if it were her show and there 'd be cocktails afterwards . |
| 29 | ’ Melissa was about to point out that Angy 's tender heart had not prevented her from flaunting Rick 's ring as if it were her own , nor had she intervened to protect Barney from hurt , but she merely said , ‘ It was enough to make anyone angry . ’ |
| 30 | He glared at her , as if it were her fault she could n't remember . |