Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] it was the [adj -est] " in BNC.

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1	I figured it was the best way to keep the interaction between the guitar and the lyrics , which is the whole point for me .
2	I thought it was the greatest adventure of our age .
3	When I left there I thought it was the happiest day of my life , but it was n't .
4	I told Diana [ Vreeland ] and she thought it was the chicest thing she ever heard .
5	She said it was the best one she 'd ever done .
6	‘ When we did a signing session at the Rough Trade shop , we thought it was the biggest ball hop ever ! ’ cackles Niall .
7	When we won it was the biggest race .
8	Well I suppose th they felt it was the cheapest way of , of , of having them .
9	‘ I went away and left him ’ , now even if they went , went away and left and , because they had to bring the children home , or if they went away and left him because they knew it was the best thing for everyone concerned , because the foreign office wants as many people , we all need as many people to get out of the area as possible ; their guilt will be huge .
10	Children would normally go to London when they ran away from home , because they thought it was the best place to go to get a job , and where they could sleep easily .
11	Yet he realized it was the best he was likely to get from Nora and that , on balance , he would do well to think of it as ‘ Nora 's apology , ’ accept it as such , and hope that these aberrations in her behaviour would die away .
12	But he insisted it was the best way to banish the bitterness of the recent past .
13	He said it was the best thing since Bethlehem . ’
14	He 'd got all the er information about it when he came and he said it was the best type of covering if you 've got dogs or cats .
15	When the company indicated that it considered it was the fairest situation that could be achieved in the circumstances , the union representatives said that they noted the company 's position .

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