Example sentences of "[adv] it [was/were] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it was all over the place . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps it was all for the best you lost the baby , Helen , ’ her mother said when Helen went to visit her . |
| 3 | If only it was n't for the cold that nagged at us constantly . |
| 4 | So it was not to the White House but the Treasury Building next door that the embassy car delivered Maxim at three o'clock that afternoon . |
| 5 | So it was probably about the nineteen what early seventies coffin making would stop on Sanday . |
| 6 | So it was all on the last set … in the last five matches between these two Lizzie Jelfs has won all five … |
| 7 | And so it was all along the line , from Telnitz in the south , right the way to the Olmütz road , where the plain rose into the foothills of the mountains to the north ; and after he had disappeared into the tumult and light , neither Thiercelin nor Epitot spoke for a long time . |
| 8 | So it was off to the department stores of central London with a LASMO cheque to kit himself out with warm and waterproof clothes as a matter of some urgency . |
| 9 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 10 | So it was back to the hooks in the faith that something must turn up . |
| 11 | So it was back to the drawing board , undo the back and reknit it . |
| 12 | None the less it was not until the 1960s that American school libraries really came into their own as multi-media centres . |
| 13 | Among the developed industrial countries generally it was mainly in the former communist societies of Eastern Europe that the repressive functions of the state were still prominent against a similar background of economic planning and provision of welfare services . |
| 14 | Could be you could have all sorts of things sweetheart We I bet you we 'll come out and it 'll be right opposite us instead of missing it do you know what I mean still it was further up the road than the junction but the bus did n't seem to be having any trouble . |
| 15 | Now it was up to the Marine Commandoes . |
| 16 | He would not , himself , have mentioned the matter , but now it was out in the open it would provide something to talk about . |
| 17 | If you go back erm or let's go back to the second half of the seventeenth century , that 's always a good time to go to erm when erm well it was just after the English revolution , just after the English civil war , the Charles the First had been executed . |
| 18 | you see and I 'm glad I did n't miss it , I 'm glad I went through all what I did and , and this particular raid , you see , the siren went and they said a telegraph office read , you see , an and then I thought I 'll go to the back door and I went to the , well it was actually on the front of the station and I went to the front of the station and there was this plane swooping down like that and of course , you see , the bombs did n't fall down straight like that but they went as the plane went and they knocked down a row of houses at the end of the road . |
| 19 | She said well it was down to the last two she said , I had a choice between a red and green cushion or a fitness test . |
| 20 | Here it was well worth the buffeted just for the views . |
| 21 | All aluminium saucepans including those from Buckingham Palace here collected in July nineteen forty but unfortunately it was not of the right grade and so housewives then suffered for the rest of the war and having to cook with inferior pans . |
| 22 | And then it was on at the Theatre Royal . |
| 23 | Then it was on to the Salvation Army old people 's home where one resident remarked : ‘ How beautiful you are . |
| 24 | Then it was on to the chapel , where work from other faculties and departments was on show . |
| 25 | And if he had meted out to Elise the same unpredictable treatment , the same highs and lows , then it was n't beyond the bounds of possibility that he was the kind of man who made a girl , driven beyond all logic , all reason , decide that life without him was no longer worth living . |
| 26 | The mortaring continued for about ten minutes , then it was back to the orchard and comparative safety of the slit trench . |
| 27 | Then it was back to the hall for afternoon Sunday School , and a public praise meeting . |
| 28 | Yet it was not beyond the power of reason and foresight to know that the days of the Indian Empire were numbered , if not in years , still in decades : the best and the wisest of the British in India had known and said it from the beginning . |
| 29 | Yet it was not until the 1920s that all of New Bradwell had piped water . |
| 30 | The EEC was attempting to do within its transition stage of fifteen years what Benelux did in three : and yet it was only at the end of its transitional period that Benelux had had to face up to serious difficulties in seeking to achieve its ambitions . |