Example sentences of "it was [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd come across that and used that intravenously and thought well I really enjoy this and at the time the people who I knew were breaking into chemists and things , they used to come across very powerful substances , diamorphine , crystallised cocaine , morphine , that whole range of opiates and also amphetamines , black bombers and all the rest of it and then opium became more available on the streets and it was round about the same price as cannabis was at the time … . |
| 2 | It was over in a few seconds . |
| 3 | so I decided I 'd have a go in a factory , aha , and I come in it was over in the other place , the noise was unbelievable , really unbelievable . |
| 4 | Then it was on to a local botanical gardens to record the ‘ sound bites ’ . |
| 5 | it was on at a reasonable volume . |
| 6 | If it was up to the Labour Party it 'd be halved in two . |
| 7 | And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step |
| 8 | The debtor was prima facie in the wrong and the creditor in the right , and it was up to the former to extricate himself from the charge to which he had laid himself open . |
| 9 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 10 | Mr Eggar , Michael Heseltine 's secretary , said it was up to the local management to press the case for the pit to stay open to the independent consultants reviewing the pit closures . |
| 11 | The scene , a stag-party 's post-pub , pre-dancing meal , was not going well : it was up to the fourteenth take , and the continuity man was looking frazzled . |
| 12 | Now it was up to the Marine Commandoes . |
| 13 | Unfortunately the price of the prototype was so high that it was out of the financial reach of the archaeological community . |
| 14 | It is a commemoration and ensures that people remember the event because it was out of the ordinary , and special . |
| 15 | It was out of the 1909 Budget proposals that the crisis originally arose and it was already , at that time , well established that financial affairs were the peculiar province of the House of Commons . |
| 16 | It was out with the old and in with the new for the start of the speedway season in Swindon . |
| 17 | IT was out with the old and in with the new and despite the result , Darlington manager Ray Hankin still found much to praise about Quakers ' performance after another home defeat sent them closer to the Fourth Division . |
| 18 | The short pole was now out of the question so it was out on the long pole . |
| 19 | After a leisurely meal it was out into the sun-drenched streets again , replete and relaxed , in boisterous good-natured company , for an excellent coffee and a cigar . |
| 20 | It was out in the open now , her thoughts of that last hour as she had kept her lonely vigil . |
| 21 | It was out in the open now and she was able to look him in the face again , all pretence finished . |
| 22 | After 1945 productivity growth soared to as much as 4% a year , but by the mid-1970s it was back on the historical , 2% , trendline . |
| 23 | It was back to the 2nd XI after that , but the memory will tingle for a while yet . |
| 24 | It was back to the same old theme . |
| 25 | After just half an hour in the pool , it was back to the troubled waters of the Foreign Office . |
| 26 | But it surpised him to learn just how revolutionary it was back in the 1940's . |
| 27 | happier when it was back in the old feet and inches . |
| 28 | Yet it was down to a collective lack of desire , which was the problem against Watford . ’ |
| 29 | They managed to average 28 mph ; that 's some going , down the hill towards Welland they touched 60 , up the hill into Great Malvern it was down to a running pace . |
| 30 | 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 . |