Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was right there and you know and |
| 2 | It was rather indifferently that he described to her his walk , his find , his leading of the police to the spot . |
| 3 | It was shortly afterwards that she married the bookseller . ’ |
| 4 | And she had never had much time for Angela Cartwright , who , when it came to Grunte , tended to run with the hare , though it was plain enough that she had been put out by Grunte 's placing Hyacinth on his right hand and had agreed with Carole afterwards that they would have little trouble finding the necessary fifty signatures . |
| 5 | specially for Easter and it was just exactly like you said . |
| 6 | It was just then that I heard it ; a small knocking sound coming from the direction of the cupboard . |
| 7 | ‘ It was already here when we moved in and to start with I thought it would make the room seem too gloomy , but it 's grown on me and I really like it now , ’ says Mary Jane , who works part-time as a physiotherapist . |
| 8 | The joke was that it was sometime later that we learnt the whole affair had been staged by Basil who had been in earlier to go through his in-tray and deal with the important memos , etc . |
| 9 | It was no longer that he had been a member of the murder gang , but that he had presided over a meeting of UDA officers in order to plan it . |
| 10 | But as it was no longer where she had left it , then it must have done , unless someone had shot into Rose Cottage and stolen it while Cassie had been sitting on the loo . |
| 11 | Funnily enough — now this makes me think a bit , although it was probably just because he liked the name — he did call his daughter Hannah . |
| 12 | ‘ It was probably only when you got outside that you realised how much circumstances looked against you . |
| 13 | It was Joan who told me of her death , and it was probably then that I wrote to your father and we started to exchange Christmas cards . |
| 14 | It was near here that he had found the little white orchid . |
| 15 | It was much later that I realized my subconscious tendency towards preferring complicated solutions , merely to demonstrate my clever mental logic . |
| 16 | It was quite simply that she had wanted to be with him . |
| 17 | Because it was before just before we moved the offices but it 's kicking around somewhere in an envelope with my name on the front of it but where I would n't know . |
| 18 | It was so long since she had been to a party like this . |
| 19 | It was so long since he 'd wanted someone like this . |
| 20 | ‘ I have n't got it , ’ he said , and it was so long since he 'd last spoken that the first words came hoarse and harsh , like the sound of some animal . |
| 21 | It was so long since he had taken an interest in anything . |
| 22 | That 's with me , seeing that it was so long before it was diagnosed , that 's why my feet and hands are still paralysed . |
| 23 | ‘ A week or so after I got back it was still there so I went to a doctor and said I might have picked up a parasite . |
| 24 | Erm next day it was still there although he 'd phoned the police . |
| 25 | it was still there when I took |
| 26 | It was still there when I took Jackie 's parcel to her and it wa I , I think I did n't look out the , the window till about five o'clock and it had gone then . |
| 27 | She opened her eyes again , not remembering closing them to shut out the blueness , but it was still there and her mind was spiked with pain . |
| 28 | She really did detest his mockery , for it was there again as he drawled , ‘ Brainy as well as beautiful ! ’ |
| 29 | No , because er I always put it down to the fact that most of our takings were in coin , it was very seldom that you had a pound note , you possibly had a ten pound note in those days but most of it was coinage and the cash when it was married up , was put into steel bound wooden boxes . |
| 30 | Looking around the bedroom , she saw that it was almost exactly as it had been in the photograph , although now there was a book open and face downwards on the patchwork quilt . |