Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] it [was/were] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to suggest it was a casual encounter as he stepped from the shadows , but realized at once that his subterfuge was painfully obvious . |
| 2 | He revealed that he 'd been intending to do an act at the Easter Fete but had abandoned it because he 'd decided it was a load of rubbish . |
| 3 | He 'd said it was a surrender to the inevitable because her actress-mother was the famous one and he kept getting called Mr Williams anyway . |
| 4 | He 'd said it was a natural voice , one that did n't have to be nursed or conserved or constantly disciplined . |
| 5 | He had heard so much about it from the Queen Mother — who as a child had been there every year — and from so many other people that he had felt it was a part of his education that was sorely lacking . |
| 6 | When he called them and turned smiling to her she realized why he had said it was a certainty . |
| 7 | Mr Paisley was out of the country yesterday but his son , Ian , said that , when his father first heard of the bequest , he had thought it was a hoax . |
| 8 | He despised them all anyway , especially Sylvester , because they had lost interest in the only good idea they had ever come up with — not , of course , at the time that he had admitted it was a good idea . |
| 9 | He said even if he had known it was an aneurysm , it may have been totally inoperable and would have carried a mortality rate of 80% . |