Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was above me on the rocks , and then it sprang into the darkness behind me . |
| 2 | But it was as nothing to the humiliation which the unions would pour on his government in the last two years of its term . |
| 3 | It was because when I came up it was minus one in the car , cos I got er , oh thanks , I 've got a temperature thing in the car |
| 4 | So It was worth it for the w for the when the war came . |
| 5 | When she finally reached the top she agreed with a young couple from Leeds that it was worth it for the view , which was stupendous in spite of a slight heat haze that hung in the air . |
| 6 | As he opened his eyes and smiled at her strangely , she added , ‘ And it was worth it in the end . |
| 7 | When your income is not much above five or six pounds a week , as it was for me in the seventies , even a tin of dog food is out of the question . |
| 8 | It was for me like the young people out there doing their Licenza Classica . |
| 9 | And the stronger they were , the worse it was for them at the end of the picture . |