Example sentences of "it [was/were] [conj] [pron] [be] the " in BNC.

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1 In the beginning , okay believed in and or whatever you wan na call it , but it also believed in other gods as well , except he was the chief god , he was number one god as it were and he 's the one you got to follow .
2 No no i if it was if it was the likes of a say for instance , and I owned the book , it was my black book , and I ran up a hundred pounds on it .
3 it was because it was the wee one , but that 's her
4 Maybe it was because it was the last school day of the week ; maybe it was because the house was especially tidy that day ; maybe it was because I was in the wrong house , at the wrong time , in the wrong Galaxy .
5 If he lost out to Jeremy Irons , his fans said , it was because he was the victim of a feminist-puritanical cabal .
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