Example sentences of "[vb past] it [be] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That the club marked its centenary in 1990 is unconnected with arthritic administration , rather that for many years Shildon believed it was two years later . |
| 2 | For a moment he thought there was a double meaning in her words , but he dismissed the thought when he recognised it was one of her usual openings to draw him into conversation . |
| 3 | Well this , this was a letter of the , granted it was eighty nine , but I mean this paragraph just said , you know , if we , does say that , you know , if we established a , a demand , and I do n't see why we should n't have a bash at . |
| 4 | He went past the bo , my brother wanted dropped off , it was a one way street he went the way down came back up and parked and by the time he come up and parked it was thirty P extra ! |
| 5 | They confirmed it was 32 per cent bigger all the way around than the plans allowed for — and now councillors have ordered the Foys to pull down the house , claiming it was built too big deliberately . |
| 6 | well , well Vicky reckoned it was ten hours from Calais |
| 7 | I guessed it was one of my circle of private informants on the Continent — the people even you do n't know about . |
| 8 | He could n't tell , but guessed it was one of the team . |
| 9 | From the shape of its lights I guessed it was one of the small Peugeots . |
| 10 | McLeish asked whereabouts and discovered it was three roads away from his own flat , so they complained enjoyably to each other about the local council . |
| 11 | I heard it was six weeks . |
| 12 | Okay so you decided on your scale and you decided it was nine centimetres along there okay and f the way to do it fairly accurately is just draw a line that 's a bit longer than nine . |
| 13 | But when I started it was fifty-two and a half hours a week yes . |
| 14 | ‘ My first priority was to sign an organising scrum-half because I felt it was one of Widnes ’ weak-nesses , ’ revealed Larder . |
| 15 | I knew it was 2.06 a.m. because the bedside clock told me so in orange digits big enough to divert aircraft if the curtains had been open . |
| 16 | He knew it was 10 because the brickies had gone for their breakfast and he smelt bacon . |
| 17 | last I knew it was five pence a year . |
| 18 | I knew it was 2 midlands clubs , and that West Brom were involved … did nt realise it was stoke tho . |
| 19 | I thought it were one of them , you know when you go in hospital and you 're off work and that ? |
| 20 | I thought it were one of them , watch what you 're doing , I thought it were one of them but it 's not . |
| 21 | I thought it were one of them , watch what you 're doing , I thought it were one of them but it 's not . |
| 22 | Thought it were three . |
| 23 | I thought it were three when they went to school . |
| 24 | I thought it were twenty sixth . |
| 25 | At first Sergeant Bramble thought it was one of the latest Atco motor-mowers but it seemed to be coming from above them . |
| 26 | At first she thought it was one of the old ones and she almost wiped it out . |
| 27 | it was forty five degrees so you thought it was one , but the scale was two to one . |
| 28 | I thought it was one of them . |
| 29 | Oh I thought it was one of them fifty pence ones . |
| 30 | and I said oh there 's Benjy , there must be something , you know , I thought it was one of the kids that had jumped or something because the little one had always climbing and jumping off the wall , breaking his leg you know the weak one , and the next minute saw the ambulance outside , but he must of been , it must of been too massive to be able to do anything cos he was n't breathing that bit you see |