Example sentences of "[vb past] it be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But ye promised it was the last , ’ Winnie said , the drunken Rab ; and she could have pulled her hair and needed a pee but was frightened to leave Rab alone . |
| 2 | Whatever created it is an aberration . |
| 3 | And also you 'll like it because the cardinal who designed it was a practical joker and built in all sorts of extremely infantile jokes so that he could spray water onto his innocent friends while they were eating their dinner or trying to watch little masques . |
| 4 | Clearly visible as an up-lighter caught it was the strong profile of Martin Ward , with the Dyson family a few steps behind . |
| 5 | Nutty remembered supposing that Nails would hit a bullseye every time if he pretended it was a policeman he was shooting at , and wondered how she was going to reconcile that . |
| 6 | She pretended not to see the light in his eyes ; she pretended it was the wind going up her skirt that made her suddenly shiver with apprehension . |
| 7 | Sandy Island is incredible — just two miles out from Sandy Ground it is a tiny mound of dazzling white sand with room for ten coconut trees and a bar run by Neville and his friends . |
| 8 | But that 's OK because at least he never mentioned it was a mess until after I 'd had it cut , and tidied it up . |
| 9 | in the morning but then after the diarrhoea stopped it was a kind of sickness you know ? |
| 10 | The Olympic contenders may not be here but that has , 't stopped it being a record entry for the regatta with 498 entries . |
| 11 | A dog found it 's a black one found on Third Avenue at Carlton and it 's a black collie it 's young and it has no collar on . |
| 12 | But she found it was a different school with different faces . |
| 13 | And the mono thing worked ; we found it was a format we could really use well , so for the time being we 're carrying on down the path . |
| 14 | I also found it was a very practical fabric for a small boy . |
| 15 | He put up his hands and found it was a long strand of seaweed . |
| 16 | When I first found this I thought , Oh , it 's a sort of truck , well , well , and then I walked up here and I found it was a truck with — ’ |
| 17 | Unfolding the notice , she found it was a call to Italian women to demonstrate at the NATO base where the camp had been set up . |
| 18 | Yeah , we certainly found it was a . |
| 19 | When it came to her turn to scramble ashore , she found it was no easy task to move the balance beam which swung the gates open . |
| 20 | When she awoke , rubbing at a rather stiff neck , feeling hungry , but better than she expected , she found it was the middle of the morning and sunshine was streaming into every corner of the cottage . |
| 21 | She paced the garden ; she found it was an exact square . |
| 22 | When a mis-fire occurred it was the practice to clear out the hole down to the powder , insert the pricker , and again stem the hole . |
| 23 | Not that there is anything to lose by keeping the door open , but really I believed it is every man for himself . |
| 24 | He believed it 's a way of ensuring only the best survive , as they would in the wild . |
| 25 | Marx condemned capitalism because it frustrated human potential and self-actualization , but believed it was a necessary stage in human dialectical development . |
| 26 | He believed it was a kind of first-aid package from a life-raft which had failed to inflate . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought — believed it was a passing affair … ’ |
| 28 | When she saw a curtain move in one of the palace windows , she believed it was a signal of love from the King . |
| 29 | Er certainly Forest believed it was and Ward believed it was a free kick you could tell by the expression on his face . |
| 30 | Mr Constantin believed it was no accident and escaped to France . |