Example sentences of "[verb] it [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If we 'd won it was 2nd place . |
2 | did n't know it was two parts , till I and I thought what a funny way to end , I mean are they dead |
3 | And a fellow said to me about two ye , two to three years ago I expect it was two telegraph people up that pole out an just outside of my gate and he 's still there and I walk along the gate and he turned round to me he say you 're a lucky man ! |
4 | They say it was great fun — and thought the able bodied that disabled people can contribute just as much — and sometimes more — as others . |
5 | And a and also , I mean , it was , and it was a Panasonic one this , erm what you do , if you were doing a jacket top potato , you er would weigh the potato and , and then erm put in the weight , say it was six ounces , and all you do then is press erm jacket potato , you do n't have to put any time , it automatically does it for the time . |
6 | if you saw something where , I do n't know , say it was two glasses and then we could buy two as well and |
7 | They , they put , we go to er , a little shop in , only a little shop and they have to got into er one at Croydon every Thursday , and he get 's , the manager , he get 's the er , driver 's to come out of head office , and what staff , and he always buys it in bulk and he , he still buys say it 's coca cola say it was ten pence a can |
8 | say it was any thing to bother about |
9 | Some say it was seven tons of meat in a thick black hide |
10 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
11 | He was tall and pale and when Nicholson shook his hand he found it was icy cold . |
12 | There were occasions , also , when the assistant on duty would forget the time , and suddenly realise it was two minutes to the hour and she 'd forgotten to do the observation . |
13 | Her lawyers believed it was highest settlement made in an English divorce court . |
14 | Mr Onanuga , 31 , has told friends he naively went along with the story because Mr Newton believed it was good publicity for Thresher and his own branch , and he did not see how it could harm anyone . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | If she stood firm , there was nothing he could do , she told herself — though whether she believed it was another matter . |
17 | A new name soon to be engraved in the swindon town hall of fame is centre-half Adrian Whitbread … a five hundred thousand pound signing from Orient Adrian was on the County Ground pitch for the first time today to line-up with his new team mates for the annual pre season picture … and as you 'd expect it was all smiles |
18 | Mr Sullivan says it was this incident that prompted him to stage the break in . |
19 | Mark Arhens says it was hard work . |
20 | I imagine it was all part of the same reaction . |
21 | I read the hands of the clock wrongly , thought it was 5.10 , and awoke with a jump , believing it was five minutes before the start of the marathon . |
22 | And while I continued to make my contribution , I really did feel it was high time I started looking out for number one . |
23 | He ha scored ten in thirty minutes before he was hit on the temple of his helmet by a ball from Marshall that lifted sharply ; with his vision blurred it was several days before he left hospital , and he did not play again all season . |
24 | Then , remembering it was five minutes past tot time , he ran down the ladder to the well deck , and away to the spare-crew mess . |
25 | The archers loosed blind in the darkness , but could do so only once without imperilling their friends , for after the shock of meeting it was stark hand to hand work without any daylight art about it , first a hacking and swinging ahead at any flesh that moved , then body to body fumbling where everyone panted out words in his own tongue to be safe from his comrades , and even swords were of little use . |
26 | I tell you what when you packed up smoking it was last cigarette you |
27 | So what , what I 'll shall do it was fourteen pounds no what I 'll do is the whole amount and if she says any thing I say . |
28 | Failure to sell it was one reason why Mountleigh went into receivership — because of concern that the centre was built on contaminated land . |
29 | 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 ! |
30 | Last night I had no idea how to pronounce it and assumed it was pure Quechua . |