Example sentences of "[verb] it [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , more recent sightings by Archbishop Trench in the sixteenth century suggest it was a beast in its own right : |
| 2 | ‘ Then how did you know it was a river stone that killed him ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Please , Rosa , tell me again , about how she walked in the water , but it was a mirror and they looked at her , she did n't know it was a mirror , she thought it was a stream . |
| 4 | You 'd never know it was a refuge . |
| 5 | How did you know it was a brothel ? |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't know it was a matter of taking sides , Joe , ’ Ashdown said with a gentleness that was almost a reprimand . |
| 7 | Mind you , then I did n't know it was a shot . |
| 8 | ‘ How in the world would I know it was a bag of cocaine ? |
| 9 | If you were in a darkened room with a stranger , you would know it was a stranger . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I do n't know how he got out , I mean our road is so difficult anyway , of course there wa , that night there were two , yeah two when them , he had to get out in the morning , but er , I mean he did it , but I expect it was a struggle |
| 12 | When I say it was a Government decision I 'm not speaking politically because whoever had 've won the last election whether it be Liberal Democrats Labour or Conservative all three parties were committed to reorganizing local government . |
| 13 | If I say it was wonderfully exciting , you will wonder when I am going to do it again , and if I say it was a mistake , which it was , you are going to ask me under what circumstances it might not have been a mistake . ’ |
| 14 | He accompanied this with a rude gesture — some say it was a noise , others that he stuck out his tongue , or even that he made a sign with his forearm . |
| 15 | In all honesty I think they are exactly the same as newpaper reports in that if a team wins 3–0 or 4–0 they automatically say it was a trouncing , and then dredge up ‘ facts ’ to evidence their overall assumption . |
| 16 | But as , as I say it was a job at that time and and in fact I 'd never , this was the only factory I had n't fancied , working in was the B M K , and yet I like it the best . |
| 17 | I know this district better than you ever will , and I say it was a neighbourhood crime . |
| 18 | So if you 're saying if say it was a railway where the gradients are very not very steep at all . |
| 19 | And you say it was a disappointment ! ’ |
| 20 | Introducing direct rule had been easy enough ; ending it was a problem . |
| 21 | I acknowledge it was a mistake . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | in the morning but then after the diarrhoea stopped it was a kind of sickness you know ? |
| 24 | After rebuilding it was a Gas Fitters Shop , and at present the ground floor houses the Railway Veterans Club and the second storey contains a gymnasium . |
| 25 | Department of the Environment ministers announced that though they had been advised that the statue was part of the listed building , and that consent was therefore required for its removal , they none the less considered it was a chattel , and would not take enforcement action . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 — ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | My thoughts the leaf stem should never have been there in the first place it was a waste of money . |
| 30 | At seven o'clock on a chilly Saturday evening in November , the shroud of darkness enveloping it was a kindness as far as Captain Roddy Simcox was concerned . |