Example sentences of "[prep] it [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below it was a second and then a third such stone . |
| 2 | The vigil was very moving but some elements of it were a bit odd . |
| 3 | The absence of it was a letdown . |
| 4 | ca can I just say that the introduction of the Choices booklet need a real bit of it was a bit |
| 5 | I think er she said some of it was a bit you know slow and dragging for them |
| 6 | And you would take this book and you 'd put a hard piece of it was a kind of a a cardboard that would n't absorb water I 've forgotten what the thing was made of . |
| 7 | The first he knew of it was a warning call from high above where he saw the angry silhouette of a golden eagle stooping . |
| 8 | she was in an Orion but the front end of it was a Escort |
| 9 | The miming aspect of it was a drag but I was really glad to be on there to dispense with all those horrid people . |
| 10 | The centre of it was a plastic mould in which the metal of an automatic gleamed snugly , The upper volume I had to prise loose from the middle one . |
| 11 | Town growth , too , as William Hutton 's history of Birmingham indicates , threatened space , especially as much of it was a matter of infilling within existing boundaries . |
| 12 | It was a gold chain , and on the end of it was a picture of a very beautiful woman . |
| 13 | But , or because same thing like it were a couple of years ago , with finances . |
| 14 | Sounds like it were a robbery . |
| 15 | ‘ The water was moving like it was a river , ’ said police sergeant John McKee . |
| 16 | It felt so good tucked there , so snug and firm under his armpit like it was a part of him . |
| 17 | Mum and Dad were all tight and not saying much and Annie just chatted away to me in the back and Simon kept licking at the suitcase like it was a bone or summat . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know why we were making the damn thing — everybody was acting like it was a pain in the ass . |
| 19 | We are all standing there with our hands on that table like it was a boat we were trying to launch in the river , so little Darius at the head looks up at us both and asks , ‘ Are you two gon na have this kiss or not ? ’ |
| 20 | If it was something he had n't seen before , he 'd bend over it like it was a babby , and in half an hour he 'd know that machine inside out . ’ |
| 21 | Bill takes a Coke , rips the ring pull cleanly off like painful bandaging and drinks it down in one , like it was a glass of water . |
| 22 | The music was loud and the killers were laughing like it was a picnic . |
| 23 | That 's not fresh , that 's not cool — they just usin' it like it was a slang word ’ |
| 24 | They just usin' it like it was a slang word . ’ |
| 25 | If you 've ever been to one of their live performances , you will find the band , yourself and the whole of the crowd jumping around like it was a punk reunion . |
| 26 | I feel safe enough to bounce the truth off him like it was a joke . |
| 27 | He said it like it was a joke to be shared , but I winced , knowing what was coming . |
| 28 | Underneath it was a map of London . |
| 29 | Beneath it was a quote from Willy Brandt , elder statesman of European democratic socialism : ‘ Now grows together what belongs together . ’ |
| 30 | Beneath it were a photograph of a beaming Ruby Dobby and a few hundred words about her having a psychic revelation that Sniffy Wilson was near London and trying to make contact with a friend . |