Example sentences of "[vb base] it [was/were] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fuck her I was drinking stout on Saturday night and normally do n't do it because we 've simply no money ! on the vodka and say it was n't even enough to buy a carry out but do n't say it unless she says she was here ! |
| 2 | When you say it was n't as effective , in what what sense was n't it as effective . |
| 3 | Charged at Horseferry Road Magistrates Court in January 1989 with dishonestly inducing Harrods to forego payment , she heard the magistrate Eric Crowther say it was not entirely her fault . |
| 4 | As I say it was very very difficult in those days , you had to satisfy the Traffic Commissions . |
| 5 | But I tell you what though that erm ice rink place it was n't half full ! |
| 6 | In the first place it was not quite so expensive . |
| 7 | So , anyway , I hope it was n't too distracting for him , and that he was able to pick out , erm , the information that he wanted . |
| 8 | I just hope it was more often . ’ |
| 9 | I hope it was all right . |
| 10 | By half-term I weighed seven stone nine pounds , and I suspect it was only then that I became weight-conscious in the literal sense . |
| 11 | I know it was n't very witty but it certainly galvanised my Dad . |
| 12 | erm we I mean we , we , we 've looked at the , the peasant tenant relationship erm and my , my opinion is that basically you know it was n't quite as bad as everyone 's made out erm but al okay we 're saying that warlords were , were very imperialistic and they were a huge fact to be considered but in Hunan and within the south erm eastern region say |
| 13 | I know it was n't too bad last year erm I think it 's either at a Wednesday or Thursday . |
| 14 | We liked it there , when we were kids , though I suppose it was n't that brilliant , looking back . |
| 15 | I suppose it was n't really that much of a morning by the time you got home again . |
| 16 | I suppose it was n't quite like that . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But all in all I suppose it was n't as bad as I thought it was going to be , ’ he said . |
| 18 | When she went downstairs to make herself some toast it was still very dark , although it was eight o'clock and she could hear the children talking in their room . |
| 19 | ‘ I bet it was n't as bad as all that ! ’ |
| 20 | You know every time you go it was too early , too early right back . |
| 21 | I did actually quote about one of the youngsters yesterday making the point about you know , it 's all on television , there 's too much of it , I mean it was n't actually quite as blatant a comment as that , the point is made was while it 's on every channel , all the time |
| 22 | So er I mean it was n't much good if you wa wanted to go out with anybody . |
| 23 | I mean it was always there as a defence mechanism so you |
| 24 | The recession — it looks as though there is a glimmer of light , but I was on the continent a couple of three weeks ago when the mortar attack took place at Number Ten and the reaction of people I met I mean it was much more marked there than it was here , or seemed to be . |
| 25 | So what we would have been I mean it were n't just at the bottom of the street . |
| 26 | I mean it were n't so bad for us because we were dancing but Gordon does n't er dance , you know , so |
| 27 | I think it was somewhere else . |
| 28 | Erm er I think it was n't really a problem . |
| 29 | Also had a spell on the motorway for about er I think it was just over a year . |
| 30 | No I think it was , I think it was just over two hundred on , but I do n't think it was |