Example sentences of "[vb base] it [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | They say it was great fun — and thought the able bodied that disabled people can contribute just as much — and sometimes more — as others . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | if you saw something where , I do n't know , say it was two glasses and then we could buy two as well and |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | say it was any thing to bother about |
| 7 | Some say it was seven tons of meat in a thick black hide |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I imagine it was all part of the same reaction . |
| 10 | Police suspect it was some form of protest . |
| 11 | He subsequently er went to work at the Berlick in latter years and , and this man was just sweeping-up at the Berlick and I could n't believe it cos he was so high up in the technology in the war and he 'd be a dental mechanic and he 'd come down to just being a sweeper-up , and he used to show me the pay packets he 'd got in the war and you know it was fantastic money even , even by today 's standards this is going back fifteen years |
| 12 | I know it was long time ago , but can you now possibly recall where the information came from ? |
| 13 | you know it was small boats . |
| 14 | I know it was last year I was really annoyed . |
| 15 | But I remember the train and the guy with the personal stereo , and I know it was just chance that we met . |
| 16 | At the time ( I know it was seven years ago because that 's when I left for Edmonton where I met Michael ) I would always make sure I read the foreign page to see what was happening in Danu . |
| 17 | As I remember it was one morning a little while after my father and Miss Kenton had joined the staff , I had been in my pantry , sitting at the table going through my paperwork , when I heard a knock on my door . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose it was that meeting . |
| 19 | er Andrea has even , I suppose it was one day last week she was happened to speak about ooh she said I was only thinking d the other day she said I was long the longest with Richie R Richie |
| 20 | I suppose it was one way of ensuring that staff returned to the fold , but I 'm not so sure that it was a good idea as far as the staff was concerned . |
| 21 | It was a straw bonnet , biscuit-coloured and it was worked round the edges with red ; I suppose it was thin cord ; but it had red round it and red on the top . |
| 22 | Well , you keep playing do n't you , it 's a ninety minute game , and then , as we 've said erm I believe it was two goals in the last four minutes , was it ? |
| 23 | " I believe it was one Arthur Pascoe , ma'am . |
| 24 | They believe it was deliberateley set upon by lurcher dogs . |
| 25 | They reckon it was all Quigley 's fault . |
| 26 | ‘ I bet it was that gang from Elgin Avenue . ’ |
| 27 | Bet it was thirsty work anyway was n't it ? |
| 28 | Police fear it was same attacker who last month locked a man in his car boot , kidnapped his girlfriend from a Winchester beauty spot and raped her . |
| 29 | I mean it was fifty pence . |
| 30 | And er I mean it was all luck everything that sort of happened to me that night anyway I mean it it was n't so lucky for other people but I suppose most survivors have their their tale or so . |