Example sentences of "[vb past] it [was/were] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he never idealised it or pretended it was anything but ‘ the rude rags of nature ’ , he saw things in it to which Crabbe was completely blind or hostile , and he felt their loss when change and ‘ improvement ’ came : |
| 2 | I assumed it was someone in the police or customs . ’ |
| 3 | Intending not to forget her car again , however , Fabia dipped her spoon into her pudding , sampled it , and discovered it was something of a rather superb plum pie , if different from what she knew . |
| 4 | He would be a world-champion tiddly-winks player too if he ever decided it was something worth taking up . |
| 5 | That meant it was mine for keeps . |
| 6 | I knew it was something along those lines . |
| 7 | ‘ From the moment you arrived , ’ Maddox said , ‘ I knew it was something like that . ’ |
| 8 | Jesus , I knew it was something like that . |
| 9 | I knew it was something like that . |
| 10 | The pain that tugged at the muscles of his stomach and chest was so intimately hurtful that he knew it was nothing but useless unspent emotion . |
| 11 | Oh , we all knew it was him with his stout legs and big arse , but everyone became involved in the pantomime . |
| 12 | Father Martin knew it was him of course , had to . |
| 13 | He made sure I knew it was him by flicking on his interior light and waving me towards him . |
| 14 | ‘ I knew it was summat of the sort . ’ |
| 15 | Christina knew it was none of her business — Martin was a free agent — but it disturbed her somehow to see him being so hotly pursued by a determined young woman . |
| 16 | Kirkley thought it was something worth looking into . |
| 17 | ‘ Of course at first I just thought it was someone from a boat that had been driven in by the weather . |