Example sentences of "[vb past] it [be] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Albert looked at his watch and found it was only six , but thought it gratuitous to say so . |
| 2 | A glance at her watch showed it was barely ten o'clock , yet she felt wide awake and as impatient to see her love as any Juliet . |
| 3 | When I started it was about two hundred people per ton and now we produce five tons an hour with three people . |
| 4 | Last time I saw it was about 1976 . |
| 5 | I knew it was definitely one of them |
| 6 | Oh no er , no I knew it was only one night nearly since he |
| 7 | To tell you the truth , I thought it was probably one of those Sardinian beggars with their bagpipes . |
| 8 | You thought it was still six did n't you ? |
| 9 | I thought it was only ten past twelve . |
| 10 | I thought it was about fifty thousand . |
| 11 | I say I thought it was about nine pound odd . |
| 12 | I thought it was about ten years . |
| 13 | I thought it was about ten years |
| 14 | Just started to eat the fig roll and realized it was n't one of them . |
| 15 | when Mikie was here and you were doing nights , and he called us one day and I said it 's not six o'clock yet he said you 're |
| 16 | said it 's just one big joke it did n't go in |
| 17 | I said it 's only three years , and off I went . |
| 18 | Was I think he said it were about twenty six pound a week for that time you see ? |
| 19 | ‘ He always said it was neither one thing nor the other . |
| 20 | They said it was about three houses up on Pukea . |
| 21 | The oven clock said it was only five to eight . |
| 22 | The registration plates said it was only two years old but I stopped believing registration plates about two years before I gave up waiting for the tooth fairy . |