Example sentences of "[vb past] it [be] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got hold of the picture , found it was just Elvis snipped from a magazine , confronted the girl , and she conceded , accompanying him to the dance : ‘ I guess I 've had a connection with him ever since , ’ he says . |
| 2 | er in Spain , because we reckoned it was only donkey that went in that went into the er burro as they call it , went into the went into the soup , you know with the beans and er er er various types of lentils and so on . |
| 3 | Yeah , I guessed it was certainly vineyards , I 'm you know , quick like that , you know . |
| 4 | However , in the battle which followed it was certainly Rodrigo who helped turn the tide of events for Sancho . |
| 5 | Bergen yeah , I heard it was really shit . |
| 6 | But people decided it was only inferiors who ate alpaca meat . |
| 7 | Well I I was in the east end and of course where my mum and my aunt worked it was mostly sort of cleaning and scrubbing and charring and turning mangles in the back garden and all sorts of things . |
| 8 | At Challow in Oxfordshire , deep floodwater meant it was strictly snails pace only for motorist . |
| 9 | It had been in his possession for quite a while and Broomhead felt it was about time he sold the thing . |
| 10 | She felt it was about time too , but Patrick Kelly was dangerous for her . |
| 11 | for her and I knew it was only hardboard , well knowing your dad I knew he would n't put |
| 12 | She knew it was only seconds . |
| 13 | I did n't think it was all subjects , I thought it was just history |
| 14 | I thought it was just Rachel and Hattie . |
| 15 | Well I thought it was quite farce like . |
| 16 | I was a Sunday School teacher erm when I was in my secondary school and I wondered what God would want me to do with my life when I left school and I thought maybe he wants me to be a missionary and I thought it was only teachers and doctors that could be missionaries I was wrong was n't I ? |
| 17 | Look , I thought it was only Jenner you wanted to know about . |
| 18 | I always thought it was only Canada that do it with |
| 19 | We thought it was about time Shevardnadze was given a platform . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought it was about time I made another . ’ |
| 21 | Maisie Dougall had been listening to her friends going on and she thought it was about time she made a contribution . |
| 22 | It did funny things to her insides — she thought it was about time to study the menu . |
| 23 | ‘ We thought it was about time it came again . ’ |
| 24 | Once a good director , now a cheerful but notorious lush , he seldom worked nowadays and when he did it was only television . |
| 25 | Had it been only Ben he had seen , or had he been able to look out , however briefly , on the world of the future ; her world ? |
| 26 | Me sister 's got one the same and I said cor I like your ring I 'll never afford that and she said it 's only Argos sixty nine bleeding quid , I thought it 's fine . |
| 27 | We , we , we said it 's about time they grew potatoes in that field |
| 28 | I said it 's about time somebody started on these kids I mean the been a television programme this morning about people living in their homes afraid of going out because they 're getting molested and and robbed , and one thing and another ! |
| 29 | I said it 's about time you started looking after yourself and not bothering about ! |
| 30 | The medium said it was definitely spirits and something to do with Italians and recommended that some Italian sage should be burnt in the studio . |