Example sentences of "[vb past] it was [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem SAVE faced was that it had been so disfigured by later alterations that many people doubted it was of sufficient interest to merit saving . |
| 2 | I looked at my watch and found it was after eleven o'clock , which meant nothing really . |
| 3 | When the orchestra reassembled it was at full strength and they played Richard Strauss 's Tone Poem ‘ Heldenleben ’ more or less from start to finish . |
| 4 | I went to a local DIY store and picked out a can of own-brand paint which stated it was for exterior decoration . |
| 5 | McGregor , who had been approached by a worried neighbour , admitted making use of the computer but claimed it was on legitimate police business . |
| 6 | When we talked it was like two people playing with a ball : sometimes it went into the goal , sometimes it grazed the post , but most of the time it went high in the air and missed completely . |
| 7 | And the last time you wore it was with that mac , remember that mac ? |
| 8 | She knew it was with good reason that she had brought her papers back across the lake that day . |
| 9 | I never knew it was like that . |
| 10 | ‘ I never knew it was like that , ’ murmured Juliet . |
| 11 | It seemed that people thought it was about kinky sex ; at best it was taken as the onset of senility . |
| 12 | That 's what I thought it was at first but when he said it the next time it sounded different , it was nymph , rag nymph , that 's what he called me . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't know whether this was a fund-raising ploy or whether this was for real , ’ O'Boyle said , ‘ but I thought it was for real at the time . ’ |
| 14 | They thought it was for real , and panicked . |
| 15 | Perhaps they thought it was for unwanted babies ; she did start to explain about the new home for blind children , but never had to finish . |
| 16 | I thought it was for more than we are after selling him for . |
| 17 | Hoomey thought it was like one of those old war films with a bomber coming in to land along a bleak runway and all the ground-crew waiting to know the worst . |
| 18 | I thought oh , I thought it was like one of your tapes and I 'd pressed record and it had started recording over it . |
| 19 | When Marc spoke it was on another topic altogether . |
| 20 | In the upland region an old-established pastoral economy and the local industry that supported it was in sharp decline . |
| 21 | ‘ When I went to the opticians to see if my eyesight was good enough for driving she said it was beyond all medical explanation , it had to be a miracle , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Askari Security Services of Norwich said it was for poor work rate . |
| 23 | Erm the referee said it was for offside I mean I 'm not I 'm not arguing about we 'll we 'll think about that after the game . |
| 24 | Why had no one said it was like this ? |
| 25 | Miss Wilson , who has worked for the auctioneers for 25 years , suspected it was worth more than its modest £1,200 estimate . |