Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean how do you protect Eurofighter two thousand in the absence of the medium range surface to air missile on the , I think you you told us about er the aircraft themselves as it were providing their own protection but what else ? |
| 2 | The old warrior was harking back to what John Grigg has called ‘ the heroic , and in a way surreal , interlude of 1940 and 1941 , when Britain , as it were played its finest match before relegation to the second division ’ . |
| 3 | and it were making him bad . |
| 4 | Oh it were to tell him that dinner were ready and there 's this cheeky little mouse sat on top dinner , and he ai n't half eaten it |
| 5 | Very deliberately , and as if it were giving him great pain , the German who had said little began to speak . |
| 6 | It was imagining its own absence from the scene , and disbelieving innocence . |
| 7 | It was taking us twenty-five minutes to cross the room . |
| 8 | But it was seeing her waving — standing there and seeming to wave for ever as she backed away from me . |
| 9 | It was disrupting his own writing . |
| 10 | USL , reportedly working along similar lines ( UX No 383 ) , has declined to comment officially , and asked whether it was developing its own solution or buying the technology in from elsewhere , director of low-end Unix systems , Bill Traber , said ‘ I ca n't answer that . ’ |
| 11 | Apart from the distressing nature of the problem itself , Eileen was most upset because she felt it was ruining her whole life . |
| 12 | Supermarket chain Gateway Foodmarkets announced it was switching its 1,100 cars to diesel six months ago and said it expected to save around £400,000 a year on fuel alone . |
| 13 | On that Sunday night there should have been a film show for the camp , but the projector was broken and the prisoner who knew the trade of projectionist and might have repaired it was serving his second consecutive fifteen day spell in a SHIzo isolation cell . |
| 14 | It looked like Uncle Mosse ; it was wearing his old uniform . |
| 15 | Around the turn of the century , there was much disenchantment with freemasonry because it was negating its original secrets of the occult and becoming more a social club and friendly society . |
| 16 | It was buying her some time and some space , nothing more . |
| 17 | But , Angel , it was to set you free , and to avoid a divorce , which everyone would talk about . |
| 18 | Those who saw it at the time have never been able to erase the startling impact that it made when it was given its short-lived British premiere at Sadler 's Wells in 1965 . |
| 19 | Once a definitive picture of it was produced , it was given its own phylum . |
| 20 | Bob reminds me — quite rightly — that it is high time I wrote to you , to say how nice it was to see you both , if only briefly . |
| 21 | It was to take me some time longer to undergo the metamorphosis from a ‘ teacher ’ to a ‘ lecturer ’ . |
| 22 | The Socialist League defended itself against any suggestion that it was exceeding its limited aims . |
| 23 | It was costing them extra in postage |
| 24 | And it was costing him fifty P a week . |
| 25 | ‘ It was costing him thousands . ’ |
| 26 | it was costing us two pound fifty per week |
| 27 | and it was costing us ten quid a month for the newspapers |
| 28 | Berkeley Eastoak Investment , the jointly-owned commercial property arm set up 18 months ago , announced yesterday it was doubling its original £100m investment in the market . |
| 29 | It was to bore his own side as well as his opponents . |
| 30 | ROBBIE When it all happened , when I got thrown out of the school , he said he 'd never wanted to adopt anyway , it was my mother 's idea , not his , it was to make her happy . |