Example sentences of "it [was/were] [pron] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I th yeah , yeah I think it was I was a bit hesitant before came round to , to er be pleasantly surprised . |
| 2 | And then it was who was the helper on Double Your Money ? |
| 3 | We give here a brief sample both of the original [ 10 ] and of Burgess 's Class 1 version [ 11 ] : [ 10 ] Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo … |
| 4 | And it was there was no what's-a-name in there . |
| 5 | No , it was there was the girl who had hair down to about here . |
| 6 | Yes it was it was a very coarse fabric and if you 'd got animals they te it tended to claw . |
| 7 | Just a reply to that though if for instance the foyer bar became a jazz club and it was it was a the jazz club all the time then it would get a name of it 's own and it would get a reasonable quality . |
| 8 | yeah there 's a muse th th there 's a museum at Carne in Normandy , I do n't know if anyone 's been there , we went there last year , and it , it 's a new museum , a memorial museum and that 's the most moving place I 've ever been because it 's actually designed to show how awful war is and that it should n't happen again , it 's not a museum glorifying war , it 's a museum showing that , that it should n't happen , we should n't let it happen and there 's a erm there 's a great big case as you go in which has er a statement from every country that took part in the war , including Germany , and they 're all there , they 're all there together saying that you should n't you should n't let it happen and , and and I , I thought that was the sort o you know i i it was very impressive because i it was n't glorifying anybody , it was n't saying we won the war , you lost the war it was it was a , a coming together to say that it should n't happen . |
| 9 | It was it was a work of art to make one you know , it was n't easy . |
| 10 | But erm the paintwork was always , inside a house was always brown , like this is , as you can see it 's woodwork , it was it was a colour like a chocolaty brown . |
| 11 | Erm now the the it was it was a it was a mixed school but the girls were all on the , it was n't a mixed school in the sense of the word there was mixed in classes . |
| 12 | I mean it was it was a very small affair fortunately I think sort of glorifies it too much by giving it giving it the name , riot . |
| 13 | There was two thousand , we er you know was more than a union , it was it was a first class Friendly Society as well and it was friendly . |
| 14 | It was It was a great lot down in Leith here , and I 've often seen it down in Leith docks . |
| 15 | I it was it was a co , it was , it was currency as far as you were concerned , you could use it , it had purchasing power . |
| 16 | Erm n I as I say I could n't see her the bed it was it was a duvet and . |
| 17 | I mean , but it was really nice it was it was a really chewy meat you know . |
| 18 | Well perhaps it was it was a long I do n't know , but it did and I 'll show you on the video if you want |
| 19 | We went there , we took it with us , all this load , And what it was it was a forces couple and they were coming back to this country from Germany or somewhere like that , so we had n't seen them . |
| 20 | It was n't a a technical statement at all it was it was an opinion from an inspector . |
| 21 | Yes , but then again , it was it was an incident . |
| 22 | it 's actually an Am it was it was an American book which cos it was Just Seventeen |
| 23 | What it was it was an old bus station . |
| 24 | So it was it was the lace that you wanted emphasizing rather than a |
| 25 | yeah , yes verbally yes if we 're writing we 'd actually be six but it was it was the span of conception was n't it the capacity of the brain The span of conception says that if you deliver your presentation in groups of three in three themes and three subthemes then the audience is able to hold on to that and the way in which we set up the delivery or the way in which we delivered the structured thought pattern was through method |
| 26 | It was it was the |
| 27 | It was it was the er the throne room was n't it ? |
| 28 | Well I do it probably was actually but it was the switch that had gone , maybe lightning had hopped across the switch , yeah , but erm , that 's all it was it was the switch , but er , I mean the thing is it went wrong and they had to pay for it , okay it 's only a tenner to have it done , but it , if a C D player , I mean if the carriage goes , you know , sixty , seventy quid , you know I 'm buying these electrical things , it 's , because it 's a burg lock , I can buy them , get them a warranty with it an'all , then it 's took the burden off them . |
| 29 | Under the bonnet , and it was fucking , it was it was the best kit there . |