Example sentences of "it [was/were] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 2 | ‘ I knew it was summat of the sort . ’ |
| 3 | It was her at the helm |
| 4 | I almost blush with embarrassment , like it was me in the picture . |
| 5 | It was me against the known world . |
| 6 | It was nothing of the sort . |
| 7 | This would seem to imply a super-intelligence , but it was nothing of the sort . |
| 8 | For instance , a book on the influence of religious tradition on the education of women in Britain and India might include substantial chapters or whole sections on Hinduism , Buddhism and Christianity ; if the indexer therefore indexed HINDUISM , BUDDHISM , CHRISTIANITY , RELIGION , EDUCATION , WOMEN , INDIA , BRITAIN , the later combination of individual facets such as HINDUISM and BRITAIN might suggest , falsely , that the book was about Hinduism in Britain when in fact it was nothing of the kind . |
| 9 | He retorted that it was nothing to the risk he had taken . |
| 10 | If I had found the cramped interior of the U-boat at Kiel oppressive , it was nothing to the claustrophobia I felt inside the midget submarine , and I marvelled again at the courage and calm that had enabled Place and his crew to live a daily life in such surroundings , far less undertake and brilliantly accomplish their mission . |
| 11 | It was nothing but the stench of dead , rotting rats and of bats ' dung . |
| 12 | It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit . |
| 13 | Certainly not — as a matter of fact , I holidayed not half an hour 's drive from your house , at the bottom of Loch Ness , and it was nothing like the Bahamas — we journalists ca n't afford to go to such places . |
| 14 | If it meant anything at all , thought Henry , it was something along the lines of We have n't got a clue . |
| 15 | Erm , and it was going on about it was something to the sum insurance ? |
| 16 | and there was a lot of waste , but these new tables did bring that , it was something for the company it was more than anything , you know cos we were on the bonus system . |
| 17 | It was something about the lovers skiing across the Alpine mountain slope , vanishing into the mist . |
| 18 | It was something about the old man 's attitude that had made him cry . |
| 19 | It was something about the times that drugs should be so easily come by . |
| 20 | It was something in the past . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was something in the dowager-duchess 's voice that caused it , but Joan to her own dismay burst into tears . |
| 22 | Jesus , maybe it was something in the water ! |
| 23 | Now it was a rule and the custom at the time that any of the staff could impose a fine on the spot and in this circumstance Fagan imposed a fine of 10 " ackers " — that is 10 piastres , which I can not remember what the value was at the time , but let us say it was something in the order of 5 . |
| 24 | It was n't just the overwhelming sense of power that seemed to emanate from him as he stood there , it was something in the startlingly blue eyes which raked her slender figure and delicate features with an intensity that almost took her breath away . |
| 25 | The whiteness of his shirt seemed to emphasise his tan , but it was something in the glittering gaze , raking her slowly from head to toe , that made her hesitate . |
| 26 | It was something in the air , she decided , some voodoo spell maybe . |
| 27 | It was something like the truth — as much as he would give to Ellwood . |
| 28 | I 'm not sure , but I think when I studied this in college I think it was something like the average of producers of vocabulary of less than two thousand words . |
| 29 | It was him with the beard cos they always said the Duke of Windsor took after him because he was |
| 30 | ‘ It was him in the photo . |