Example sentences of "it [was/were] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh it were I play a bloody tune on it bloody snake charmer |
| 2 | Well there there i they used to s you know invite everybody you said to you know everybody down on the picket line , well we were kids we used to go like re to be quite honest like we went because it were you know a bit of fun really . |
| 3 | It was her taking the sleeping pill that had done it . |
| 4 | It was what brought the Chelonians to their valley . |
| 5 | And they they seemed very determined er you know if if you do n't I think you 'd better er put the the box there and within twenty four forty eight hours or whatever it was we had the box in Quix you know . |
| 6 | As it was we finished a stroke behind Dai Rees and lied for second with Kel Nagle . |
| 7 | I think it was they wanted a complete reply for each consultant file , or case file did n't they ? |
| 8 | In the early years of his premiership he was very sharp , though , as Iain Macleod recalled , ‘ he could be maddeningly discursive — it was nothing to reach a decision on an enquiry into rating via the Greek Wars and Parnell ’ . |
| 9 | It was nothing to add a question one year , and another two years later . |
| 10 | But , although it was something to tell the others at school , secretly I thought he was important enough already . |
| 11 | ‘ It was I sent the boy out after his act of vindication . |
| 12 | I saw erm we saw a campaign chair near Mold week before last it was I asked the guy how much put down on it , you know , he said thirty pounds so I sa , I said I saw it for forty . |
| 13 | Cos in a very profound sense this is true , and I was so glad that it was I think a very serious part of the flow of Dr Stuart 's report that he mentioned that the er s sense of the ministry of the whole people of God as being much more than a distant objective for us , but something of absolutely essential , vital importance to the whole life and service and outreach of the church . |
| 14 | And she said it was so funny , she said , you 'd get the , the so the poorer people perhaps would use this shop and erm and yet she said , people I knew in the street erm that were Conservatives dealt at the Co-op , where it was I suppose the best buy and they were saving the divi you know , and we thought it was quite funny really . |
| 15 | The next morning he plonked all this money on the table , about eighteen hundred quid , and said it was mine to re-do the kitchen and the bathroom . ’ |
| 16 | Tony it was who persuaded the village people to take advantage of the benefits offered them — meals cooked on washing-day , for instance , and the simple lessons in pianoforte and painting that Susan and Breeze had suggested giving . |
| 17 | She it was who entertained the Marquis and three of his friends simultaneously . |
| 18 | She it was who took the reading , writing , and arithmetic , but , of course , not until after more prayers . |
| 19 | Second in command , Flying Officer Denis Stark , had a wife and baby in lodgings in Cambridge , and he it was who owned the BSA . |
| 20 | He it was who received the soubriquet of ‘ The Upright Judge' ’ , on the occasion of his being turned out of office by Edward IV , because of his scrupulous fairness at the trial of Sir Thomas Coke , Lord Mayor of London . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ And he it was who summoned the Court sorcerers to drive me out . |
| 22 | Well done , Des Wilson , or whoever it was who taught the tiresome Paddy this trick . |
| 23 | He it was who rescued a number of precious unpublished test recordings from private collections , and caused them to be made available for the first time . |
| 24 | Tony it was who organized the bi-weekly dances in the ‘ Sunset Hall ’ as he christened the disused museum , and who scoured the neighbourhood to get regular orders for the cakes Susan made so well . |
| 25 | Edward II particularly profited from the almost unctuous service of Pope Clement V : he it was who absolved the king from Archbishop Winchelsey 's curses and from his own various oaths ; it was Clement who appointed Reynolds , the king 's chaplain and treasurer , to Worcester and translated him to Canterbury to the exclusion of the eminently qualified capitular candidate , Thomas de Cobham ; above all , Clement alleviated Edward 's poverty with papal subsidies . |
| 26 | Lewis it was who broke the long silence between them , and took out his note-book : ‘ You knew where he was going ? ’ |
| 27 | She it was who opened the door and Henry heard a high-pitched giggle followed by a lengthy squawk of pleasure . |
| 28 | Ayling it was who dismissed the dangerous Taylor , caught at the wicket chasing a wide one , and Kent were some way behind the asking rate with only 43 for 2 on the board after 20 overs . |
| 29 | He it was who conceived the idea of identifying mind with consciousness and of claiming that consciousness and its contents are radically different sods of things from bodies and their properties . |
| 30 | She would hiss , cluck and even stick out her tongue — anything to deter the cat from doing whatever it was she thought the cat was plotting to do . |