Example sentences of "it [was/were] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were hardly his own yet sprang from his heart as though , in those exalted moments , it were itself a living vessel of the Christmas mystery . |
| 2 | It was what an unreliable dog does when stroked by someone who is afraid of it . |
| 3 | It was what the entire day had been about . |
| 4 | It was not that she minded the hard work ; it was what the hard work did to her poor hands . |
| 5 | It was something the competitive society logically needed … |
| 6 | Er it was I the only thing that that brought it to mind was Ann herself stumbled over it as she said it you know playwright |
| 7 | But it was she the older , the larger and clumsier , who listened to him over supper . |
| 8 | It was itself a direct product of her involvement in an imperialist system riven by competition for markets . |