Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The balcony of a gold-stone house was small as a matchbox , the family leaning on it were doll's-house figures watching the world go by . |
| 2 | On it were four names written neatly underneath each other . |
| 3 | And behind it were two Indians riding a mule , brown ponchos draped over their shoulders , straw hats jammed on their heads and held with leather thongs under the chin . |
| 4 | eh , it were that lady come quick and he |
| 5 | On Whitsun eve , 1960 , the Central Theological Commission was set up to prepare the Council ; subject to it were ten sub-commissions presided over by the heads of the corresponding Roman dicasteries . |
| 6 | Er it were in paper about this er this woman she 'd gone to the hospital and she must have been there longer than she thought , and so she 'd got her car clamped and it was thirty pound to have it off but |
| 7 | It was enthralling entertainment prompted by United 's need to gamble and attack in the second half . |
| 8 | He mistrusted that notion because it was unlike Burun to fail to observe anything accurately . |
| 9 | It was unlike Constance to worry . |
| 10 | It was unlike Bill to change his training plans for anyone . |
| 11 | It was second nature to weigh up a situation and draw conclusions but this was not just another news story , this was different . |
| 12 | ‘ It was second nature to look at the linesman but I knew I was on . ’ |
| 13 | One possibility was that it was Roman material introduced when the drain walls had collapsed , for the drain had been cut through Roman deposits . |
| 14 | Do you remember the old days when it was standard practice to put one paper on top of another ? |
| 15 | The till , the till locks , and erm we used to assemble those as well and er it was a fortunate one who used to do the lacquering , there was a big er big erm heated table and er it was easy work to do the lacquering you see and you used to have to put them on the top of the heated tower to dry before they were packed to go away , but erm they were , it was a hard place to work for but er the one son Mr he was always in London and er this is n't being recorded now is it , is it ? |
| 16 | The other end was already harnessed to a team of horses , so it was easy work pulling off the entire roof in one smack . |
| 17 | Since , whatever western countries believed , it was tsarist policy to keep the Ottoman Empire in being as long as possible , he welcomed foreign assistance in the pursuit of that objective . |
| 18 | It was ancient conservatism dressed up in nineteenth century costume and , incidentally , hard to combine with that other biological image of the century which stood for change and progress , namely ‘ evolution ’ . |
| 19 | It was normal practice to live at home with one 's parents until marriage ( and women who did not marry usually continued to live with parents , often supporting them into old age , see below ) . |
| 20 | Her lawyers believed it was highest settlement made in an English divorce court . |
| 21 | The following day saw a remarkable change in the weather , the wind had dropped considerably , blue skies , and sunshine reigned supreme and it was all systems go for a cracking airshow . |
| 22 | Whe whether it was involved in , whether there was any travel involved or whether it was all desk bound or anything else you know whether he goes zooming off all over the country or whether , whether there 's a possibility of travel involved or any danger in it , in the job , unlikely but |
| 23 | did it , it was all road transported in them days . |
| 24 | IT WAS all cisterns go yesterday for firemen as two-year-old Sam Britton-Gant took his potty training a little bit too far . |
| 25 | IT WAS all cisterns go yesterday when a Sudbury toddler let potty training go to his head and firefighters were called to the rescue . |
| 26 | You see , it was all hand done , you see ? |
| 27 | It was all people talked about everywhere . |
| 28 | It was only a split second but it was all Donna needed . |
| 29 | It was all blood gone on there , it 's grown a bit now . |
| 30 | any way I got to the last one and it was two combinations combined together , so you 've got two separate combinations to do and then you 're to put those two together in with a different rule |