Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was 4 o'clock in the morning when Agnes got up . |
| 2 | It was five o'clock in the morning . |
| 3 | There was a bed in one corner still unmade , although it was five o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 4 | It was 6.15 a.m. in Washington , and he was still at his residence at the Naval Observatory . |
| 5 | It was higher still in what Crewe calls the ‘ new working class ’ — workers living in the south , owning their own homes , employed in the private sector and not in trade unions . |
| 6 | Mark says it was nine o'clock in the morning when the crucifixion took place . |
| 7 | It was compatible also in that its procedures were much more closely aligned to historical scholarship than to critical evaluation , while at the same time enabling engagement in detailed analyses of literary language . |
| 8 | The traditional view of a trust is that it was enforceable only in personam , that is against the trustee . |
| 9 | erm , but actually near the erm near the bridge the the large roundabout before you go over the Gateshead bridge erm underneath that there 's a subway and what have you there 's shops in there , there 's a little shop in there that th that used to do these rolls and beautiful rolls , any bread you wanted , any filling you wanted you know they have vast variety of different fillings you know , and it was all there in these erm show cases , and we used to go down there and get a sandwich , take it back to the place where we was you know , this conference centre and erm it was great and then course when we got back |
| 10 | It was two o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 11 | It was two o'clock in the morning before she was conscious again , and able to call the police . |
| 12 | It was two o'clock in the morning . ’ |
| 13 | It was one o'clock in the morning . |
| 14 | It was one o'clock in the morning on a windless November night of 1837 . |
| 15 | It was six o'clock in the evening , four hours since the Deputy Public Prosecutor had summoned Zen to his office in the law courts . |
| 16 | It was six o'clock in the morning and already the temperature was rising . |
| 17 | A further facet of " rationality " applied to housing design was the assumption that a house was efficient if it was small enough in size to be cleaned by one woman . |
| 18 | It was four o'clock in the morning . |
| 19 | It was four o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 20 | When it was simmering slowly in the Aga she went into Penry , who was searching distractedly through piles of medical tomes . |
| 21 | As will be shown below , there is some reason , though not perhaps positive evidence , for supposing that his appointment to the Muftilik occurred relatively late in his life ; and there seems also to be good reason to suppose that his appointment to the muderrislik of the Manastir medrese occurred before his appointment to the kadilik since it was usual even in the early days of the Ottoman state for a man to have done some teaching before being appointed to as important a kadilik as that of the capital city . |
| 22 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 23 | The significant change I think is in the balance of debt between fixed and variable rate , where we took a conscious decision and been working it through to take more advantage of the prospective and er decline , it was prospective earlier in the year er in selling interest rates and the continued low er short-term rates in the United States . |
| 24 | That 's why I presume it was eight o'clock in the morning you see . |
| 25 | And I do n't know wh I mean it was ridiculous even in those days , ten o'clock was very early . |
| 26 | It was ten o'clock in the morning and the streets were almost deserted . |
| 27 | It was bad enough in normal circumstances , but when you had n't slept a wink , when you 'd lain there suffering from shock and disgust , it was more than any normal person could bear . |
| 28 | It was cold here in the doorway ; cold in the century too . |
| 29 | Now , however , it was three o'clock in the morning and all the servants were asleep . |
| 30 | That was all that mattered … and it was three o'clock in the morning . |