Example sentences of "it were [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Around it were two steel chairs with putrid white plastic on the seats . |
2 | Tied to it were two speed boats , a smack and a power boat equipped for deep-sea fishing . |
3 | Sir , if you do come to the view , however , that one or both of these sites may have some as it were residual greenbelt functions , then we ask you to bear in mind the matters raised , in particular Mrs 's appendix nine , about the need in the longer term , that is , beyond two thousand and six in particular , for a strategic reserve . |
4 | It 's a high-risk enterprise for us to , to pontificate about local radio , particularly as we have three as it were local radio representatives here , and we shall give them ample opportunity to confirm or deny the sort of things we 're saying . |
5 | They built a house , the Villa Eugénie , which eventually grew into the present Hôtel du Palais , a vast building close to the lush sands of the Grande Plage ( formerly known as the Plage tea Fous , because only the reckless , if not the insane , were thought likely to risk swimming there ) , very monumental and with a tricolour flying above it , as if it were some government department rather than merely a hotel . |
6 | and I went in shop I said a sack of dog food I said German Shepherd and got it home and I thought this looks different , it were ginormous chunk things in it and he were going ptew , ptew and they were all over garden |