Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it w it was thick , it were bloody rank it was . |
| 2 | At a signal from the Reclusiarch the lights dimmed , all but one bright narrow shaft descending aslant from a hole in the centre of the stellar vault as though it were liquid starlight . |
| 3 | The scientist who hangs on to yesterday 's theory as if it were eternal truth is liable to be dumped on the flat earth — where he belongs . |
| 4 | SSP is straightforward to operate and is paid by you , the employer , as if it were normal pay . |
| 5 | If it were straight narrative it would be a Giant , but as a graphic novel its market is greatly reduced . |
| 6 | And so it were good propaganda this er this , people were saying , Well they 're prepared to go to Russia and fight the Russians to re re you know release our lads , they 're trying to capture . |
| 7 | But this time it was n't a dream — she was really here , breathing the drifting green atmosphere as if it were ordinary air . |
| 8 | Oh it were all camp . |
| 9 | The man who used to ride around Knockglen as if it were all part of his estate ; that was Eve 's grandfather , Major Charles Westward . |
| 10 | do er , it were all wallpaper |
| 11 | The contract is back again , I done all this erm water pipe it were all gravel in there sunk into the ground you know big hole in the ground ! |
| 12 | Around it were two steel chairs with putrid white plastic on the seats . |
| 13 | Tied to it were two speed boats , a smack and a power boat equipped for deep-sea fishing . |
| 14 | And , as it were one voice , an agony Of lamentation , like a wind that shrills All night in a waste land , where no one comes , Or hath come , since the making of the world . |
| 15 | Equalization is not so much between classes as between individuals within a population which is now treated for this purpose as though it were one class . |
| 16 | Well he said it were one point six but that says one point three and I really do sh well I want a one point six . |
| 17 | Cos it , I think it were one pound thirty nine or one pound forty six , something like that not dear , anyway er to buy two and then you get the third one free . |
| 18 | The money that the Minister has provided has been recycled more times than I can count — although he talks about it as if it were new money — and it will run out in April , but there is still no commitment to replace it . |
| 19 | So we started another thing then the , if you paid fourpence you , you could have your suit wrapped up and it were new paper with string . |
| 20 | Every time Morris got a telephone call which sounded from his laconic replies as if it were private business , Dyson frowned at him warningly . |
| 21 | It were eleven pound six for everything . |
| 22 | It were wunnerful stuff . |
| 23 | eh , it were that lady come quick and he |
| 24 | She said to me when they find out what it is she could soon have you on your feet , but she thought it were that shadow on me lung . |
| 25 | It were that skirt were n't it ? |
| 26 | ‘ It were that doctor with the yellow hair , were n't it ? ’ she said . |
| 27 | ‘ She reckons it were that chap she worked for , the one what lives in one of they new houses here in Upper Benbury . ’ |
| 28 | If it were full size you would have shaped the shoulders on a garment with no trouble at all and have a lovely neat edge for sewing up or grafting . |
| 29 | Given Tate 's deepseated and as it were forefated Virgilianism , it hardly could . |
| 30 | 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 . |