Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It were half a bottle of Evian , 12 grapes , a piece of cheese and a small tomato . |
| 2 | We stood there with nothing in our bags we went for my fruit and veg and er , sto there , met this couple who we know we had a right good talk to them about , it were half an hour were n't we ? |
| 3 | Eliot was well aware it was all a business of transmission and reinterpretation of past interpretations as he shows in writing that ‘ Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum . ’ |
| 4 | I thought it was all a joke , you 've really got to be some schmuck to fall for that one . |
| 5 | He was almost sure that it was all a revelation to her and he watched her in sad silence as she covered her face and shook with sobs . |
| 6 | It was all a bit odder than that . |
| 7 | But it was all a bluff . |
| 8 | It was all a little ‘ circussy ’ — a little P T Barnham . |
| 9 | It was all a mistake of course . |
| 10 | It was all a great privatisation success , he explained , pointing to fleets of cars and tractors lined up for export . |
| 11 | It was all a considerable change from the previous day and a laugh-a-second round with his mentor , Fuzzy Zoeller , which was watched in admiration by , in playing terms , Daly 's female equivalent , Laura Davies . |
| 12 | It was all a flashback to his own childhood and to his father , Trent thought as he looked across at Mariana . |
| 13 | Perhaps it was all a dream . |
| 14 | The defence is too frequent , passionate and uncompromising to suggest that it was all a short-term tactic to confuse . |
| 15 | Would I perhaps welcome the security of a helicopter , or welcome the security of waking up in bed to find that it was all a dream and I had n't actually gone hill-walking at all because I had a date with Gerard Depardieu ? |
| 16 | The most paranoid account held it was all a cunning ploy on Quiksilver 's part , a mirage of advertising and hype . |
| 17 | It was all a question of catching it at the right angle . |
| 18 | I had or had had cancer — a most serious disease — yet I had been talking as if it was all a joke . |
| 19 | I kept telling myself that it was all a mistake , some kind of ghastly mistake . |
| 20 | It was all a total and welcome contrast to San Francisco , her home for the past nine years . |
| 21 | Knowing it was all a pointless farce sapped my morale as much as the rigorous regime did my physique . |
| 22 | It was all a lot of fun and of course very encouraging . |
| 23 | Well , it was all a big thrill . |
| 24 | Basically , he avoids discussion of his amazing wartime adventures , preferring to indicate that it was all a mistake . |
| 25 | In vain did he protest to the shopkeeper that it was all a joke . |
| 26 | There was a rumour that it was all a Tory plot to ruin the Liberals ' celebration of the success of their MP 's in bringing about the repeal . |
| 27 | It was all a conspiracy . |
| 28 | The girls that were using it reckoned that they were contacting ‘ the spirit world ’ but I reckoned it was all a big con trick . |
| 29 | It was all a little like Rhodes ' secret society , which was to have ‘ members placed at our universities and our schools [ to ] watch the English youth passing through their hands ’ , and may conceivably have been influenced by it . |
| 30 | Value for money became the watchword , explains Derek Kelly , a turkey breeder for over 40 years : ‘ It was all a matter of price per pound . ’ |