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 . ’ |