Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the same when it came to er subtracting , you see , it were all done on the board and you copied it onto your plate On to your slate . |
| 2 | It would be a tragedy for the aircraft preservation and restoration movement as a whole if it were all scrapped , and so it is with great sadness that after a great deal of thought they are agreed ( having been partners both in business and as husband and wife ) that the time has come to take life a bit easier and retire from the business . |
| 3 | Yeah I went and got it yesterday but they 'd had a break in and you should 've seen it they 'd smashed the front door , it were all smashed in . |
| 4 | Two walls are broken by windows , a third is occupied by the fireplace ; a battered electric cooker and an old sink , which looks as if it were last used to dip sheep , stand on either side of another locked and bolted door . |
| 5 | Maybe it 's sunk now — it was tiny compared to that boat . |
| 6 | It was single track with passing loops , except from Warley Road to the Gynn , where it was double-single controlled by signals . |
| 7 | No , I think what it was all covered adequately in , with exception to the procedures there , I think we , we felt that it , all the points were covered . |
| 8 | I do n't know what happened about that , but it probably was put in a heap to rot , but I remember that one load we had to take out was dreadful , it was all wadded and it was heavy , and we could not separate it , you know wrecked my back . |
| 9 | One of the accusations used and levelled against er against Christianity against the , the evangelical message , against things like the , the mission of Graham and , and others is that it , it does n't meet the needs the , the material needs of people but if you deal with the persons spiritual needs , if their sins are forgiven , those problems that are causing the material problem , it 's amazing how there are dealt with as well , the best way to sober up a person , the best way to deal with a person who 's an alcoholic , the best way to deal with a person who is a drug addict , the best way to deal with a person who , who commits adultery is not by telling them the wrongs of those things , it 's not by trying to , to , to do , to , to , you know , to , to counsel them it 's presenting the gospel allowing Jesus Christ to come into their lives and to forgive them , that will make the person sober quicker than all the counselling in the world and Paul says I brought you the most important the fundamental thing , that Christ died for our sins Paul again when he 's writing to the Romans in chapter five and verse eight he says but God demonstrates his own love towards us , in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us so God did in Jesus Christ what we could n't do for ourselves , so all of you have sin , so all of my sin , and he came and he died on the cross and as he was dying there was that transmit there , for he was n't dying for his own sin buy he was dying for your sin and for mine , it was all piled on him and so when we except what Christ has done , when we come to that place and yes I believe that you died for me , |
| 10 | test with it It was all arranged I thought , testing to see what weight they got |
| 11 | You go from er Hopeworths , Mason and Burnhams , John , Gill and Russells , Walker Brothers it was er a terribly industrial , well you could fi Road used to be all granite sets in the road , there was n't the , because there was so much traffic went up and down er it was all made of granite sets when I , when I was a kid , but my , shall I tell you what I used to do when I was a kid for my Saturday morning ? |
| 12 | an average size er well it was all there right and it was all tiled right , very plain , yellow and black was n't it ? |
| 13 | You know , it was all fenced they had n't lived there long had they ? |
| 14 | Mm there 's the Bare Naked Ladies er they come from Canada they are a brilliant group I think they 're brilliant I do n't care I like them and that 's called er Be My Yoko Ono I was going to go from the Bare Naked Ladies it was all planned I was going to go and say Mary Whitehouse how are you today and she was there er un unfortunately we 've we called this is serious . |
| 15 | went through and he put a two pile that down , another on er bonnet and it was all planned out and it was all , these stacker trucks went in |
| 16 | You see , before that , that land behind us , before it was all built on , it used to be plots and you know the man coming up with the |
| 17 | Cos it was all written down . |
| 18 | It was all manhandled in those days . |
| 19 | It it was all cut with a scythe until er well I started I go to Holland to work when I was fourteen and my brother Charlie he got away and my father and mother was left they were home . |
| 20 | Because from top to bottom it was all connected with iron and steel the whole lot all the way down . |
| 21 | and it was all split up into the different seminar group , we we had to take one aspect . |
| 22 | humbug and foolishness ; that it was all prearranged ; that he was given music which he already knew ; that it was ridiculous to think that he could compose , and so forth . |
| 23 | Aha that was just went in It was all blown to the side and that was it was kept just for the for the carol beasts for the sheds you see , for the that was what the what we saw what they bedded them down with that . |
| 24 | Then it was all done and the waiting began . |
| 25 | It was all done with and had ended how things always seemed to end for her . |
| 26 | It was all done by pacing , no wheels . |
| 27 | But if we are not told how it was all done once again we , the readers , have a right to doubt the reliability of the evidence . |
| 28 | There was a terrific amount to do , and her bandaged hand hampered her , but she worked away doggedly until it was all done . |
| 29 | Leo Lloyd was monastically devoted to his job — it is difficult for me to realise it was all done in his spare time — … he persuaded me that acting was infinitely fascinating . |
| 30 | Duncan Kenworthy , the producer of the two Storyteller series , and John Stephenson , the animatronics expert will explain how it was all done with a little help from some of their fellow creatures . |