Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They addressed most of their conversation to Zimmerman and his wife , occasionally deigned , as it were under protest , to speak to the Frenchmen , but pointedly avoided addressing the fräulein at all . |
| 2 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 3 | ‘ Most men wander out of the way , and fall into error for want of method , as it were for want of sowing and planting , that is , of improving the reason . ’ |
| 4 | and anyway she rang David up and she said , she did n't say it were for Bet but she said she wanted another two hundred pounds |
| 5 | If the battle in which Penda fought Cwichelm and Cynegils at Cirencester , dated to 628 in the Chronicle A ( s.a. 628 ) ( which is almost certainly a few years too early ) , can be safely placed before 633/4 , Penda was already a formidable force before Hatfield , but even if it were to date to a little after 633/4 it still reveals the wide-ranging character of Penda 's early activities . |
| 6 | It were on windowsill in corner . |
| 7 | What was fascinating to me at the time , was their naming of teachers whom I also recognised , from familiarity with the five or six schools in that particular area of south Oxfordshire : I could immediately apply a cross-bearing as it were of confirmation that what indeed singled out these teachers was a vividness of personality , a cheerful infectious enthusiasm and an unusual energy and commitment . |
| 8 | Despite the fact that the kanun thus in all likelihood dates from the seventeenth century , the biographical sources indicate that the principles , if not the details , embodied in it were at work in the late sixteenth century and very possibly earlier-as well . |
| 9 | My problem , therefore , would perhaps appear to lie with my speakers , but the G-K cost a fortune so I would be surprised if it were at fault . |
| 10 | Erm it would have to be if it were with water I 'd have to put something else in as well otherwise the stuff would n't stay on the page . |
| 11 | That 's where everyone 's different of course but erm I , I think it is , it is it is a factor that erm one can watch television or can listen to the radio or one can go for a walk or do all sorts of things as it were before noon and midnight but three or four in the morning , you know , when everything is |
| 12 | Er you had erm a room for , you had erm it were like school . |
| 13 | They let the people in you know ooh my by time we set off I er it were like Christmas . |
| 14 | It had been in a pocket diary , and the names of the faraway places written on it were like magic — Africa , Australia , China , Equator , Printed in Hong Kong , Iceland … . |
| 15 | where we were going , I mean it were , it were like concrete |
| 16 | Speaking of the alleged reprocessing facility he stated that " if it were in operation and complete , then it would certainly in our terminology be called a reprocessing plant " . |
| 17 | The polemical and ideological edge to this debate must be borne in mind : not all those engaged in it were in favour of increased public spending , due to fears about its effects on investment and on incentives ; and in some quarters it was passionately felt that the ageing of society was socially , economically , and even politically undesirable ( Thane forthcoming ) , and hence that its dangers should be emphasized . |
| 18 | Although the subject was something not discussed , almost everyone in the road had at one time or another been confided in and had helped Mrs Browning as far as they could , although she seemed to feel she should not worry any particular neighbour too much so went from one to another , as it were in turn . |
| 19 | The readership to be considered was the actual or at least predictable reading public rather than the precocious fourteen-year-old schoolgirl into whose hands it might perchance fall — unless it were in fact aimed at or distributed to fourteen-year-old schoolgirls , by whose vulnerability to corruption it should then be judged . |
| 20 | Did you see erm , they see in this paper the light did it were in Kingfisher book and it was seventeen pound for a roll |
| 21 | Had the German attack been mounted on 12 February , as planned , the French , caught as it were in transit — for though now aware of the impending peril they were only beginning to bring up reinforcements — must have been overcome in a total and horrible manner . |
| 22 | One issue that is particularly damaging is the decision by the Labour party that if it were in power it would tax British farmers and give the money to the farmers of Spain , Portugal and Greece . |
| 23 | The strikers , protesting against the threat of compulsory redundancies , gave leaflets to customers looking at the Mondeo on its promotion day , pointing out that many of the skills which went into it were in danger of being wiped out . |
| 24 | Er it were in paper about this er this woman she 'd gone to the hospital and she must have been there longer than she thought , and so she 'd got her car clamped and it was thirty pound to have it off but |
| 25 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 26 | This has a singular effect in travelling through the country : the eye seems ever on the verge of a forest which is as it were by enchantment continually changing into inclosures and hedgerows . |
| 27 | It all took time and it was past midday before we finally got away . |
| 28 | After a long time she looked at her bedside clock and saw that it was past midnight . |
| 29 | It was past midnight and we shivered through to dawn in guilty contemplation of our good fortune . |
| 30 | It was past midnight and the embargo had gone . |