Example sentences of "it [was/were] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it wuz me lyin' there , my Ruthie 'd be ransackin' the house lookin' fer the insurance policies , t'check they wuz payed up t'date . |
| 2 | Erm oh I asked him about that when I went and he said it were nothing to worry about , it 's just |
| 3 | It were her give it us . |
| 4 | We would n't know it were we shown . |
| 5 | James expressed the negative side when he described it as ‘ the theory which denies that there can be in a sensation any element of actual locality , any tone as it were which cries to us immediately and without further ado , ‘ I am here ’ or ‘ I am there ’ ’ . |
| 6 | Scrumpy should come up , scrumpy should come up all clouded you know , you know with bits of sheep and er bit bits of sheep and rats and that lying about in it were they 've thrown them into the you think I 'm joking do n't you ? |
| 7 | Oh it were I play a bloody tune on it bloody snake charmer |
| 8 | In so far as the functions performed by Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih , apparently successively , may be characterized as an " office " from an Institutional point of view , as it were it seems not to have been continuous , however , at least on the evidence of the biographical sources . |
| 9 | No it were n't ma , it were , it were it did its job , that was keep your heating up , cos you could blow it up and it |
| 10 | When was it were you born were you born You were born in the Republic of Ireland . |
| 11 | Well there there i they used to s you know invite everybody you said to you know everybody down on the picket line , well we were kids we used to go like re to be quite honest like we went because it were you know a bit of fun really . |
| 12 | Well in a sense how do you know you 're not , as it were you know in many cases . |
| 13 | yeah I think that 's probably the best thing and gradually the past you 've missed might start fitting into place as it were you know if you , if you keep up with the present , I think that 's probably the best thing so er and , you know , er I know it 's no comfort but these things take time , you know it takes time to get socialized into something and it takes time to get used to a way of working . |
| 14 | I said no Julie I said I have n't I said I would tell you cos I said I , she said to me do ring me and let me know , and I said I said I would and I will , I said no cos I did n't tell her when it were you see , so I said it 's this week coming and I 'll ring you this on Monday , so she said oh it was only , cos she said I saw Deb and Deb wondered , I thought yeah I bet she did she would |
| 15 | ‘ It was ye contaminated it . ’ |
| 16 | Nobody er erm or it was nobody thought about it li that was taken for granted . |
| 17 | It was her taking the sleeping pill that had done it . |
| 18 | It was her applying for asylum , not us inviting her . |
| 19 | It was what got Joe Lampton to the top . |
| 20 | It was what had happened inside his head . |
| 21 | She did n't tell him it was what had triggered off the virus . |
| 22 | It was what came before , during and after each day 's ride that was rigorous . |
| 23 | The truth is that there is an embarrassment of riches in Joyce 's work that it was what to leave out which posed the problem , not what to include . |
| 24 | It was what brought the Chelonians to their valley . |
| 25 | ‘ It was what worked , what would suit and what I could afford . ’ |
| 26 | I have far fewer friends and I am partially sighted , which makes me a lot more vulnerable ; but whatever happens physically , I have always said that it was what happened mentally that mattered . |
| 27 | I have far few friends and I am partially sighted , which makes me a lot more vulnerable ; but whatever happens physically , I have always said that it was what happened mentally that mattered . |
| 28 | It was what happened next that had made such an indelible impression upon Mr Charles . |
| 29 | And I think it was , we were willing to go back to work and carry on discussions , albeit without earning any bonus because we were working to rule at the time , but it was what happened in er the quarry that really started the strike , when he laid the workforce off because they were helping us , or joining us in sympathetic action , you know there was a lockout up there , so I think that speeded up things considerably . |
| 30 | When both parents are dead there is no one to talk with about those uncertain , early memories of people and places , or to confirm when it was we had measles , or where we stayed on holiday . |