Example sentences of "it [was/were] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each scrap of news any one of them had about themselves or their immediate family — child , husband , dog , cat , Bendix dishwasher , a new dress or pair of shoes , the price of every article they bought — was as fascinating to each other as if it were their very own ; and any little thing out of Great Meadow was pure binding . |
| 2 | A small , terrified child clutching a satchel with both arms as though it were her most prized possession . |
| 3 | There is a tendency for people to approach this matter as though it were one entirely for the shipyard concerned . |
| 4 | But it was n't actually , it were something else , and people were finding that their goods were repossessed because they could n't keep up the payments . |
| 5 | Seeing how the boy stared at Hammond 's hand a moment before tentatively offering his own , how he studied the meeting of their hands , as if it were something wholly new to him , Spatz understood . |
| 6 | Consider , he says , that when we speak of the existence of a sensible thing we mean that we are perceiving it by various of our senses , or could perceive it were we suitably placed . |
| 7 | I agree with him and I would resign from the Conservative Party if it were anything else . |
| 8 | She heard herself say , as if it were someone else : ‘ What is it you want from life , Christopher ? |
| 9 | Then she thought , hard and suddenly as if it were someone else 's thought , I 'm in love with someone who 's not Anne . |
| 10 | ‘ He straightened one or two things out in my action , worked on my technique a bit , but the most important thing he taught me was to concentrate on every single delivery as if it were he most important in your life . |
| 11 | Now I must admit my first thoughts of it were it really gets my back up for some reason or other . |
| 12 | At home people rallied round automatically ; it was taken for granted that if someone was in trouble then it was everyone else 's business to help . |
| 13 | It was summat like er I du n no , it was summat like five hundred pound a year . |
| 14 | Sometimes when the grave digger dug the grave , they would find er that it was somebody else 's grave and they had o start again . |
| 15 | And thought it was somebody else . |
| 16 | It was somebody else Robert who was in there already . |
| 17 | At full-time it was nil all . |
| 18 | Another dream , I 'd thought , and tried to remember , but remembered the pigeon instead : it was n't rats , it was her again , winding me up . |
| 19 | He did n't answer , but this time his lips quirked up as if he was secretly amused by something , and she hoped it was her bravely joking manner . |
| 20 | I 'm sure it was her though . ’ |
| 21 | He had known it was her all along , of course . |
| 22 | I said the funny part about it was we never had at home |
| 23 | It was they again , not we , who invited the judgment of the electorate . |
| 24 | It would have been invaluable to know what it was they really wanted from their association with the Ping Tiao . |
| 25 | Even if it was neglected , it was they still got a little bit of land . |
| 26 | It was her there . |
| 27 | But then again I think I would I would be lying if I said that , I wish it was me rather than anybody else . |
| 28 | Instead of being handed the life sentence he so richly deserved , Waddell was released from Barlinnie the following year and gave yet another confession to the Ayr murder to the Evening News : ‘ It was me all right . ’ |
| 29 | If members of a conquering nation called upon the nation they had conquered and continued to hold down to forget their specific nationality and position , to ‘ sink national differences ’ and so forth , that was not internationalism , it was nothing else but preaching to them submission to the yoke , and attempting to justify and perpetuate the domination of the conqueror under the cloak of internationalism . |
| 30 | It was nothing really radical in terms of modern design — even apart from Malcolm having adapted it from a picture — but it had great presence . |