Example sentences of "it [was/were] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh it were all camp . |
| 2 | The man who used to ride around Knockglen as if it were all part of his estate ; that was Eve 's grandfather , Major Charles Westward . |
| 3 | do er , it were all wallpaper |
| 4 | The contract is back again , I done all this erm water pipe it were all gravel in there sunk into the ground you know big hole in the ground ! |
| 5 | eh , it were that lady come quick and he |
| 6 | She said to me when they find out what it is she could soon have you on your feet , but she thought it were that shadow on me lung . |
| 7 | It were that skirt were n't it ? |
| 8 | ‘ It were that doctor with the yellow hair , were n't it ? ’ she said . |
| 9 | ‘ She reckons it were that chap she worked for , the one what lives in one of they new houses here in Upper Benbury . ’ |
| 10 | er it were this mechanic who lives in who 's , who knows a good mate of Tony 's and he 's told Tony Tony told him like and he says right , he said leave the car to me . |
| 11 | He was studying it reverently , as if it were some breviary of tobacco . |
| 12 | But again the accent was on seniority : ‘ Commonly wee do not call any a yeoman till he be married , and have children , and as it were some authoritie among his neighbours ’ . |
| 13 | Condensation is an epidemic on this estate and usually the tenants are blamed , as though it were some kind of social disease , not a structural defect . |
| 14 | They built a house , the Villa Eugénie , which eventually grew into the present Hôtel du Palais , a vast building close to the lush sands of the Grande Plage ( formerly known as the Plage tea Fous , because only the reckless , if not the insane , were thought likely to risk swimming there ) , very monumental and with a tricolour flying above it , as if it were some government department rather than merely a hotel . |
| 15 | No it were some spy . |
| 16 | The establishment was ringed with barbed wire , and guarded by men of the R.A.F. Regiment whose N.C.O.s kept discipline by threatening their men that misdemeanours would result in their being sent ‘ inside the Park ’ , as if it were some sort of madhouse . |
| 17 | Usually , one then treats one set of relations as problematic and.simply assumes the existence of the other , as if it were some sort of indeterminate background noise or , more contentiously , assigns truth to one and falsity to the other . |
| 18 | People often treat science as if it were some sort of ‘ forbidden country ’ . |
| 19 | It was disguised as if it were some form of regional assistance , whereas it was bailing out uneconomic , old industries which ought to have been modernised . |
| 20 | as if it were any day . |
| 21 | So that 's nearer than , what it were half hour ago |
| 22 | And er I mean it was all luck everything that sort of happened to me that night anyway I mean it it was n't so lucky for other people but I suppose most survivors have their their tale or so . |
| 23 | It was all part of the Rue Everlor . |
| 24 | It was all part of the defence of London in an emergency . |
| 25 | It was all part of their information technology training , a component of the national curriculum . |
| 26 | She regularly conceded it was all part of the ‘ game ’ she was involved in . |
| 27 | It was all part of the game . |
| 28 | It was all part of his punishment , to give him food he liked when it could n't be appreciated . |
| 29 | But he accepted it was all part of the deliberate fuzzing that went with G9 . |
| 30 | Some clearly thought it was all part of the night 's entertainment . |