Example sentences of "was it [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now erm was it through this union activity you became interested in the Labour Party ? |
| 2 | What was it about this man ? |
| 3 | What was it about this man ? |
| 4 | Was it about this violent chemistry ? |
| 5 | Just what was it about this man that he could arouse her strongest emotions so very easily ? she thought hazily . |
| 6 | But , was it on this main road ? |
| 7 | What was it with this guy ? |
| 8 | Was it for this that earth grew tall ? |
| 9 | But was it for this that the trumpets blew so confidently when the TECs appeared , less than two years ago ? |
| 10 | I was pleased with W F Owtram 's opening two lines : ‘ Was it for this I quitted Rhondda , /In my dreams at large to wander … |
| 11 | It lacks the ‘ glad preamble ’ of the later texts , and by beginning at ‘ Was it for this … ’ ( 1805 Book i , line 271 ) appears to trace the growth of the mind from earliest consciousness . |
| 12 | Was it for this the clay grew tall ? |
| 13 | Was it for this ? |
| 14 | And was it for this awfulness that she had taken the great jump that would divide her from the rest of her life , that she could never go back to , for this she had put herself beyond the pale and ruined her life ? |
| 15 | Was it for this common servitor to censure his habits ? |
| 16 | ‘ Was it for this the clay grew tall , |
| 17 | And so the line could read , ‘ Was it for this the bodies of men grew tall ? ’ |
| 18 | Was it for this the clay grew tall ? |
| 19 | Was it for this the clay grew tall ? |
| 20 | What business was it of this woman how she dressed ? |
| 21 | Was it at this moment that some reciprocal need established an understanding that they two were friends , would know each other for a long part of a life-time ? |
| 22 | And was it off this one central chamber that you took the tank chambers round ? |
| 23 | ‘ Was it like this ? ’ shouted Nooty , above the noise . |
| 24 | Was it like this ? ’ |
| 25 | What was it like this morning , the traffic ? |
| 26 | It has been said that the Imperial Court was more successful in mounting great set pieces than in its day-to-day running , and indeed so successful was it in this field that an impression was created that the whole of the period was one long spectacle — the so-called fête impériale — whose only aim was entertainment , prodigality and licence . |