Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it [was/were] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the fishing trip that hot night was something different and it was to frighten and distress the boys . |
| 2 | Well I think I would wait Stefan until the oily film had gone off the top of the water for tender plants but then I am one of these people that would always tender plants with tap water anyway because you never know what 's in do you in rain water , anything can congregate in a pot , it can be infected with all sorts of things and I would just use this water on the garden in the first twelve months or so or use it on shrubs and things like that if it was required and then go on to er things like perennials but then you could use it on almost anything but with the proviso that you may have contamination in that water if it 's from Water Board . |
| 3 | There must be a naturally occurring substance which acts on the receptors , and , if so , it was likely that it was made and , when appropriate , let loose close to the opiate receptors , especially in the brain . |
| 4 | The circular waterway remained until the early nineteenth-century when it was filled and converted into a road . |
| 5 | The merged ‘ Norfolk and Suffolk Polled ’ could be any colour as long as it was polled and it was not until the Red Poll herdbook was formed in 1874 that the colour of the breed was formally agreed as red , preferably deep in colour , with a red udder ; white touches were permitted only in the tail switch , or on the udder and just in front of the udder on the inside flank . |
| 6 | It 's even more impressive because it was helped and driven by management through the provision of no capital whatsoever and a 25% drop in manpower ! ’ |
| 7 | The weather being too boisterous to admit of a boat being lowered , I endeavoured to capture the bird with a hook and line , and the ordinary sea-hooks being too large for the purpose , I was in the act of selecting a hook from my stock of salmon-flies , when a sudden gust of wind blew my hooks , and a piece of parchment ten inches long by six inches wide on which they were lying , overboard into the sea , and I was obliged to give up the attempt for that day ; on the next I succeeded in capturing the bird with a hook baited with fat , and the reader may judge of my surprise when on opening the stomach I there found the piece of parchment , so completely uninjured that it was dried and again restored to its original use. , |
| 8 | Er this outlines the issues er which we consider should be agreed by the County Council er perhaps any , any but there 's no comment on the we should say the quality terms but also on the Airport Policy Plan be possible starts we might take on duty now or in particular if it was discussed and agreed and thus agreed er pace is set out in appendix two . |
| 9 | But I says , that they were , I , that he were n't satisfied when it were vibrating and that . |