Example sentences of "[coord] it [was/were] [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was a film which really was ill-conceived and quite frankly ridiculous . |
| 2 | The foot soldiers came up in rows , yelling and dancing and it was a marvel they were not ridden down , as the cavalry seemed to dash right into them . |
| 3 | that was in this week 's and it was a stag I have n't got this week 's , not out today |
| 4 | It was the sort of pride which comes before a fall — and it was a fall which Gorbachev became increasingly willing to envisage . |
| 5 | People were using the bottle and litter banks and it was a pity they were often left in need of emptying . |
| 6 | Before papa died she had been a child , spoiled and cosseted and it was a pity she had not grown up a bit more quickly . |
| 7 | She had been on the verge of hysteria then ; add to that a day of travelling , with him pushing Chalon as fast as the horse could go carrying a double weight , plus the previous day 's tensions , and it was a wonder she had n't given in to it . |
| 8 | The focus of the museum has always been the pictures in the collections , and it was a philosophy which I shared completely . |
| 9 | The common secret of their fiction , in brief , was to put Wodehouse 's gaiety to a serious purpose , and it was a secret they were happy as strangers to share . |
| 10 | And a and also , I mean , it was , and it was a Panasonic one this , erm what you do , if you were doing a jacket top potato , you er would weigh the potato and , and then erm put in the weight , say it was six ounces , and all you do then is press erm jacket potato , you do n't have to put any time , it automatically does it for the time . |
| 11 | They just put it on you see with a brush and it was a paste you see , all over the coach , and then they had a hose and they washed all that X mover off you see , the X mover was an acid and it ate into the you see , bodywork . |
| 12 | ‘ Her life was utterly devoted to her art and it was a devotion she demanded from others . |
| 13 | Er but we enjoyed it again it was sixpence and it was a morning you 'd been doing something and that was it . |
| 14 | In many parts of the world , fish are still being caught by bow and arrow and it was a bowstring which first put Chilton , a Bolton lorry driver , on to the potential of the high-performance polyethylene fibres . |
| 15 | And it was a challenge they eagerly accepted . |
| 16 | and it was a thing I never buy a , I never bought any afterwards |
| 17 | Well they used to ask you to invite the e actually invite the American soldiers into your homes and my friend in Chuckery a couple of years ago , I was visiting him one Sunday lunch and a knock came to his door and he went and it was a guy who came over to see , his mum is now dead , but he , he come over he remembered him from the war . |
| 18 | I suppose Michael was quite a superficial person but to me he represented excitement and it was a period I had to go through . |
| 19 | From experience he knew Grant had a weakness he could exploit — his concern for the safety of others — and it was a flaw which would now prove fatal . |
| 20 | The interesting competition was between Paisley and the Official Unionists for the title of spokesman for the Protestant people , and it was a contest which Paisley won comfortably . |
| 21 | It was a world that had captured Andy Laing 's imagination ten years before , when he was just finishing school , and it was a world he would never enter again . |
| 22 | This required the active incorporation of the mass of the population to serve the nation , at the expense of many lives , and it was a process which necessarily involved cultural as well as military and civilian social administration to an extent which survived the ending of the war . |
| 23 | No , I thought if it was a man it was a president and it was a woman it was Prime Minister . |
| 24 | ‘ And it was a job she was being paid to do — that 's the way she looked at it . |
| 25 | She was feeling helpless , a victim of circumstances temporarily outside her control , and it was a feeling she loathed . |
| 26 | Scarlet did n't care what they said about psychiatry — she got the impression that her therapist disapproved of her , simply because she needed therapy , and it was no use anyone saying anything to the contrary . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , the government became increasingly divided in 1947 on a range of issues , and it was the Communists who were usually at odds with their coalition partners . |
| 28 | It was Diana who was held responsible for the steady stream of royal staff who had left their service during the last eighteen months and it was the Princess who was accused of forcing Charles to abandon his friends , change his eating habits and his wardrobe . |
| 29 | For a long time it looked as if Newcastle were going to leave with the three points they so desperately needed and it was the visitors who drew first blood . |
| 30 | In the event , Milena died practically in Margerete 's arms in 1944 , and it was the Americans who liberated Ravensbruck . |