Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] it was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And everyone reckoned it was the album that Talk Talk had always wanted to make . |
| 2 | but the Principal of the Technical Institute at Lowestoft was quite a character , a Mrs , a Miss G C and I remember it was the day after the erm , the bombing and the building was pretty well devastated and er Miss rung up and said , she 'd got an idea she said erm how about hiring a bus , a double-decker bus , I could have my classes in the bus and erm |
| 3 | I caused a lot of hurt to my husband and family when I left them to live with her , but my partner , Kate , felt as strongly about me as I did about her and I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 4 | I made my escape you would say , and I know it was the coward 's way out , because I have to confess that I thoroughly enjoyed the proceeds . |
| 5 | It always used to go out of tune and I thought it was the tuners , but in fact the trouble was with that old Gibson vibrola — a terrible thing , really cheap . |
| 6 | When I was at the GLC , Ken Livingstone was in charge and I thought it was the beginning of Utopia , so many wonderful things were happening at last . |
| 7 | There would have been no reprieve had I deposited my CFI over the side and I suppose that could have happened , I was to learn many years later , however , most of the formation complained that I steered a very erratic course , and I thought it was the CFI touching the control column in his cockpit , and with his feet ( suggesting that I move to the right or the left ) . |
| 8 | that 's what I 'd guessed , erm , so I said no , I said they 're fine , so she said oh I 'm ever so sorry I said do n't be I said these sort of things get around , I mean it 's , she kept go and then I went on to describe how I virtually done not too a dissimilar thing going up the road trying to talk to people about writing in to object , you know with this planning application and erm , I said I sort of knock on someone 's door up there and I thought it was the next door that the husband had died and it was that one |
| 9 | And I realized it was the first time I actually slept in a bed with Frank ever . |
| 10 | There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over . |
| 11 | Yeah , at the beginning was when sort of got twenty minutes left to do it erm we were fine there and I think it was the beginning part was and then we started panicking then like sort of after that you said oh do you want five minutes or more and we all sort of looked at each other you know and we did n't feel that we had enough time erm so we just sort of really |
| 12 | and I think it was the twenty third squadron that they have here . |
| 13 | Quarterly meetings which they call them that was held in er the Odd Fellows Hall in Forest Road and I think it was the March January February March quarterly meeting that they er the ballot was taken for delegates for the conference . |
| 14 | The voting er you voted for them at the delegate meeting and I think it was the six top six highest in the vote became the standing orders . |
| 15 | Yeah I think it was he but I be quite sure and I think it was the boyfriend was number thirty , but I do n't know other one , right out of the window where the porch is . |
| 16 | She had never known anything like the need that rent her , and she knew it was the same need that was racking Luke 's rigid body ; and still it escalated as they succumbed to a welter of tumultuous embraces , caresses and kisses , their staccato breathing punctuated by the sharp sounds of desire , their skin damp with perspiration . |
| 17 | Well she had this cup for him , there was no handle on it and she knew it was the dog 's so |
| 18 | I told Diana [ Vreeland ] and she thought it was the chicest thing she ever heard . |
| 19 | And she believed it was the same with him . |
| 20 | Soon her ordeal would be over and she vowed it was the first and last time she would act as model . |
| 21 | And we thought it was the way that we tret it ! |
| 22 | And they reckon it was the best class of of er Douglas fir they ever had . |
| 23 | For a moment Ben could n't understand what was going on , then one of them turned and he saw it was the captain , a man called Rosten . |
| 24 | The sea murmured , and he thought it was the trees . |
| 25 | The trees murmured , and he thought it was the sea . |
| 26 | ‘ Somebody bought Stevie Wonder a cheese grater for Christmas and he said it was the most violent novel he 'd ever read ! ’ |
| 27 | and he said it was the only year that he has n't . |
| 28 | He 'd got all the er information about it when he came and he said it was the best type of covering if you 've got dogs or cats . |