Example sentences of "and [conj] it was [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came as some comfort to me when I was about to leave Dowayoland that the chief of my village said that he would gladly accompany me back to my English village but that he feared a country where it was always cold , where there were savage beasts like the European dogs at the mission , and where it was known there were cannibals . ’ |
| 2 | THE shares of Quicks Group raced ahead 22 to 90p yesterday after the Manchester-based car distributor announced a return to the black in 1991 and that it was maintaining its dividend total at 3p , with a 2p final on July 10 . |
| 3 | and used steel cans and that it was costing them less to use that than it was to use |
| 4 | My horror at the fact that it was not unpleasant , that I was almost enjoying it , and that it was killing me . |
| 5 | I complained and although it was stopped I still got my books later . |
| 6 | You see , all the iron work , as you took it off , it had to be straightened out , and if it was broken it had to be rewelded . |
| 7 | By all the normal rules I should have pulled away before that , but if the road was clear I could let things get more serious before doing anything , and if it was blocked it was already too late . |
| 8 | And whilst it was cooking he looked about him , and brought hay to the cow and goat , golden corn to the cock and hen , milk to the cat and bones and meat from his cooking to the great grey dog . |
| 9 | And when it was employed it was n't done well enough . |
| 10 | Ten thousand pounds will build you the highest column in the world , and will produce an astonishing effect ; fifty thousand pounds would not serve to erect an arch , and when it was erected you would have doubted which , it or the Royal Exchange , was the more magnificent object ; therefore I exhort you to keep to the columnar form . |
| 11 | Of the 10 cardinals , three had refused to sign the verdict , Francesco demanded a pardon and when it was refused he persuaded his brother to make life ‘ imprisonment ’ that of house arrest in the home of a sympathetic bishop . |
| 12 | In the period since the Second World War , political stability , economic growth , and a broad societal consensus , meant that the constitution as it was , as it was said to be , and as it was said it should be , were all seen as of one , pulling together in mutual support in a way that called for " no change " . |
| 13 | Simply expressed , the set-up as it was , as it was said to be , and as it was said it should be , had all pulled apart in a way that called for change . |