Example sentences of "and it [was/were] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you 've got the money and it was for a favour lasting a day or two , then why do n't you just tell him the arrangement is ended and let Barbara Coleman leave ? ’ |
| 2 | This was my first poem ever written and it was for a daffodil tea in our church . |
| 3 | From late 1813 trade improved , and it was for a time in 1814 brisk again . |
| 4 | ‘ Will you be going to Somerset too ? ’ she asked and it was with a sense of relief that she saw him shake his head . |
| 5 | I mean , we 've , I 've , there was a situation these are the roads he 's taking me around now , he had me reverse round the corner which was practically blind , could n't see what was round the corner , so I was edging round , and it was on a hill so I had to do it , every time I stopped I had to put the handbrake on so I did n't roll |
| 6 | Yeah , erm you know my mate Lorraine , her sister used to work in there part time and it was on a Friday |
| 7 | Her hair was hanging almost to her small waist and it was of a colour she had never seen before , not around these quarters anyway . |
| 8 | So Mains looked toward Southern , a senior club with which his family already had strong ties , and it was as a player for the famous club , with their black and white colours , that Mains developed to the point of gaining the Otago side in 1967 . |
| 9 | In those days , shorthand writers formed the only means by which ordinary speech could be recorded , and it was as a substitute for the stenographer that the phonograph was first marketed . |
| 10 | Miller was unstinting in the service of the Bristol Institution and it was as a result of his efforts that the museum — a precursor of the later City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery — became firmly established . |
| 11 | All three , it turned out , were close friends of Ron Martz , and it was as a result of this meeting that Martz and Burchette visited Coleman at UAB to solicit his help with their Cyprus trip . |
| 12 | He passed ‘ the pleasantest part of his youth ’ as a student at Edinburgh University — or so he declared in his will — and it was as a result of his generous bequest that the Faculty of Music was founded . |
| 13 | ‘ And it was as a result of these conversations that he invited you to join him on the dahabeeyah ? ’ |
| 14 | Er , however erm because of the concern about er the overall cost of the programme and the production cost in nineteen ninety two , we required er the companies to undertake studies into ways of reducing the programme cost and it was as a result of those studies , that they came up with a list of potential savings er which in the U K case er could knock fourteen percent off the price that they had quoted in April ninety two . |
| 15 | I had to announce a big disaster during the war , the fall of France or something , and it was during a children 's matinee . |
| 16 | It was dated nineteen thirty-nine , and it was about a visit to London . ’ |
| 17 | and it was in a back ally way and |
| 18 | The colours all yelled at each other ; most of the furniture was cheap and shabby and it was in a clutter of smelly untidiness , but the general effect was of a room somebody had made the best of according to their taste , and enjoyed living in . |
| 19 | A couple of hours passed , her spirits sinking lower , and then Philip came in , pleased , to say that his chum at the yard with contacts where demolition work was going on , had all that 43 needed , and it was in a van outside . |
| 20 | And it was after a pre-lunch 76 here that first time Scot , Chris Cowan , found himself heading the charge for a top qualifying place . |
| 21 | I walked here from Bruton Street and it was like a nightmare . ’ |
| 22 | There was like a prawl in the flywheel , and you pulled a lever like that and it , there was n't a connection on to the , like on to the crankshaft with a starting handle , this thing was on the flywheel and it was like a lever |
| 23 | I cut the grass yesterday for the first time and it was like a meadow ! |
| 24 | Even worse , you would tell me about new poems you had started to write , and it was like a dagger in my heart when you described working on them without my help — though the real reason you had come back to see me was to labour over them with me , adding my suggestions and excisions in the margins in your minuscule script . |
| 25 | ‘ I stood beside the drill and kept looking up at this line we had just made ; and it was like a gun-barrel . |
| 26 | She sensed the truth was undoubtedly the latter , and it was like a lance driving through her . |
| 27 | ‘ We 'd been walking all day , brushing through great webs of giant spiders , and at one stage I looked back at Adrian Arbin , who I was with , and it was like a horror film — his face was running with blood , blood running into his eyes , down his neck , staining his shirt . |
| 28 | I think we tried to use it once , and it was like a comedy show , it was crazy . |
| 29 | Birtles gets there before me and it was like a hurricane sweeping through , ‘ Thwack , bash ! ’ |
| 30 | And and it was like a tin ladle which I can remember ever so well the tin ladle . |