Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] it was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I says what curling tongs , says you left curling tongs on , I 'd actually burnt my finger I must 've sleepwalked and I , I felt the bed when I remembered all this and it was dry so I must have sleepwalked it all and went to the toilet and done my hair cos there was a big burn all down my finger . |
| 2 | At the height of the romance , the pair were inseparable and it was obvious to family and friends that they were heading for the altar . |
| 3 | The coach journey seemed shorter and it was sad to see the school emerging from the trees . |
| 4 | When much of Britain and Europe was covered with forest , tree worship was prevalent and it was customary to go in spring or early summer into the woods , cut down a tree and bring it , together with the blessings bestowed by the tree spirit , into the village where it was re-erected . |
| 5 | It was painful but it was successful . |
| 6 | This immensely ambitious programme was what he started out on in the early nineteen hundreds and it was this which , with the assistance of A. |
| 7 | Some were very violent and it was necessary to close and barricade the room . |
| 8 | It was something that gave me a framework for my experience , and in some ways kind of saved my life really because it gave me words to see that I was n't isolated , that there was a movement — it was very real and it was very gut . |
| 9 | They called us out into the stadium too early and it was hot , very hot . |
| 10 | Being a single mum is not very easy and it was important that there was lots of people to contact to encourage you in difficult times . |
| 11 | And it was bigger and it was shinier and er so she was happy a fortnight later anyway . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't ask me , missis ; all I know , wherever she went on those nights , she 'd leave here at half-past six and it was lucky if the clock saw her coming in that door at half-past eleven at night . ’ |
| 13 | The weather was warm and humid and it was difficult to believe that we were now officially in the Arctic . |
| 14 | It was dark and it was late , so late that the lamps had already been put out , they hardly saw him , you know , all that sort of thing . ’ |
| 15 | The canal route was dark and it was deep and it was a secret vein that ran through the heart of the city , and only the scum dropped down here after hours and expected to survive . |
| 16 | It was noisy and crowded but it was nice to have it so and Alan need n't have worried that she 'd dislike that . |
| 17 | The foyer was crowded but it was true that there was not a smartly dressed woman in sight . |
| 18 | I think I 've had it easy but it was hard at the time . |
| 19 | The water seemed peaceful and inviting and it was hard to believe there might be something lurking beneath its surface . |
| 20 | The option relating to present ATB courses was deliberately put last in this section to try to make the question as objective as possible and it was good to see so many confirming that they thought this was , or would be , the best way of learning . |
| 21 | The response was terrific and it was obvious that much thought had gone into your replies . |
| 22 | it was solid and it was all sort of , his age , fifteen , sixteen , seventeen , eighteen year olds and all vowing they 're never gon na sniff whatever again , you know all making these |
| 23 | yes , mine estimated , said nine hundred and eighty's , nine , eight , six , four and we 've used seven hundred and twenty units or something like that and it was fifty five pound odd , so when I checked it 's , it 's zero , eight , nine , seven something like that |
| 24 | And we it was fourth year when we done it and we 'd never been shown anything like that and it was interesting because it 's the sort of fact that you you never really think about |
| 25 | With the drying floors removed , the brickwork of the roundels proved not to be very strong and it was necessary to span the circular spaces with timber beams before the new upper floor was installed . |
| 26 | Joyce wrote this early in 1940 and it was understandable that he should exaggerate , in retrospect , the part which German culture had played in his life . |
| 27 | In the fifties it was very run-down and it was possible to buy the glory of a house with a painted ceiling and good stucco if you were prepared to do without the luxury of heating and hot water . |
| 28 | I would honestly say , and it may sound arrogant , that although the White Paper came out in 1975 and it was some sort of a landmark to point the way , we were never conscious here of any tremendous pressure or even really of any light pressure to reorientate our services to the Priority Services . |
| 29 | But there were certainly trolley buses when I went there in nineteen thirty one and trolley buses first came in in nineteen twenty three and it was all trolley buses by nineteen twenty six . |
| 30 | you know , being sick and it was all green and disgustingly ukky . |