Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] it was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the vast silence it was nothing . |
| 2 | When they wrestled together he was the stronger ; he sent his arrows further and more accurately ; but when they ran races barefooted across the rabbit-bitten turf it was she with her long skinny legs and flying hair who left him far behind . |
| 3 | The Grammar School in Stockport , however , avoided the extinction which other schools had suffered , for during this turbulent period it was itself in a sort of Limbo . |
| 4 | ‘ Ever since I was a little boy it was my dream to have a tree house , ’ says Mark , 40 , who built it out of materials from his timber yard business . |
| 5 | Granting evils in the slave trade and colonial slavery it was none the less argued that government could more easily influence planters and traders through better regulation than they could control the situation on the West African coast . |
| 6 | poor shop it was it 's just like |
| 7 | Yes it was nice we we did lots of entertaining and and things like that it was really good fun it was it was fun . |
| 8 | Few would argue , though , that the most important person in the history of West Indies cricket was Frank Worrell , for as the first regular black captain it was he who united all the old discordant factions and created one of the most glorious of teams . |
| 9 | I heard Claire Rayner say what a good thing it was we were n't immortal because , without the ultimate threat of death , we 'd never have the impetus to use life fully . |
| 10 | We give here a brief sample both of the original [ 10 ] and of Burgess 's Class 1 version [ 11 ] : [ 10 ] Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo … |
| 11 | On the subconscious level it was what they desired to heal their own castration , their own sense of lack . ’ |
| 12 | In terms of long-range revolutionary potential it was what Lancaster calls the progressive pauperization of the countryside which would have the most ominous consequences , with a rural indebtedness in Cochinchina alone rising from 31 m. piastres in 1900 to 134 m. piastres in 1930 . |
| 13 | but Mrs the other day it was something like two o'clock , Mrs said to her , she went to lunch one till two Mrs oh have you had your lunch ? |
| 14 | ‘ I saw him on the television the other night it was his run and cross down the left that led to the Americans ’ first goal against England . |
| 15 | ‘ I saw him on the television the other night it was his run and cross down the left that led to the first goal against England . |
| 16 | If he had one trait of potential consequence it was his fondness for France , which led him to encourage efforts to ally with that country , but the international situation made these futile during his lifetime . |
| 17 | If the creditor , without any fraud , accepted it in satisfaction when it was not a sufficient satisfaction it was his own fault . |