Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] and it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She was having trouble with a piece of chewing gum and it was my way of saying thank you . |
| 2 | Just a reply to that though if for instance the foyer bar became a jazz club and it was it was a the jazz club all the time then it would get a name of it 's own and it would get a reasonable quality . |
| 3 | And I 'd had a car crash and it was quite a relief not to have to worry about performing . |
| 4 | They talk about how they met when Denise was 20 at a Kirkby Town Football Club disco and it was love at first sight . |
| 5 | The track 's existence came under threat — there was talk of it becoming a gravel pit and it was , after all , a prime industrial area — but in 1982 tobacco giant Gallagher purchased the site and handed the important sections over to the Brooklands Museum Trust , erecting its new headquarters building where it would create least damage . |
| 6 | The proposed closure has been confirmed twenty four hours after British Coal announced the pit was to go into the review procedure and it was revealed that it had lost more than six million pounds in the last six months . |
| 7 | Now this contest I 'm looking forward too , it 's young left-hander who plays all manner of strokes , where the superb hundred at Hove last weekend , and er , tucked in particularly since Salisbury the leg spinner , on a short leg side boundary and it was similar situation today . |
| 8 | And I came to ask the doctor if I could get H R T. And she took my blood pressure and it was too high |
| 9 | And the , the chef 's were squeezing the custard carton and it was going cos it was the last and the |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Against the breeze , Ards did n't create any danger round the packed Distillery goal and it was no surprise when half-time arrived scoreless with little goalmouth excitement for the fans . |
| 12 | I checked the car clock and it was twenty past ten . |
| 13 | It had been a marvellous wedding party and it was followed by a wedding night that she knew she would never forget . |
| 14 | It was like , you know like the piping you get in the tins , only it was in a silver packet and it was beautiful . |
| 15 | She was ringing to say she was settled in a new council bungalow and it was thanks to me . |
| 16 | Woodmill controlled the game for much of the first half but could not get through the Meridian defence and it was n't until two and a half minutes into the second half that the deadlock was finally broken . |
| 17 | apparently he went , he went round telling everybody erm he was doing a live exercise and he got singed or something but this , this erm , its Browndown on the South Coast and it was , it was a Christ it was a Christmas piss up , regiment Christmas piss up and anything goes , as long as you do n't physically hurt somebody , although that has been known to happen and its not criminal anything goes right , but honestly the worse you do to somebody the worse they do back to you , and people are getting tied bollock naked up the flag poles , dumped in bins , erm , tied in their beds , put out in the middle of the parade ground , fucking all sorts of things you know , like what we can do , the most common thing is nicking , you know the old walking pay slips they 've got |
| 18 | Musicale was blocked for a run in the home straight and it was not until Pat Eddery secured an opening just over a furlong out that the filly looked likely to cut down Lord Huntingdon 's Wiedniu . |
| 19 | Manchester provided a good site for developing a dye industry because it was both at the heart of the Lancashire textile industry and it was close to a developing university . |
| 20 | Although the crossbow is known to have existed as early as the fourth century , its main use was as a hunting weapon and it was not until the latter part of the twelfth century that it became a major military weapon . |
| 21 | The generalist dominates the decision-making procedure and it was this tradition that was heavily criticised by the Fulton Report ( 1968 ) on the civil service . |
| 22 | it was for the er cat scanner and it was run by the Co-Op it was , it was just |
| 23 | ‘ But the positive thing is that we did win our last home game and it was a big one . |
| 24 | Now we had originally had this extra facility available er so that we could trade off life against the extra thrust in an emergency but there was clearly the possibility erm that that might be used er when it really was n't necessary and we would end up with extra costs , extra life cycle costs , shorter engine life and it was felt on balance that with a reduced threat overall that it was sensible to take out that facility and to accept a longer engine life , but not , there 's no reduction in the total normal thrust but its merely its override combat facility . |
| 25 | Ironically , while Jack was with the latter , he had a fabulous season as a goalscoring wing-half and it was two goals he scored against the Palace in early April 1952 which equalled the former record of 14 goals by a half-back established by Arthur Grimsdell . |
| 26 | Old one old ones just used which was at the bulb in every hen house and it was free range and I think there was nothing better than that . |
| 27 | The whole br reason for bringing the scheme forward in the programme was associated with the waste management plant and it was n't er er a scheme which would have achieved that priority in its own right . |
| 28 | The owners of the palace were the Hartig family and it was built about 1700 by Alliprandi . |
| 29 | And you only mentioned that briefly , once , at management team meeting and it was included in all the discussions , you know Ray was the first one , you know . |
| 30 | I got a letter to say dad was in hospital and we had a buzz bomb and it was n't too bad and er do n't worry . |