Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the client was in a position to show that it had received independent legal advice to the effect that the law was uncertain it went ahead alone to achieve its chosen objective . |
| 2 | Zack was relieved it had ended without blows . |
| 3 | Although its body was serpentine it moved , not by slithering along the ground , but by rearing the forward half of its body along in a coil . |
| 4 | Julia found herself wanting to get to know her better , quite certain by then that whatever there had been between Suvarov and Felicity while his first wife was alive it had not been the kind of affair David had assumed . |
| 5 | The trick here was never less than eight feet wide and in some places where the ground was soft it spread to thirty or forty feet . |
| 6 | If the Doctor was present it meant there was an extreme danger to this planet . |
| 7 | While the fire was small it filled the groundfloor of the building with smoke , which had started to take a hold of the first floor when Cleveland Fire Brigade arrived . |