Example sentences of "and [verb] [conj] it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually Frankie and I were called in by Mum and told to get a wash and change as it was nearly time to go . |
| 2 | USL , reportedly working along similar lines ( UX No 383 ) , has declined to comment officially , and asked whether it was developing its own solution or buying the technology in from elsewhere , director of low-end Unix systems , Bill Traber , said ‘ I ca n't answer that . ’ |
| 3 | As a friend of Linde 's , I was rather embarrassed , however , when I was later sent his paper by a scientific journal and asked whether it was suitable for publication . |
| 4 | Elsie joined me on the river bank and asked if it was hot enough for me . |
| 5 | I cheekily went across to a detached cottage and asked if it was possible to get a bite to eat . |
| 6 | Eventually , thunder rumbled in the distance , and he looked up and asked if it was gun-fire ; when I said I thought not , he moved to the door saying , ‘ If Mr Colin recommends them , I 'll take all three ’ . |
| 7 | I filed that away and asked if it was all right for the girls to stay until the doctors had done their rounds . |
| 8 | Keeping a big horse is expensive ; I know , I 've got one , and when I worked out what he cost me to keep I got to £50 per week and stopped because it was too frightening . |
| 9 | Suffering fever , blindness and paralysis , they reached Lake Tanganyika in 1857 but it was Speke who eventually found Lake Victoria and realized that it was the reservoir which fed the great river . |
| 10 | As the struggle progressed he came to see the inadequacies of the term and realized that it was too constricted in its meaning and gave rise to confusion and misunderstanding . |
| 11 | That statement was swiftly followed by a countersuit against Phar-Mor 's management , claiming unspecified damages and maintaining that it was unable to audit the company accurately because its financial statements were altered . |
| 12 | I saw no point in lying to an already acerbic-looking policeman , and agreed that it was . |
| 13 | And seeing as it was my brainchild , would you not say it was possibly the best commercial of all time ? |
| 14 | Corbett stared at the hard-eyed French envoy and realised that it was impossible to press the matter . |
| 15 | He discovered that Bob was twenty-five , four years his junior , and realised that it was the first time since his brother Joe 's marriage , when they were seventeen and twenty , that he had had a companion of roughly his own age . |
| 16 | Summoned to collect a donation from an address on the east side of the city , a few days before the Election , I noticed a poster in the window , and realised that it was the home of a candidate ( now the Member ) for Leith . |
| 17 | One five-year-old , for instance , when asked to make one pile so it was tiv , picked up one coin from it , placed it between the two piles , and announced that it was tiv . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , the World Health Organization ( WHO ) called for US$3,000,000 to purchase medical supplies [ see also p. 38218 ] , while UNICEF advanced US$1,000,000 from its Emergency Relief Fund and announced that it was seeking a further US$5,000,000 to restore village water systems . |
| 19 | I took my revolver out of my pocket , and checked that it was ready to fire . |
| 20 | A 9,700-ton coaster lies battered and broken after it was hit by gale-force winds and huge waves which lashed the south coast yesterday . |
| 21 | Abolitionists successfully used the convention drastically to reduce the freedom of parliamentary action and to claim that it was more representative of national opinion than the legislature . |
| 22 | To us , the black laver bread looked dreadful , poisonous , but we understood and respected that it was something Welsh , something special . |
| 23 | One is forced to ask what OSF had to gain and wonders if it was n't some kind of supralegal manoeuvre to put pressure on Addamax and Sun because they 've got something on the OSF contingent . |
| 24 | When at last a waiter said ‘ Your table is ready , ’ Sara looked at her watch again and found that it was nine-fifteen . |
| 25 | In the opening decades of the 19th century Glasgow woke up and found that it was no longer an ancient market place reached by tree-lined avenues . |
| 26 | Euan MacKie excavated the platform and found that it was artificial . |
| 27 | He himself had received letters from all over England , seeking his advice on questions of conscience , and found that it was unsatisfactory for Anglicans to have to rely on Roman Catholic literature for guidance in such matters . |
| 28 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 29 | … we attended at the School on Monday the 17th [ July , 1833 ] and found that it was divided into six classes , the first being composed of three boys only whose study was the Classics , the second of about 20 who were instructed in the Latin Grammar , and the remaining four classes were composed of boys whose education was confined to Reading , Writing , Arithmetic , and English Grammar , in which instruction the boys in the two senior classes also participated . " |
| 30 | ‘ We should n't either of us have anything to regret , David , ’ she said at last , and found that it was true . |