Example sentences of "and [adv] it was [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she had an old-fashioned regard for the truth ; and besides it was time that she gave Strauss another chance . |
| 2 | But will the form teacher be able to do as you would do in English and say , but look when you did that written piece on so and so it was goo , the form teacher will not have that detailed knowledge that you will have |
| 3 | Erm and so it was sort of going to the corner shop and buying what they could , er when they had the money , and sometimes they would borrow money from somebody whose benefit came on a different day . |
| 4 | And perhaps it was time to play the trump card up his sleeve . |
| 5 | We were nearly a mile and a quarter out , the set was another quarter away from us , and already it was fleecy at the top , throwing up spray a hundred yards in the air . |
| 6 | THE MONTHS PASSED , and soon it was autumn . |
| 7 | Funny how it had been malai policy to murder him and , earlier , the young men in the television crew , and now it was policy to stand them , or their kind , a round at the bar . |
| 8 | ‘ He was n't , ’ said my mother , perhaps because she had concurred for too long and now it was time for contradiction . |
| 9 | And now it was time , because , at night on his seat in the square , three newspapers did not keep out the cold . |
| 10 | and then it was salad |
| 11 | My mum sa , and then it was dad me . |
| 12 | By the end of the week there was just a simple theory test left where we were asked questions about winds , how to overtake and so on — and then it was certificate time . |
| 13 | And then it was midnight . |
| 14 | Coffee was next , and then it was time for the bill . |
| 15 | My mother had a big spread waiting for us that evening When we got cleared up , and then it was time to report to the UDR base for patrol duty . |
| 16 | And then it was time to go . |
| 17 | Surgeries brought several more clients in , there was no more talk of Robert , and then it was time to get ready for Giles . |
| 18 | over and then it tied it and then it was cu , then it fell down . |
| 19 | Minutes passed , hours , the rest of that day , and then it was evening again and the prospect of night , long and lonely , haunted her . |
| 20 | Dear Miss Royal had hers fitted , and then it was Grandad 's turn . |
| 21 | First it was Grandad Oaks who dominated his life and then it was Father . |
| 22 | When it started to get busy on the course he went to the practice ground and then it was pitch and putt , chipping — a lot of practice with his short game . |
| 23 | And then it was summer to put ankle socks on she would n't take them off then . |
| 24 | so , every now and again it was sort of , it would sort of flash and say the server was being accessed and sort of brrp it was gone . |