Example sentences of "was [adj] [coord] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as I said , it , it was er , it , it , it , it was , it was denigrated but it had its own strengths , and the Margaret case er , is , is one of them . |
| 2 | Where he exceeded expectation and all precedents was in making the ban total , but this clearly was just the element which was negotiable and it had the effect of extending the king 's patronage of both church and laity . |
| 3 | The poor girl 's hair was mud-caked but it had once been well combed and dressed with oil . |
| 4 | It was his nickname for her ; he had started calling her that when she was small and it had stuck even though she was now a respectable five-feet-seven . |
| 5 | Its mouth was open and it had an expression on its face of someone who is going to have a lot of difficulty explaining what they have just seen , especially to themselves . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't think anyone let it in , I 'd guess the door was open or it had a key . ’ |
| 7 | It was rectangular and it had a lid , like a shoe box , but it was longer . |
| 8 | The stage was wide but it had no depth . |