Example sentences of "and [adv] it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nell would never rest until she could get closer to confirm her worst suspicions , and paradoxically it was the woman in her that provided the intensity of emotion that would let nothing stand in her way . |
| 2 | I finally spotted a young man and a girl dressed as she 'd said she would be in shalwar kameez , a short tunic over long trousers , the traditional Muslim attire ; a cool white scarf around her head and a long coat , and luckily it was Yasmin . |
| 3 | I knew from my family history I was likely to be vulnerable to cancer and luckily it was diagnosed and treated in time . |
| 4 | When Nicholas was told to leave the television off , he kept putting it on , and eventually it was left on — to give his parents a bit of peace . |
| 5 | Thalberg was interested but thought that it was not quite MGM 's thing as that studio was moving away from its earlier interest in realistic films towards glossier entertainment , and eventually it was Chaplin who arranged the film 's release through United Artists , although Vidor had to mortgage his every possession before firm backing was achieved . |
| 6 | The castle was in such a state of disrepair that they decided not to spend money on it , and eventually it was demolished . |
| 7 | The mini-skirt spread through the western world from many centres ; it appeared in Oxford Street , London , long before it reached Oxford Street , Swansea , and presumably it was seen in Chicago , Illinois , an appreciable time before it dazzled the male eyes of the " city " of Muddy in the south of the same state . |
| 8 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that his earlier answer emphasised once again how essential and right it was for the Government to stand up against allowing homosexuality in the armed forces ? |
| 9 | You were n't even born when it folded — and besides it was an English magazine . ’ |
| 10 | This would bring financial pressure to bear on his friends and family , and besides it was profitable . |
| 11 | There was nothing so cosily malicious , once it was mutually accepted , as dead love , and besides it was plain Dotty had a thing going with Fairchild . |
| 12 | But she had an old-fashioned regard for the truth ; and besides it was time that she gave Strauss another chance . |
| 13 | ‘ And besides it was a shock to the system — I really believed you capable of all those awful ideas ! ’ |
| 14 | As I looked closer they began to open their wings , and suddenly it was a though purple brooches had been pinned about the bracken to catch the sunlight . |
| 15 | Every second it was growing louder , and suddenly it was no longer a small wind , it was a fearsome swooshing whooshing whiffling snorting noise that sounded as though some gigantic creature was breathing heavily through its nose as it galloped towards him . |
| 16 | We rose over the shoulder " of a hill , and suddenly it was there beneath us , looking glorious with the afternoon light sparkling on its rippled surface . |
| 17 | Usually they hopped on and pumped away and suddenly it was over . |
| 18 | And suddenly it was n't a play any more . |
| 19 | It just sank slowly and steadily below the ocean 's horizon , and suddenly it was gone . |
| 20 | She had done nothing to deserve Deana 's petty jibes , and suddenly it was too much . |
| 21 | But we dropped our guard , lost concentration and suddenly it was 2–2 . ’ |
| 22 | And so it was that Ursula met Justin , the writer 's moody adolescent brother , and ran away with him . |
| 23 | And so it was not with any special disappointment that Tate envisaged how Eliot 's message , his distinctively American apprehension of Europe , might thereafter be conveyed less in poems than in his conduct of The Criterion , the magazine he had begun to edit in 1923 : |
| 24 | And so it was reasonable for Crane and Winters , who in the twenties was reaching for this style in his own poems , to call such writing ‘ imagist ’ . |
| 25 | And so it was with the Notting Hill Gate Classic cinema around 1969 . |
| 26 | I was keen to give it a go because Leicester are one of the top clubs , and so it was n't something I could refuse , was it ? |
| 27 | And so it was envisaged that the former coaling and oiling stations of Gibraltar , Malta , Port Said , Suez , Aden , Bombay , Colombo , Penang , Singapore and Hong Kong would become air staging posts as well in the post-imperial era . |
| 28 | De Gaulle was not immortal , and so it was only a question of time before further attempts could be made to find a sheltered anchorage off the Western European shore . |
| 29 | And so it was that on the first Monday after New Year , about midnight , we found ourselves on an icy road in County Cavan heading for the checkpoint , having just driven up from Dun Laoghaire , where we had disembarked from the Holyhead ferry . |
| 30 | And so it was . |