Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] then " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must have , for it was late then , the pubs long closed , and she was still in the city centre . |
| 2 | in fact I 'm not even sure it was female then . |
| 3 | It was easy then , my darling . |
| 4 | It was easy then , as the horseman saw , for the stoat to make its kill . |
| 5 | It was hot then but on the race day it was cloudy and cool . |
| 6 | ‘ It was dark then . ’ |
| 7 | And it was small then — five years ago . |
| 8 | I if it was necessary then it would go , same as everything else . |
| 9 | I 've always I 've always felt If I thought it was necessary then that 's the end of it er as far as I know . |
| 10 | ‘ I knew it was real then , Rachel . |
| 11 | So it was fascinating then , the other night ? |
| 12 | And er there might be some sausage , a it , it was alright then . |
| 13 | But like , it was alright then because like means that you can changed up in this one corner of the changing room all the time and so I 'd got my shirt on while I was putting my T-shirt on like for the reason that my bra strap was bust , not actually because I 'd got a gigantic love bite around my neck ! |
| 14 | Dad phoned me up twice from your house this morning and could n't get no answer here , he said , I was sat here so I can here the phone go , anyway he went around again later on , tried it , and it was alright then . |
| 15 | It was unfortunate then that Virgin 's case should be complicated by , and ultimately hinge upon , another , far less public , contractual dispute . |
| 16 | I mean , it was hard then to get anything going at all in the way of income . |
| 17 | But it was hard then to perform the necessary physiological experiments to test the idea . |
| 18 | Damned quiet in the dining room , he 'd thought , as he crossed the hall , and if Bea Smith was in a room and it was quiet then something pretty peculiar had to be happening . |
| 19 | ‘ It was quiet then , and we had the lock to ourselves . |
| 20 | But it was beautiful then . |
| 21 | Brixton , it was lovely then ! |
| 22 | Maxim scouted the cottage to make sure it was empty then helped George over the comer of the dry-stone wall where it seemed strongest and guided him under a face-high clothes-line strung across the little lawn . |
| 23 | Should of done it last night when it was empty then . |
| 24 | Perhaps it was different then ; I do n't know . |
| 25 | ‘ It was different then . |
| 26 | It was significant then that F.J. Osborn 's New towns after the war , first published in 1918 , was revised and reissued in 1942 with little amendment . |
| 27 | ‘ If it was true then this would be a land of roses . |
| 28 | It was plain then that we did not much like the French way . |
| 29 | It was clear then that Noriega only held on to power by two threads — popular apathy and the loyalty of the Panama Defence Force . |
| 30 | It was clear then that the staff would not only have to work extremely hard , and be at their most alert , they would also have to be unusually flexible . |