Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [conj] it was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children travelled from the surrounding villages of Elstronwick , Lelley , Fitling , Flinton and Danthorpe until it was closed in 1960 . |
| 2 | The following day Maxwell 's sons , Ian and Kevin , resigned from the boards of MGN and MCC after it was revealed that an estimated £350 million was missing from the MGN pension fund and that another £126 million had been used to secure loans to Maxwell private companies . |
| 3 | It was always easier to listen to Mick and Paddy than it was to think . |
| 4 | Illegally poached ivory is smuggled out of Africa via the United Arab Emirates and , up until mid-1989 , was sold on to Japan , Hong Kong , Taiwan , Korea and Singapore where it was made into trinkets , carvings and piano keys . |
| 5 | This was the most fundamental fact about the movies in Britain and America and it was to remain the most important fact throughout the great years of the cinema 's hegemony . |
| 6 | He taught singing to the girls at Josias Priest 's school in Chelsea and wrote the epilogue to Dido and Aeneas when it was presented there in 1689–90 . |