Example sentences of "it was an [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an operation he had never done before , and it was schrecklich difficult . |
| 2 | It was an idea she had thought of in a vague way yesterday , when she had seen the extent of the gravel ridge that ran beneath the two estates . |
| 3 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 4 | More than anything , though , the May 1990 elections provided voters with an opportunity to make their views known in the relative calm of the ballot box , and it was an opportunity they took in unprecedented numbers . |
| 5 | And , in the heightened mood brought on by the success of his performance , it was an invitation he felt inclined to take up . |
| 6 | It was an issue he preferred to keep quiet during his lifetime because he feared that it might have an adverse effect on his family . |
| 7 | It was an attitude she had encountered before admittedly — from people who assumed that because she had grown up in hotels , she had been able to enjoy all the comforts afforded to the customers . |
| 8 | ‘ It was an abortion you wanted , was n't it ? ’ |
| 9 | It was an option she did n't usually have , kissing a gorgeous man on board her own ship . |
| 10 | It was an impulse she did not question . |
| 11 | It was Paul 's obsessive jealousy which had diseased and finally destroyed her feelings for him , even though it was an emotion she had never fully understood — until now . |
| 12 | It was an arrangement we had I , I would n't phone in cos you have to wait three weeks for your wages if I phone in . |
| 13 | It was an argument they had had before , and one which she invariably won . |
| 14 | she did n't know it was an opera you see |
| 15 | " This is T. S. Eliot here , " he would say on the telephone ; it was an instrument he detested and when using it his voice had " a curiously strangled sound " . |
| 16 | ‘ I followed my instinct , it was an offer I found difficult to refuse . |