Example sentences of "[coord] it [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it was for the production crew working on the new children 's series The Borrowers . |
| 2 | Mandamus , in any case discretionary , he was told , would not issue to no purpose ; and it was to no purpose to suggest that there were any such grounds on which the enactment of parliamentary legislation could be resisted ( Ex p . |
| 3 | Before her brief exposure to pop stardom , she served an apprenticeship to a still-life photographer , and it was to the camera that she eventually returned , specialising in record covers and rock portraits . |
| 4 | The three doors of this were really long mirrors , and it was to the wardrobe that Miss Rene went and , opening it , she lifted down a hanger from which hung a dress and coat . |
| 5 | The occasion for the controversy was the foundation of a central agency to produce goods for sale by Co-operative stores ; and it was to the workers in the agency 's factories that the question related . |
| 6 | It was to the Carlton as well as the Whip 's Office that Robert Sanders went to hear the news and discuss political events , and it was to the Carlton too that he went for recreation when the business of the House was too tedious to be borne any longer . |
| 7 | However , part-time teachers also make a very significant contribution and it was to the consideration of their needs that Haycocks II was addressed . |
| 8 | Razno have buying experts for every conceivable item required by Russia , and it was to the carpet expert that Fraser was introduced . |
| 9 | This was my first poem ever written and it was for a daffodil tea in our church . |
| 10 | ‘ If you 've got the money and it was for a favour lasting a day or two , then why do n't you just tell him the arrangement is ended and let Barbara Coleman leave ? ’ |
| 11 | From late 1813 trade improved , and it was for a time in 1814 brisk again . |
| 12 | whilst , if a privilege existed , it was up to the House to decide whether there had been a breach , the existence of the privilege in the first place was for the common law to decide and it was for the courts , and not the House , to declare the common law . |
| 13 | They could only speak Greek to the Romans , and it was for the Romans to decide whether they wanted an interpreter . |
| 14 | He was looking at a fine for parking too long on a meter at the Pier Head and it was for the staggering sum of £720 . |
| 15 | And it was with a certain indifference that , six minutes later , Chelsea hoisted a long ball under which Kerry Dixon loitered . |
| 16 | Gareth 's ‘ BACK FOR GRUB ’ message was still pinned to the corkboard , and it was with a distinct sense of release that I remembered I 'd said that I would go back for his camera . |
| 17 | ‘ Will you be going to Somerset too ? ’ she asked and it was with a sense of relief that she saw him shake his head . |
| 18 | She read with great attention , few dues escaped her , and it was with a suppressed little scream of excitement and fear that this large , lonely girl would guess the murderer three or four chapters before the end . |
| 19 | They were moving in a timeless hemisphere , and it was with a deep feeling of contentment that she descended back into reality . |
| 20 | Alas , they had no high chairs for nine month old Daniel , and it was with a sinking heart that I picked up the menu , while trying to hold the baby and prevent toddler Michael from pulling off the tablecloth . |
| 21 | Only one of the many newspapers I read mentioned the fact that the assailant was black and it was with the most extreme difficulty that I was able to ascertain from reporters and policemen , who all refused to be named , that the callous passers-by were also black . |
| 22 | ‘ Natty suddenly called out , ‘ Look massa ’ ; in an instant the air before us seemed literally filled with a dense mass of these birds , which had suddenly rose from under the trees at his exclamation ; we had scarcely time to raise our guns before they were seventy or eighty yards off ; our united discharge , however , brought down eight additional specimens , all of which being merely winged and fluttering about , attracted the attention of our kangaroo dogs , and it was with the greatest difficulty that they could be prevented from tearing them to pieces ; in the midst of the scramble , a kite , with the utmost audacity , came to the attack , and would doubtless , in spite of our presence , have carried off his share , had not the contents of my second barrel stopped his career . |
| 23 | And I ha I was n't very familiar with Nottingham , then , but I went and erm we crossed this park , and it was at a big house , there , tailors were always in rather out of the way places , and er he 'd just got fixed up . |
| 24 | Only the north side of the scheme was carried out in 1825–6 as the Privy Council Offices and the Board of Trade , and it was at the Treasury 's instigation that Seward in 1833 produced a scheme to house various governmental offices in a block on the south side of the street , following Soane 's lines . |
| 25 | The figures were required each month , and it was at the third month that the worst discrepancy came . |
| 26 | And it was at the office … that she met the man who said … |
| 27 | And it was at the trekkers ' hut eight days before that we 'd met our porters with their dzos , Dzos — pronounced ‘ Joes ’ — are great hairy pack animals , a cross between yaks and cows . |
| 28 | The two have users in common and it was at the request of some large accounts that the relationship was formed . |
| 29 | It was not going to be easy to get any other candidate , and it was at the same time impossible to let the seat go by default . |
| 30 | But when I actually erm got into the social work side of it , and i saw what the needs there were , erm and it was at the particular time too when you know , lots of teachers were sort of being made redundant , or at at least the er the numbers in schools were n't so high . |