Example sentences of "it was the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the weekend on which Katherine had arranged to fly to London to visit Portia . |
| 2 | I think it was the Battle of , she came down through here and she stayed the night at House . |
| 3 | maybe it was the battle of the Somme , I do n't remember , but I remember I had to go carrying the basket , and mother would go and call on these poor people who had lost their their families . |
| 4 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |
| 5 | It was the contrast between Mexican and Chinese jades that stimulated European scientists to investigate their respective compositions . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was the contrast between this leggy blonde journalist who claimed she was Polish and his aunt , so pale , so retiring . |
| 7 | Perhaps it was the contrast between this creature and my normal self . |
| 8 | It was the shape of things to come . |
| 9 | In design it was the shape of things to come , the forerunner of the big , luxury stands at Goodison Park , Anfield , Stamford Bridge and other grounds of today . |
| 10 | It was the shape of a helmet , the way you always think cops ' heads should be when they take off their helmets . |
| 11 | It was the shape of a football . |
| 12 | Yes ( it was the phone at the Pizza Hut , Tottenham Court Road ) . |
| 13 | Alec wore a navy-blue romper suit — the outfit of a French workman , or indeed that of some little new-wave narcissist at a C. L. & S. screening It was the sight of him in his issued clothing that made me sense just how far he had fallen . |
| 14 | It was the sight of the huge animal that was standing over Sir Hugo . |
| 15 | It was the sight of the stranger , the professor , that stopped her in her tracks . |
| 16 | The knot of demonstrators summoned up a ragged cry and waved their tattered banners , but whether it was the sight of Edwina Currie or of Virginia Bottomley was not immediately evident . |
| 17 | ‘ It was the chance of a lifetime , ’ he says . |
| 18 | With the titans of 1945 gone , the stumbling old guard of the Conservative Party finally tripped up : it was the chance for the lower orders of the middle classes to bite back . |
| 19 | I told him it was the size of it all disturbed me . |
| 20 | It was all so sudden that the universe had no time to lose the smoothness it had when it was the size of an atom . |
| 21 | It was the size of a double garage , open on one side , built of stone and roofed with tiles . |
| 22 | ( Conversely , if we compressed the Earth until it was the size of a marble , it would automatically become a black hole ) . |
| 23 | Although it was the size of a pantry , they endlessly clung to the bars and clamoured to be let out . |
| 24 | There was some kind of housecat in there , but it was the size of a moose , had white skunkmarks down its back , and the buds of vestigial extra heads hanging in its neckfur . |
| 25 | And most people were willing to accept his leadership because the rewards were so great : it was exciting : it was the size of the thing , the scale he brought to it . ’ |
| 26 | Sometimes when I , I write a poem I want to create a particular mood erm giving the piece erm a shape , a , a definite shape or just a shadowy shape erm and the overcoat in er Bon Jour Monsieur Gaugin , I found very , very expressive and the starting point for , for this particular poem I 'll hand this round to you know , with the name of the , the front , right I do n't , has anybody , if you already know this picture , does anybody actually know it already ? , no I start with the overcoat obviously erm very expressive , not just because it was , people wear over , overcoats in cold days , but it was the size of the coat and the shape of it and , and it gave me a weight , I felt , er I felt a very definite mood erm about this picture because of the coat and it was a , er a ejective mood that I , that I felt from that , and the stick in the erm hands of the women over the bridge gave me the sound for , for this poem would you like me to read as the , the thing being passed around , would that be ok ? |
| 27 | It was the size of , it was a way up . |
| 28 | It was the size of a beetle , but mechanical . |
| 29 | It was the boy under me . |
| 30 | Book IX was by far the most thumbed section of Eliot 's Odyssey , and it was the story of the Cyclops that ‘ savage man ’ which he read most attentively . |