Example sentences of "[noun] it was [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Cos I had an awful experience about ooh , four years ago , I had this old Moggy Morris Minor coming along very slowly north of Hull it was and this chap and his about finished work you know , so I going past this cri , there 's a cricket match going on and he was looking like , I could see and his girlfriend !
2 Their general demeanour was like that of elderly clubmen determined that it should be clearly understood that they were men of the world , fully alive to all the tricks of your Tom , Dick and Harry ; yet their actual questions and comments revealed that they had not the remotest notion what sort of a world it was that these East End people they were listening to actually lived in , or how to evaluate their characters and the plausibility of what they said .
3 In firm B this was because the senior partner had the larger company clients ; in firm D it was because larger clients were more rarely involved in probate matters .
4 It was a part of the prophecy of disintegration and chaos to be expected in the latter days ; within that context it was but one detail in a large picture , but here it was all , it was an answer .
5 At that time it was but one element in the whole decision-making process of what was I going to do with my life .
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