Example sentences of "[adj] and it was a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If either one of us wanted to sleep with other people then that should be OK and it was a question of something we could work out and that would not necessarily break the relationship even if in fact it actually did . |
| 2 | They started pecking one another and it was a job to get them stopped . |
| 3 | but of course erm as a sort of public to the er , er a gesture to the public erm but one stage during the war when things were getting a bit grim on the war front , it was decided that erm , we should work extra hours as erm , to show that we were pulling our weight , so we used to , instead of starting at nine o'clock until erm half past five , and working on Saturdays as well of course , erm , we had to start at half past eight and finish at six and it was a bit of a fiasco really because nobody erm , you know , well the end of the half past five you were pretty well tired out so erm the rest of the time |
| 4 | Later , Crawford generously conceded to Sherrin that the decision was right and it was a lesson in not using substandard material . |
| 5 | they sent it back , I think , I thought the twelve was , was quite good actually , I thought the twelve when they went up at twelve , but then when they changed it back to the junior and infants it was the elev , the eleven and it was a bit , I think it , you know eleven might be perhaps too young , I think twelve is a reasonable |
| 6 | The penalty seemed pretty clear-cut and it was a stroke of luck that they 'd just substituted Fashanu as he is their usual penalty taker ( pretty reliable from what I can recall ) . |
| 7 | That week I was doubled up with backache , was forty , felt sixty and it was a standing joke among our friends . |
| 8 | It could not have been better and it was a credit to the game of golf the way that the spectators reacted to both sides . |
| 9 | His Brazil Nut slabs were especially good and it was a shame when the business closed in about 1930 . |
| 10 | The relevant business of the taxpayer was the exploitation of film rights exercisable overseas and it was a business carried on in Hong Kong . |
| 11 | It were in the 1920s and it was a passenger train from Cleethorpes to Doncaster and the driver , well , he was a hard , fast driver and he was n't popular with firemen . |
| 12 | The other children were all special and it was a privilege to share a week in their lives . |