Example sentences of "[conj] it [was/were] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept telling myself that it was all a mistake , some kind of ghastly mistake . |
| 2 | Basically , he avoids discussion of his amazing wartime adventures , preferring to indicate that it was all a mistake . |
| 3 | How could he tell her that it was all a mistake ? |
| 4 | You 'll explain that it was all a mistake . ’ |
| 5 | Just before the verdict was announced he told Central South that he never attempted to gas his wife — and that it was all a plot by her to ruin his life . |
| 6 | Would I perhaps welcome the security of a helicopter , or welcome the security of waking up in bed to find that it was all a dream and I had n't actually gone hill-walking at all because I had a date with Gerard Depardieu ? |
| 7 | The more I think about it , the more I veer to the conclusion that it was all a fantasy . |
| 8 | I thought for a moment that she had been re-reading " Das Kapital " in her spare time , but I suspect that it was all a charade . |
| 9 | She says that it was all a question of remembering rules and methods . |
| 10 | And there was a suspicion in Britain that it was all a bit of a plot to er to kind of isolate Turkey . |
| 11 | I had my hair cut very very short and I just all of a sudden realised that it was all a bit serious ; that something else was about to happen . |
| 12 | He fell to thinking of the shape in the well-pit , and then dropped into a drowsy half-dream , in which El-ahrairah said that it was all a trick of his to disguise himself as Poison-tree and put the stones in the wall , to engage Strawberry 's attention while he himself was getting acquainted with Nildro-hain . |
| 13 | He was almost sure that it was all a revelation to her and he watched her in sad silence as she covered her face and shook with sobs . |
| 14 | In vain did he protest to the shopkeeper that it was all a joke . |
| 15 | The whole jape took on a rather serious complexion when the police refused to accept that it was all a joke . |
| 16 | That first day or two , I kept on thinking he would telephone , that it was all a sort of whim . |
| 17 | When Rebecca Kraemer remarked , as the last murmurs of the slow movement died away , that it was such a pity the conductor was still following the now-discredited Haas edition , she was telling everyone within earshot — which included half the audience — everything that Alison could have wanted them to know but naturally would n't have dreamt of mentioning herself . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've always thought you were so pretty , and that it was such a shame to hide that behind those thick glasses , and that studious pallor . |
| 19 | And she shuddered at the chore the whole thing would be in the winter — if she lasted that long — seeing that it was such a drag in the mildness of summer . |
| 20 | And he , he thought that it was such a touch of class about it . |
| 21 | It was easy to imagine how the tiny volume might have been overlooked , more difficult to conceive that it was half a millennium old . |
| 22 | Nora was not nearly so impressed by that sort of thing as her cousin but she admitted to herself that it was unlikely a man from such a background would be deceiving Constance . |
| 23 | It must surely be easier now than it was half a century ago , thanks to the greater contact the public have with sportsmen generally . |
| 24 | ‘ So it was all a waste of time , ’ she ended brightly . |
| 25 | Greg offered to see Margaret Seymour-Strachey home , but she said she was much better now , and it was such a relief to get things off her chest like that . |
| 26 | I could not believe I was not the only one and it was such a relief . |
| 27 | On the , on the he was on the and it was such a laugh it really was , good laugh . |
| 28 | you see , and he was , he , he probably brought me into the world , you see but , er you see , and Mrs erm , you see , she was married to Doctor and he used to come up to see my father and we had a different door then door being that 's got a yale lock on now but he he 'd say , hello Frank , you know always so you got , oh he was so nice and it was such a shame that he died |
| 29 | ‘ They tried to explain that it was only sand and it was all a stunt , but it was lit up with radioactivity signs and we take our environmental responsibilities very seriously . ’ |
| 30 | His eyes kept looking away over one of my shoulders or the other , never meeting my gaze , and I got the impression that like his wife he was constantly waiting for something important to happen , expecting someone to arrive at any moment , as though they both could n't believe what had happened and it was all a dream or a ghastly joke and they were just waiting for Clare to come gangling through the front door , kicking off muddy green wellies and loudly demanding tea . |