Example sentences of "[coord] it [was/were] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ghost of Linfield past has been laid to rest and it was former team manager Eric Bowyer who began the exorcism — in somewhat bizarre circumstances . |
| 2 | Everton 's crisp passing bewildered Tottenham , and it was that fellow Beardsley running the show . |
| 3 | And it was all girdle scones scones muffins cream scones currant scones pancakes crumpets treacle crumpets treacle pancakes and all this . |
| 4 | but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages |
| 5 | But there were certainly trolley buses when I went there in nineteen thirty one and trolley buses first came in in nineteen twenty three and it was all trolley buses by nineteen twenty six . |
| 6 | and any way went down and answer it and I could hear him talking , erm , you remember he bought this aeroplane back from Americ erm from Australia , this one of and it was Australian Air Force one that he had on Australian 's , erm came back and stayed in England for a little while and then he went back to Australia , just killed himself . |
| 7 | And it was German-born midfielder Thomas Dooley , goalscorer in the upset 2–0 win over England , who was the American hero again with two goals against the nation who ignored him . |
| 8 | so those few that entered most of them got prizes and it was three police forces that entered and they all got awards . |
| 9 | Andy Partner appeared as a second half substitute for fellow youth team centre-half Paul Flowers , but it was second substitute Steve Ball who was quickest into the action . |
| 10 | But it was new boy Matt who put the gloss on Oxford 's performance . |
| 11 | At the other end , Durnin missed out for Oxford in the dying minutes , but it was new Sunderland player manager Terry Butcher 's night . |
| 12 | But it was skewed development priorities that forced people into a continued dependence on livestock in the first place and huge , often foreign-owned ranches that pushed those people and their herds onto fragile , marginal land . |
| 13 | days you see , like I was out Monday I was busy all day Monday and then I Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday here yet I was busy , but it was all brain work |