Example sentences of "[vb past] it [was/were] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ate pork chops in tomato sauce with us that evening , and claimed it was the first good meal he had had in six months . |
| 2 | The Board 's General Manager Tom Frawley said today that the decision to close the Shantallow home had been a difficult one , but claimed it was the only possible course of action ‘ in light of the increase over the last few years in the level of nursing home accommodation and the reduced demand for residential accommodation which has come about as a result of improvements in housing in general and the development of sheltered accommodation and other community alternatives . ’ |
| 3 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 4 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 5 | When the 28-bedroom Sundial opened it was the first new hotel in the town for 240 years . |
| 6 | ‘ Christ , ’ breathed Billy , ‘ you were lucky there mate , that was a pretty big un' for a night tide , I heard it was a twenty seven footer . |
| 7 | The inquest at Cheltenham County Court heard it was a clear sunny day with little traffic on the road . |
| 8 | Yeah I heard it were a right frigging had an argument with Chinese bloke |
| 9 | Kate knew it was no good resisting , so she meekly allowed him to shepherd her out of the flat down to the basement where he kept his car . |
| 10 | I thought it was a damn silly place to park if someone wanted to take a leak in the bushes . |
| 11 | Well he 's probably just caught him on the back of on the back of the calf but er I thought it was as you say I thought it was a nice sharp incisive tackle . |
| 12 | I thought it was a nice sunny day yesterday , how can it be foggy ? |
| 13 | Thought it was a familiar These trees have er taken nice have n't they ? |
| 14 | Mr Fletcher , 64 , from Ormskirk , said : ‘ I thought it was a good snap and sent it off but I did n't think any more about it . ’ |
| 15 | I thought it was a sixteen hundred , yeah |
| 16 | ‘ He said it was a good dry cellar , ’ said Pat . |
| 17 | He came in one afternoon and started painting black and white stripes round the fuselage and wings , when asked the reason for this he said it was a new allied marking . |
| 18 | He said it was a devastating mental handicap : ‘ You 'll find her a terrible burden on your life and your family . |
| 19 | Fielding said it was a mob joint and I believed him : brocade , matt light , as quiet as a church . |
| 20 | William said it was the best political occasion he could remember since he had heard Aneurin Bevan speak in South Wales during the war . |
| 21 | He said it was the crucial first step in the process of removing the scars from the Lanarkshire landscape . |
| 22 | You said it was the only reasonable thing to do , yet now , when at last I agree , you say it 's too late . ’ |
| 23 | I said it was the sudden fresh air that had done it . |
| 24 | It got more painful — so I went to a different doctor , who said it was an infected sebaceous cyst and gave me stronger antibiotics . |