Example sentences of "[vb past] it [was/were] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And also you 'll like it because the cardinal who designed it was a practical joker and built in all sorts of extremely infantile jokes so that he could spray water onto his innocent friends while they were eating their dinner or trying to watch little masques . |
| 2 | He put up his hands and found it was a long strand of seaweed . |
| 3 | But she found it was a different school with different faces . |
| 4 | Marx condemned capitalism because it frustrated human potential and self-actualization , but believed it was a necessary stage in human dialectical development . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought — believed it was a passing affair … ’ |
| 6 | Er certainly Forest believed it was and Ward believed it was a free kick you could tell by the expression on his face . |
| 7 | The new dealer assumed it was a genuine stock . |
| 8 | Possibly someone assumed it was a concentrated form of oxygen , and therefore invigorating . |
| 9 | THE wayward Marquess of Blandford last night claimed it was a lost love which led him into drug addiction . |
| 10 | And Linighan 's teammates , astonished by his courage in heading home the winner in the dying seconds of extra-time while suffering two serious injuries , reckoned it was a just reward for the defender who has battled so long to rid himself of the ‘ million pound misfit ’ tag . |
| 11 | But though her mouth opened it was a silent entreaty and all she seemed able to do was cling to the top of her cage near where branches of trees hung and vainly try to say words that would not come . |
| 12 | ‘ Nearly fifty years later Mark Reeder , who is with us today , a helicopter pilot with Bristows , spotted the crash site , landed , too some photographs , and with the help of the Public Records Office , discovered it was a 627 Mossie . |
| 13 | ‘ We heard it was a good school , ’ said Clarissa , acidly . |
| 14 | Masklin decided it was a diplomatic time to wake up . |
| 15 | I decided it was a good idea to write things down rather than depending on the tape because erm I 'm not actually going to get round to transcribing the tape quickly enough to use it as minutes . |
| 16 | I decided it was a good time to ask him the final questions about Stapleton and the hound . |
| 17 | And I decided it was a successful briefing , you know . |
| 18 | You put a bit of pressure on its mandible , or lower beak , and if it broke it was a young bird . |
| 19 | so six months later Terry 's mother died it was a thousand pound gone up ! |
| 20 | But the BBC stressed it was a fictional drama as opposed to a documentary . |
| 21 | She turned and saw it was a young man quite obviously afflicted by Down 's syndrome who had called her . |
| 22 | It got closer and I saw it was a dark-coloured BMW . |
| 23 | Looking up he saw it was a different man from the one who had chosen not to see . |
| 24 | At first I thought it was a handkerchief , but when I stooped to pick it up I saw it was a cream-coloured glove ; and of all gloves , an elbow-length woman 's glove . |
| 25 | ‘ We felt it was a worthwhile cause as we ca n't stand cruelty to animals of any sort . |
| 26 | I felt it was a nice earner all the time and now , in hindsight , I wish we had n't frittered the money away so easily . |
| 27 | Then George Potter retired in 1966 , leaving this nucleus of magnolias , we felt it was a good foundation to build on , although we were careful to make a selection rather than a collection . |
| 28 | It was draining , but I was grateful to any journalists prepared to listen , even if it was obvious that some papers only felt it was a good story because of the ‘ love interest ’ . |
| 29 | He said that ‘ Every player has their price , if the offer were 2M Id have rejected it , but as it nudged 3M I felt it was a good deal for Leeds ’ . |
| 30 | He said that ‘ Every player has their price , if the offer were 2M Id have rejected it , but as it nudged 3M I felt it was a good deal for Leeds ’ . |