Example sentences of "[vb past] it was [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Clearly visible as an up-lighter caught it was the strong profile of Martin Ward , with the Dyson family a few steps behind . |
| 3 | He put up his hands and found it was a long strand of seaweed . |
| 4 | But she found it was a different school with different faces . |
| 5 | When it came to her turn to scramble ashore , she found it was no easy task to move the balance beam which swung the gates open . |
| 6 | She paced the garden ; she found it was an exact square . |
| 7 | Marx condemned capitalism because it frustrated human potential and self-actualization , but believed it was a necessary stage in human dialectical development . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought — believed it was a passing affair … ’ |
| 9 | Er certainly Forest believed it was and Ward believed it was a free kick you could tell by the expression on his face . |
| 10 | Sinead — even in that mad moment — believed it was the right thing to do . ’ |
| 11 | She said she gave it to her daughter because she believed it was the only drug which could help alleviate her condition . |
| 12 | She herself claimed the 8th , the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary , and in this , if in nothing else , that most powerful of Protestant reformers , John Knox , agreed with her , while one of her staunchest supporters , the Catholic John Leslie , bishop of Ross , believed it was the earlier date . |
| 13 | Do you know , when television came it was the biggest event in our lives , for women . |
| 14 | The new dealer assumed it was a genuine stock . |
| 15 | Possibly someone assumed it was a concentrated form of oxygen , and therefore invigorating . |
| 16 | ‘ I assumed it was the deliberate policy of an amateur sport towards a ‘ public service ’ . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ And you knew Feargal , knew his name , knew he came from Slane , and assumed it was the same family . ’ |
| 18 | In Canada the British not only deluded themselves that they had defeated the axiom ; they also imagined it was the federal ingredient that had enabled them to do the trick . |
| 19 | THE wayward Marquess of Blandford last night claimed it was a lost love which led him into drug addiction . |
| 20 | He claimed it was the fabled treaure , buried in 1945 , of the Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I guessed it was the bald man 's son . |
| 23 | They guessed it was an emotional response to another womb death ; though , heaven knew , they would hardly have wanted a child , in their mid-forties , even if Charsky 's infertility could be miraculously cured . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I figured it was the best way to keep the interaction between the guitar and the lyrics , which is the whole point for me . |
| 26 | In cotton weaving rates in 1808 had fallen so low that weavers were reported to be working upwards of fifteen hours , even to twenty , but as an employer remarked it was an impossible situation to sustain and a man would not choose to work eighteen hours if he could live from the labour of twelve . |
| 27 | The plates flickered past , solemn and beautiful faces , sleeping soldiers , angels carrying flutes , and then a page fell open more easily because , slipped into it , she found a sheet of the villa 's notepaper on which was typed what she at first thought to be a shopping-list , but , as she began to read , discovered it was no such thing . |
| 28 | ‘ We heard it was a good school , ’ said Clarissa , acidly . |
| 29 | Masklin decided it was a diplomatic time to wake up . |
| 30 | 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 . |