Example sentences of "[vb past] it was the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly visible as an up-lighter caught it was the strong profile of Martin Ward , with the Dyson family a few steps behind . |
| 2 | Sinead — even in that mad moment — believed it was the right thing to do . ’ |
| 3 | She said she gave it to her daughter because she believed it was the only drug which could help alleviate her condition . |
| 4 | ‘ I assumed it was the deliberate policy of an amateur sport towards a ‘ public service ’ . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He claimed it was the fabled treaure , buried in 1945 , of the Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita . |
| 7 | I guessed it was the bald man 's son . |
| 8 | You stopped because you both decided it was the right thing to do for you at the time . |
| 9 | ‘ He swore it was the genuine cross . |
| 10 | We are sorry Q.T. day had to be cancelled but because the weather conditions were so bad we felt it was the right thing to do . |
| 11 | In the meantime , he eventually sold the Company as its peak in 1987 , he had made another small fortune , and with some 30 aeroplanes and 80 pilots on the books he felt it was the right time to let it go . |
| 12 | She really wanted to know ; though it would be painful , she knew it was the only way . |
| 13 | whereas Caesar did n't take the crown because he was ambitious , he knew it was the right thing to do . |
| 14 | But I knew it would work , I knew it was the perfect register for it ; it was just a question of the right tonality and the right feeling . |
| 15 | Thérèse respectfully sent the nuns a faire-part , edged in black ; she knew it was the correct thing to do . |
| 16 | Would it be fair to say that you accepted his decision when you thought it was the right decision , regardless of whether he may have been depressed or he may have been under the influence of drugs or some other pressure ? |
| 17 | No brickbats for that , for neither of them did it out of a sense of malice , but merely because they thought it was the right thing to do , and no doubt also because they believed , quite wrongly , that to instil a sense of guilt into me would ultimately be for my good , If I did what they thought was wrong then I was made to feel that someone , usually them , had suffered . |
| 18 | I thought it was the front doorbell . |
| 19 | I wanted to run it because I thought it was the only way we stood a chance . |
| 20 | It 's lovely I thought it was the real thing . |
| 21 | I thought it was the other church , the one near the market , and I waited there till a quarter to twelve , and then I realized my mistake . |
| 22 | The final great act — for everyone thought it was the final act — took place on 16 November . |
| 23 | I thought it was the National Front actually |
| 24 | At the start of the campaign people thought it was the main issue being stressed by the Conservatives , but they soon changed their minds . |
| 25 | He never darkened its doors , but he thought it was the proper place for weddings and christenings and funerals , and he was always prepared to rig up lights for the annual parish nativity play , with a dimming spotlight to beam sentimentally on the Virgin Mary . |
| 26 | I thought it was the tragic comedy like life really . |
| 27 | For a moment she was confused ; she thought it was the thin man , and she could n't work out how he 'd got behind them . |
| 28 | There was a shrieking in her ears , so vibratingly shrill that for an instant she thought it was the whole Glass Castle shivering to pieces — then she looked up and saw the Women sweeping down on them , screaming their war cry . |
| 29 | And they put it on back to front and so she keeps on putting her watch on upside down , she goes and I was feeling dead sick and then it realised it was the stupid cow at the shop with |
| 30 | ‘ Once he 'd recharged his batteries I 'm sure he realised it was the wrong decision . |