Example sentences of "[vb base] it was the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we do is take the , the day of the week and the , the calendar date , it might be the say it was the fourth day of the week Thursday |
| 2 | Oh no look it was the invisible man driving the car . |
| 3 | I caused a lot of hurt to my husband and family when I left them to live with her , but my partner , Kate , felt as strongly about me as I did about her and I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 4 | I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 5 | I know it was the last straw of many . |
| 6 | but in those days it was n nobody thought i you know it was the done thing . |
| 7 | I suppose it was the poor tax payer ? |
| 8 | Police believe it was the same man . |
| 9 | And they reckon it was the best class of of er Douglas fir they ever had . |
| 10 | My brother reckons it was Beeney 's fault for not coming off his line but I reckon it was the two centre halfs again . |
| 11 | I reckon it was the hardest job next to coal-mining . |
| 12 | I guess it was the first time really in my life I 'd been totally left on my own . |
| 13 | He would n't say what was n't working out , though I guess it was the sexual frustration and not being able to put a date on setting up home together . |
| 14 | I think it was the other way round , He was telling me to get back to p H and stop writing fiction . |
| 15 | I think it was the first time you really spoke to me . |
| 16 | I think it was the following morning after the doctor talked to him . |
| 17 | I think it was the same drive that led me to invent a series of very complicated games with another school friend , Roger Ferneyhough . |
| 18 | About this time last year I think it was the same week he came there were five judges that he picked every year for fifteen years . |
| 19 | Then he came back the next day — I think it was the next day — and told us who 'd died . |
| 20 | And er in the back I think it was the back bedroom there was a , a light switch and the wiring was sort of hanging from , from the switch . |
| 21 | I think it was the weirdest place I have ever seen . |
| 22 | You could live your whole life in some tiny place and think it was the whole world . |
| 23 | it was a cro , I tell you what , we were playing something tonight , I think it was the last thing before you stopped , and I kept thinking any minute now it 's gon na be Somewhere Over the Rainbow |
| 24 | In fact it 's very much like the higher order networks that I talked about in the last lecture er I think it was the last lecture but one , and the networks which pre-process the data before they 're presented to the network by some higher function . |
| 25 | oh well , we ca n't very well be whether Julie said she liked boys to go out with her , go , and we provisionally booked , I think it was the last week in February , we got quite a bit on , I said er if I ca n't make it I 'll ring you , but then , oh that was it she rung me up , and she said Lynnie |
| 26 | I think it was the wonderful sense of rhythm of the mothers of Sidcup and the intense pleasure which radiated from their eyes during the classes which finally captivated me ’ ; subsequent generations of Medau teachers have shared these feelings about their own classes . |
| 27 | Her evidence was read out by Coroner Roy Barter , who said : ‘ I think it was the broken romance that was the cause of his death . |
| 28 | I think it was the sudden transition from light to dark . ’ |
| 29 | I have never said that Just Do It was the hardest route in the world — it 's one of the most difficult , and certainly the hardest of its type — that 's all . |
| 30 | So we came to the halt , everything worked perfectly and I was astonished how easy this all was , I rather fancy it was the one blade digging gently in and scribing a beautiful arc to port , all the time into wind ; it was the gentlest of one-wheel landings that could ever have been attained . |