Example sentences of "it was christmas [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they tried to go out for a meal , I do n't know whether it was christmas day or boxing day down in and they could n't get n in nowhere , I said well you would n't on a boxing day ! |
| 2 | it was christmas shopping I think . |
| 3 | Then it was Christmas Eve 1914 , and from ‘ Wypers ’ to the Masurian Lakes a strange event occurred . |
| 4 | It was Christmas Eve and Agnes had wondered over the last few days if she had heard aright on the night she had gone to the closet , because the next morning her father had come blithely into the kitchen and said , ‘ Your mother is having a lie-in this morning ; take her a cup of tea along and a bit of toast . |
| 5 | It was Christmas Eve , dusk was falling fast and we were hopelessly lost in the wilderness . |
| 6 | It was Christmas Eve — our third in captivity . |
| 7 | It was Christmas Eve , and there were fourteen of us in the house . |
| 8 | It was Christmas Eve and , during the interval in Coriolanus that night , he put the bird in the oven , expecting it to take fourteen hours to cook . |
| 9 | It was Christmas Eve , therefore Santa Claus and his helpers were all very busy . |
| 10 | As it was Christmas Eve , he hung up his red stocking on his chair and left out a letter , addressed to Santa , asking him for the thing he wanted most in the world , a red nose . |
| 11 | As he said it was Christmas rush I think , you know ? |
| 12 | It was Christmas week ( whether this time of the year had any significance or not can not be explained ) and Mr Hayden was in the staff mess room writing up the log book . |
| 13 | THE shadowy men of the SAS made no secret of the fact it was Christmas party time — neighbours could hear the noise a mile away . |
| 14 | And then the church bells began to ring , and she woke up to find it was Christmas morning . |
| 15 | But it no longer did , perhaps because it was Christmas morning , and time for something miraculous to appear and change the world . |
| 16 | It was Christmas morning and she was apologetic . |
| 17 | It was Christmas time , and we used to give them oranges and sweets . |
| 18 | Would it not have been kinder had she pretended to be glad — since it was Christmas time , after all — when Odette had come rushing to show her that letter from her father ? |
| 19 | But anyway I remember one time and it er I think it was Christmas time , and there was a German they brought Germans in just same as us you know Fritz . |