Example sentences of "and [adj] was [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the whole time I was anorexic , there is only one reference in my diary to feeling cold , and that was when the school heating system failed . |
| 2 | And that was when the university was very much on the British Council circuit . |
| 3 | Some water came up and hit my bum , and that was when the phone went . |
| 4 | Only one thing she drew the line at and that was when the prostitution took up bairns . |
| 5 | Gloucester were roared out and that was where the hospitality finished . |
| 6 | AND THAT WAS JUST THE START OF A THOROUGH RENOVATION THAT 'S TAKEN 20 YEARS TO COMPLETE . |
| 7 | Er er and and and that was n't the case . |
| 8 | But joint Charlton manager Alan Curbishley said : ‘ Nobody begrudged Robert his move — and that was not the case with a couple of players when they left . ’ |
| 9 | One lick led to another , in her experience , and that was not the idea this afternoon , there were serious things in train . |
| 10 | And that was not the feeling engendered by her relations with either of the Crumwallises , for example , or with Mr McWhirter . |
| 11 | And that was not the end of it , for there were permutations . |
| 12 | Influenced by our strong local-government showing in Birmingham and the Midlands , I advised June and that was clearly the majority view . |
| 13 | Eventually he bent over and told the Head Girl to kick him ; she was amazed but she did so — just stepped forward and kicked him and that was exactly the step he wanted . |
| 14 | Drama must , perforce , have an ultimate target and destination and that was always the Clarion call to the earlier distinguished folk who trod these boards . |
| 15 | Sometimes it 's just because we want our curiosity satisfied , and that was obviously the case with Nicodemus . |
| 16 | Of course Cagney was a marvellous showman and that was precisely the point , for audiences had shown a predilection for zest and sharpness and a new kind of urban charm and Hollywood was quite prepared to exploit these qualities in its own way . |
| 17 | And that was only the beginning . |
| 18 | And this was why the company pulled out of the , it says out of the north , are they still in existence or were they in |
| 19 | But the Hall of Light faded , and the impression of great elegance and immense silence and a drifting unfamiliar scent faded , and he was falling forward and there was some kind of cell waiting for him , and this was surely the end of everything , and this was surely all he could ever expect anywhere in the entire world … |
| 20 | After one year , one would expect that out of these five those in the action sample would be happier than those in the control about the continued home care ; and this was clearly the case . |
| 21 | These were years of housing shortage and this was frequently the reason . |
| 22 | And we 've now reached a situation in which there 's something over twenty percent of our streets is multiple occupation , erm and this is noise and other activities in relation to that are the things that cause the sort of low level of concern , and this was just the peak on top of that of major aggravation . |
| 23 | And this was also the drug that caused British weightlifters Andrew Saxton and Andrew Davies to be booted out of the Barcelona Olympics . |
| 24 | It emerged that in the magistrates ' courts the distribution of sentences did not differ greatly between Blacks and Whites , and this was also the case in the Crown Court . |
| 25 | I think that 's what Priest , I mean I do n't know , Priest probably has a whole history of how he got is Esquire style , but Vincent went over there and had something to do with it , and I really think that taking the old style stuff and giving it a new spin helped , and the difference between what we 're doing and what the California crowd was doing — and this was also the time of punk rock — was that we were using traditional typefaces and they were |
| 26 | And this was n't the hotel or anything . |
| 27 | The weapon was an air-pistol with a barrel extending to 7½ inches , and this was probably the kind of ‘ toy ’ most commonly available to youths . |
| 28 | Individual rebels , talking much later to the American press , would sometimes profess to be ‘ born again ’ , and this was presumably the hint North was taking . |
| 29 | And this was not the moment to suggest that Emilia , with her refusal to let go of Cambridge , to be truly present in the parish , might herself be at fault . |
| 30 | Without an ice axe and with only borrowed instep crampons my climbing ability was somewhat limited , and this was not the place to take risks . |