Example sentences of "and [verb] it was [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |
| 2 | Last night I had no idea how to pronounce it and assumed it was pure Quechua . |
| 3 | He also followed up a rumour that another ME I 10 had crash-landed north of Glasgow the same night , although he did not get to the bottom of it , and assumed it was more evidence of the Scottish Saturday Night . |
| 4 | He went past the bo , my brother wanted dropped off , it was a one way street he went the way down came back up and parked and by the time he come up and parked it was thirty P extra ! |
| 5 | Mrs Brocklebank had created a little nest for herself in the basement where she put her clothes and her big black handbag , from which she was only rarely and reluctantly parted , and where she tucked away any odds and ends it was better Brock at home did not see . |
| 6 | McLeish asked whereabouts and discovered it was three roads away from his own flat , so they complained enjoyably to each other about the local council . |
| 7 | So she went with them and thought it was great fun . |
| 8 | He pointed at meat in a shop window and said it was good value . |
| 9 | Then Ron Dennis got up and said it was all John Barnard 's work and.McLaren 's and they were bloody geniuses and Niki … |
| 10 | Oh , I do n't think you could clearly dichotomize and say it was one thing or the other . |
| 11 | He 'd smile and say it was great being friends with you . |