Example sentences of "and [adv] it was [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There was nothing so cosily malicious , once it was mutually accepted , as dead love , and besides it was plain Dotty had a thing going with Fairchild .
2 If he 'd gone to the crematorium mortuary with Alan , there would have been a blank in my mind , as I had never seen it , and anyway it was thirty miles away .
3 And thus it was that glamour had arrived for our heroine .
4 He laughed and kissed her again , and somehow it was another hour before the last of the doughnuts and her third cup of tea were consumed and he decreed that the colour had returned to her cheeks and they could leave .
5 And probably it was cold weather they would have two or three coats er you know .
6 She 's the fifties or sixties generation , and then it was all slimness , tight dresses .
7 we 'd had the collection and then it was all choruses and then it was oh where were we , he 'd , then he 'd forgotten his glasses , could n't find his glasses , what page were we
8 And the women went oh eh unlucky that was seven numbers , Shaney said to her it were n't that was six numbers , and they got and that and got the computer print out and all that , and then it was six numbers .
9 And then it was mammoth time and nothing she could do about it .
10 It is well known that Trish 's expertise is accompanied by unwavering dedication and perseverance and undoubtedly it was these qualities that upgraded the nervous novice to a Grand Prix horse within three years .
11 Such a romantic scenario , such an agonising scene to witness and yet it was compulsive viewing for Ruth .
12 More than 400 plants using the technology were licensed and again it was ICI-developed catalysts that made it all possible .
13 The semi-final on the Sunday saw me in Ben 's heat and again it was easy qualifying , with Ben first , me second , and third , to the crowd 's wild enthusiasm , Pavoni .
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