Example sentences of "and it [verb] be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partridge had got all angry and upset soon too because as he was struggling with Steven a magazine fell out of his trousers on to the towpath of the canal and the other men had picked it up and it had been a spanking magazine so all the other men who were n't laughing and shouting already started teasing partridge ; Partridge started trying to wrestle Steven to the ground but Steven had got free and clouted the other man with the shovel , which was still bloody from hacking the cat to bits , and after that , with the magazine coming apart as the other men grabbed at it and Partridge rolling about dazed on the towpath in the cat 's blood and almost falling into the canal , Dan Ashton had said soberly that enough was enough and they 'd better go and see Mr Smith the supervisor because they just could n't go on like this . |
| 2 | Judy , who has been at the pub for just over a year , spent thousands of pounds refurbishing the Grey Horse and it had been a long-time ambition to run a pub of her own . |
| 3 | His parents had died as prisoners of the Japanese in Singapore , and it had been a further great grief to Alicia Lockwood when her beloved nephew had been killed in the desert in 1942 a few weeks after Sara was born . |
| 4 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 5 | But I needed to tell someone , after all these years , and it had be a stranger of course . |
| 6 | ‘ She was a very lovely girl and it 's been a great shock to us all , ’ agreed Melissa . |
| 7 | They seem to want to get a snap of me rather than you at the moment , ’ and she said , ‘ Oh , I 've had my innings and it 's been a good innings . ’ |
| 8 | Alwen might have known , for when the club decided to build the original Valley in 1919 they began with 2s 3d in the kitty and it 's been a financial slog ever since . |
| 9 | I 've broadened my football knowledge and it 's been a vital part of my education in the game . |
| 10 | The heartache and suffering over the centuries has made them tough and strong and it 's been a slow evolution . |
| 11 | Hunter had his spleen removed after the Students World Cup last summer , and it 's been a slow process working back to full fitness . |
| 12 | ‘ Although I 'm champion and it 's been a wonderful year I feel I ca n't truly call myself the title holder until I beat Joey on the roads . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We started because we had so many enquiries about holiday courses , and it has been a tremendous success , ’ says Angela Payne , deputy director of the college . |
| 14 | The Elizabethans certainly did like it , and it has been a popular favourite ever since . |
| 15 | They are very good acts and it has been a tough battle to get through . ’ |