Example sentences of "and it [was/were] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greg offered to see Margaret Seymour-Strachey home , but she said she was much better now , and it was such a relief to get things off her chest like that . |
| 2 | I could not believe I was not the only one and it was such a relief . |
| 3 | On the , on the he was on the and it was such a laugh it really was , good laugh . |
| 4 | you see , and he was , he , he probably brought me into the world , you see but , er you see , and Mrs erm , you see , she was married to Doctor and he used to come up to see my father and we had a different door then door being that 's got a yale lock on now but he he 'd say , hello Frank , you know always so you got , oh he was so nice and it was such a shame that he died |
| 5 | ‘ They tried to explain that it was only sand and it was all a stunt , but it was lit up with radioactivity signs and we take our environmental responsibilities very seriously . ’ |
| 6 | His eyes kept looking away over one of my shoulders or the other , never meeting my gaze , and I got the impression that like his wife he was constantly waiting for something important to happen , expecting someone to arrive at any moment , as though they both could n't believe what had happened and it was all a dream or a ghastly joke and they were just waiting for Clare to come gangling through the front door , kicking off muddy green wellies and loudly demanding tea . |
| 7 | And it was all a surrender . |
| 8 | And it was all a mistake about his being missing because he was there now , at the perimeter fence , smiling his lovely smile , saying ‘ Hullo , Jenny . ’ |
| 9 | So until then , I just could n't see , but , of course , I did n't realize that I could n't see and it was all a blur , because I never knew what it was like to see objects in focus . |
| 10 | But maybe there never was one , and it was all a journalist 's dream . |