Example sentences of "and it was [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Desperately she tried to unscramble the confusion in her brain , searching in vain for a way to handle the situation , and it was sheer impulse that made her say , ‘ I came here to meet you — the wild man of the wilderness . |
| 2 | or though you could just like , if you got something for say ten ninety nine and it was fifteen pounds and you got something else as well |
| 3 | really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ? |
| 4 | Even though his wife Primaflora was there and it was four weeks since he had touched her . |
| 5 | I wo , I would like to go back to the days of my youth when we at Hogmanay there was usually frost and and and ice , and er we used to celebrate it partly on skates and it was great fun when you skated perhaps a mile and a half out of the town , and er er had a lovely ice festival and then we skated back and we had |
| 6 | Charles could have chosen any excuse for the phone call and it was pure chance that he had lighted on the meaningless ‘ numberplate racket ’ I ‘ So that 's what made you drive down in the Datsun , and move the plan forward , and lose a quarter of a million pounds ? ’ |
| 7 | He had simply hesitated to take the plunge and stake on a worthwhile weekend with her , and it was pure chance that he had made up his mind just after he had learned her name . |
| 8 | None of his friends admitted knowing him and it was two weeks before his mother knew of his death . |
| 9 | In the event , Burnley won and it was all sweetness and light . ’ |
| 10 | The Prince became fascinated and vanished from sight into the mountain bikes , and it was twenty-four minutes before anyone could extract him and move him on . |
| 11 | Four years later , however , a science programme on Australian radio accused McBride of scientific fraud and it was this accusation that eventually led local health authorities in New South Wales to begin the medical tribunal proceedings . |
| 12 | First , Rousseau 's concept of the ‘ Noble Savage ’ proposed that ‘ savages ’ who lacked the civilizing influence of Western culture were free of mental disorder — and it was this idea that many psychiatrists in England , France and the US latched on to in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries . |
| 13 | It was in the woodlanded area that a minor road forked left , and it was this road that , as instructed , she steered into . |
| 14 | The generalist dominates the decision-making procedure and it was this tradition that was heavily criticised by the Fulton Report ( 1968 ) on the civil service . |
| 15 | ‘ Interest ’ , complained a reforming chaplain , was the only stimulant in the new philosophy and it was this philosophy that inspired nineteenth-century liberalism . |
| 16 | On leaving school he went as a labourer to Hunts Farm ( visible from the 6th green ) and it was this work that brought him to the course . |
| 17 | What it could not agree on was how the budget was to be balanced ; and it was this disagreement that led to the break-up of the government . |
| 18 | ‘ I decided that I had to put the headmaster in a position to answer and it was this problem that worried me most — more than the outrageous charges against myself and the effect on my family . |
| 19 | In the premier league it 's West Ham against Swindon at Upton Park … last season of course they faced each other in the first division … in London Town came out on top and it was this win that sparked their promotion run … so let's hope it 's lucky for them again |
| 20 | She rather thought that Charles knew what she knew , and it was this suspicion that prompted what was , for her , an early departure . |
| 21 | And it was this convergence that engendered a tradition among the working-class electorate of voting Labour ; Labour came to be identified with working-class interests as it had never been before . |
| 22 | And it was this beauty that constituted its truth long before experiments could be made to prove it . |
| 23 | But the conversion of DEA informants into CIA assets , and their use in operations directed against Syrian nationals or Syrian-backed groups on the supply side of the narcotics traffic , was altogether more sensitive , and it was this area that , under Donleavy 's direction , became Coleman 's special study in the late summer of 1987 . |
| 24 | A woman posing as a social worker walked off with her and it was 15 days before Alex was found safe at a house in Burford , Oxon . |
| 25 | And it was space-age technology that saved his life on his dramatic flight . |
| 26 | Sadly , over the years , it has been far too easy for men such as Beck to infiltrate the sloppy system used by many local authorities and it was high time that the Government took steps to prevent further scandals . |
| 27 | He was taking an unholy delight in her discomfiture and it was high time that he was taken down a peg . |
| 28 | The old man had spoiled her and it was high time that she faced facts . |
| 29 | Old one old ones just used which was at the bulb in every hen house and it was free range and I think there was nothing better than that . |
| 30 | On my life , I ordered one of them for my friend 's daughter for her birthday and it was ten pounds that 's two ninety nine . |