Example sentences of "and it was [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yes , mine estimated , said nine hundred and eighty's , nine , eight , six , four and we 've used seven hundred and twenty units or something like that and it was fifty five pound odd , so when I checked it 's , it 's zero , eight , nine , seven something like that |
| 2 | He was a man whose approachability made him seem so very affable , but no one , however wealthy , becomes a Presidential hopeful without some steel in the soul , and it was that sudden steel that I now saw in the senator 's eyes . |
| 3 | they would n't let her sit with them because they said oh well , she 's she 's you know , leave her with them , and it was that little lad |
| 4 | Is it , it 's like a big eye , and it was black one side and white the other side and the black side had a white pupil and the white the other side had a black one |
| 5 | And it was five hundred quid . |
| 6 | By the time they had toured the famous house with its owner , studied the illustrious visitors ' book , looked round the study with Mr Luke Fildes ' picture of the Empty Chair in their mind 's eye , and had seen the chalet where Dickens wrote his last words before his death , they were drained of emotion , and it was fortunate that Rochester Castle provided exercise without undue stress . |
| 7 | Mr Murdoch recalled : ‘ The crew were here filming for two or three months and it was great fun living in a film set . |
| 8 | However Mr Northfield added there was no scope for compromise , and it was possible tougher action would be required , although he still hopes common sense will prevail . |
| 9 | And it was two remote controls , one for the video and one for the television , |
| 10 | And it was all pure pleasure to Walter . |
| 11 | And it was all new fences and it had all been it had been . |
| 12 | Representations and ultimata from Japan and other nations were ignored , and it was this Russian occupation of Manchuria that was to serve as the immediate casus belli of Russo Japanese confrontation . |
| 13 | And it was this young girl 's attitude ! |
| 14 | what , have a because we 're going to another chap had said are you sure I 've ordered this milk and it was this young man who 's serving you see , and so , the , the more senior librarian she says she said it reminds me of interesting reading , was about erm , it was a very sort , it was , it was an but it was about architecture of , of Italy , you see , it was quite a detailed thing , you know really good detail |
| 15 | And it was this untamed quality , not his gallantry , that seemed to her characteristically Sardinian ! |
| 16 | In short , he dealt in fakes , and it was this latter quality he was most deficient in . |
| 17 | And it was this same movement that was now making it difficult for the distant beetles to get back to the professor . |
| 18 | The American boy , he saw , was puffing out his cheeks and making loud trumpeting noises in an attempt to emulate these feats , and it was this comic performance that was causing the Annamese boys to shake with laughter . |
| 19 | A delegate from Mexico argued that the United States had become the centre of gravity of imperialism , and it was this growing awareness of the importance of the United States which prompted the Comintern 's rising interest in Latin America , as the ‘ colonial , economic base of the new imperialism . |
| 20 | Some nativist elements in the host community were critical of what they saw as an assault on local culture by alien Jewish values and it was this ethnocentric attitude to change , when allied to the existence of genuine social grievances , which was to make some parts of the East End a fertile reception area for racial populist and anti-immigrant movements right through from the British Brothers League in 1900 , the BUF from 1936 to 1940 , the League of Ex-Servicemen and the Union Movement in the 1940s , to the National Front in the 1970s . |
| 21 | Not our questions about the problem of God , but God 's call and invitation to us determined the direction of his thought and shaped his writing ; and it was this basic orientation that led him on to the restatement of christological and trinitarian dogma as the foundation and horizon of theology itself . |
| 22 | Thirdly , in the study by Meshkinpour over a third of the patients were referred with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease compared with 14.2% in our study , and it was this patient population which yielded the smallest number of positive diagnoses in our experience . |
| 23 | and like , we were just flicking through Ceefax on the telly and it was like one of these luxury six berth ones and it was ninety nine quid for a week and , and |
| 24 | an excellent video and it was twenty five minutes long |
| 25 | I remember one night he come here and ooh it was a hard hard frost and he was and he slept in the barn , and he went in and he wanted a dram of water to have his drink through the night , and it was hard hard frost , and the water trough for the horses was down here , of course it when he |
| 26 | It was not until Rewald 's 1944 publication , Degas , Works in Sculpture , that a fully illustrated catalogue appeared and it was another thirty years before Charles Millard 's The Sculpture of Edgar Degas attempted to set the work in a wider context . |
| 27 | The Beazer Homes League visitors have displayed a knack this season of stealing last-gasp cup match goals , and it was another 89th minute affair which helped check Cornard for the second time in two months . |
| 28 | The journey took her over an hour , and it was another fifteen minutes before she found where Michael was being held . |
| 29 | And it was another ex-Orient player , Jason Broom , who opened the scoring for Dagenham after only three minutes . |
| 30 | Hang on and it was three hundred pound . |