Example sentences of "and it was [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pocock does , however , strive to make his building irregular , and it was primarily this feature of the Gothic that Jane Austen disliked . |
| 2 | As she would notice from the heading on the notepaper he was in the French Foreign Legion and it was fucking tough work , but there were some good mates around him . |
| 3 | She had another prescription and it was nearly three weeks and she still , now , I mean this is like Five weeks she 's still got like a residual |
| 4 | From Eastern Europe the herb spread to Scandinavia , and it was probably Scandinavian immigrants who introduced it to the USA . |
| 5 | And it was right one evening , at an art college gig where I was helping lug the gear to the van . |
| 6 | I mean I knew the first day I drove in the dark was the first night we had the car and it was most odd experience |
| 7 | He had , still , many contacts in this field and it was yet another approach to coping with the surplus capacity produced by the Carno factory . |
| 8 | Catalytic processes were not fully understood at that time and it was over forty years before Messel in England and Winkler in Germany perfected manufacturing techniques . |
| 9 | And it was just bad luck that Stephen was scheduled to be away that night . |
| 10 | you know , on our way to school and it was just grey flocks of sheep with perhaps |
| 11 | He advised the ministry of munitions on matters concerning chemical warfare , and it was chiefly these wartime contributions that led to his baronetcy in 1922 . |
| 12 | So the theorist so the theorists actually best from activities where something can actually give them a system , a model or a theory or a concept so we 've got Andy and John and it was quite interesting Andy when you were saying well whose work is this because you not really behind so you , you actually scored thirteen on that one . |
| 13 | And we had , we had been invited to take part in that and it was really good publicity and , it was n't even mentioned on on the channel that showed those th those games ! |
| 14 | Then it got quite boring , and it was really hard work , and now after the first year 's finished I 'm glad we thought of that because I 've done quite well . |
| 15 | and it was too much hassle to put her into any other job . |
| 16 | officer came into to er do a ans question answer session on the last one and it was too bigger form you know , the kids would n't speak . |
| 17 | But it was very difficult for these for young , young couples with the er er men at the front and perhaps they 'd only just got married before the war and it was very hard lines on them . |
| 18 | And it was bloody good television , was n't it ? |
| 19 | The Party never listened to him , anyway , and it was about 15 years before they made the gushing film of the Kinnocks on the clifftop — otherwise know as Jonathan Livingstone Kinnock . |
| 20 | And it was about three hours later and I said to her |
| 21 | And it was about ten inches in diameter . |
| 22 | He and Grégoire met , and it was almost instant dislike . |
| 23 | A sweet , deep pain closed about his manhood , and it was then that desire rocketed out of control , and he felt himself become as hard and as high as the beech trees that stood sentinel to Tara 's western avenue … |
| 24 | It had just crossed my mind that I had not had my boots off since the evening of the 4th June and it was now 8th June . |
| 25 | And in a worse position than because the North they 've never done any deals , never seen anybody , national accounts , done nothing in that area in terms of deals and negotiations and things like that and it was only six months ago that where could actually find out he could do deals . |
| 26 | I had had endless hospitality in Moscow , and it was only natural Surkov would want to celebrate . |
| 27 | What he would have really profited from at the beginning , he believes , was a coach and it was only some time after he joined the Vets movement that he found the next best thing , encouragement and advice from a distinguished Vet member of Cambridge Harriers , David Coward . |
| 28 | The duels between these two groups were fought with knives which they carried in small scabbards on their belts , and it was only some time later that the rival school 's knockout tactics were discovered . |
| 29 | This band had such an enormous impact on the rock world in the late '60s , and it was only some years later that I fully appreciated my own debt , realising that for a ( heavy ) rock band , Zep often had an underlying funkiness , due in large part to the style of J.P.J. which allowed for some very subtle and interesting grooves . |
| 30 | Then the bonger had struck the hour and it was only three bongs , and my feet were numb with cold , the Bibles had been kicked askew . |