Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] [adv] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was 4 o'clock in the morning when Agnes got up . |
| 2 | It was five o'clock in the morning . |
| 3 | There was a bed in one corner still unmade , although it was five o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 4 | Mark says it was nine o'clock in the morning when the crucifixion took place . |
| 5 | It was two o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 6 | It was two o'clock in the morning before she was conscious again , and able to call the police . |
| 7 | It was two o'clock in the morning . ’ |
| 8 | It was one o'clock in the morning . |
| 9 | It was one o'clock in the morning on a windless November night of 1837 . |
| 10 | It was six o'clock in the evening , four hours since the Deputy Public Prosecutor had summoned Zen to his office in the law courts . |
| 11 | It was six o'clock in the morning and already the temperature was rising . |
| 12 | It was four o'clock in the morning . |
| 13 | It was four o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 14 | When it was simmering slowly in the Aga she went into Penry , who was searching distractedly through piles of medical tomes . |
| 15 | As will be shown below , there is some reason , though not perhaps positive evidence , for supposing that his appointment to the Muftilik occurred relatively late in his life ; and there seems also to be good reason to suppose that his appointment to the muderrislik of the Manastir medrese occurred before his appointment to the kadilik since it was usual even in the early days of the Ottoman state for a man to have done some teaching before being appointed to as important a kadilik as that of the capital city . |
| 16 | The significant change I think is in the balance of debt between fixed and variable rate , where we took a conscious decision and been working it through to take more advantage of the prospective and er decline , it was prospective earlier in the year er in selling interest rates and the continued low er short-term rates in the United States . |
| 17 | That 's why I presume it was eight o'clock in the morning you see . |
| 18 | It was ten o'clock in the morning and the streets were almost deserted . |
| 19 | It was cold here in the doorway ; cold in the century too . |
| 20 | Now , however , it was three o'clock in the morning and all the servants were asleep . |
| 21 | That was all that mattered … and it was three o'clock in the morning . |
| 22 | In this sense , it was interested both in the narrowing of the range of views presented in newspapers and the likelihood that newspapers could be used for political ends . |
| 23 | It was true too in the country . |
| 24 | It was 3 o'clock in the afternoon when Malc pulled open the fire doors , left ajar on Sundays , at the back of the Aquarius Club in Chesterfield . |
| 25 | However , the role played by literature in tailoring this common resource meant that it was common only in a highly idiosyncratic sense . |
| 26 | It was seven o'clock in the evening and Lowell was mashing up cat biscuits in hot water for Middy . |