Example sentences of "he [vb past] it [be] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Once he 'd recharged his batteries I 'm sure he realised it was the wrong decision .
2 Yet he realized it was the best he was likely to get from Nora and that , on balance , he would do well to think of it as ‘ Nora 's apology , ’ accept it as such , and hope that these aberrations in her behaviour would die away .
3 He claimed it was the fabled treaure , buried in 1945 , of the Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita .
4 He swore it was the genuine cross .
5 He never darkened its doors , but he thought it was the proper place for weddings and christenings and funerals , and he was always prepared to rig up lights for the annual parish nativity play , with a dimming spotlight to beam sentimentally on the Virgin Mary .
6 whereas Caesar did n't take the crown because he was ambitious , he knew it was the right thing to do .
7 But he insisted it was the best way to banish the bitterness of the recent past .
8 In the meantime , he eventually sold the Company as its peak in 1987 , he had made another small fortune , and with some 30 aeroplanes and 80 pilots on the books he felt it was the right time to let it go .
9 off the kitchen and ru and runs the boiler , he said it 's the best kind you can get , nothing should come in there .
10 Yeah , he said it 's the best move I ever made he said getting out of here
11 yeah , he said it 's the best move I ev he said I do n't , the lads do n't give me any trouble he says I 'm fair with them and they 're fair with me
12 It 's not that picture of what he said it 's the little bit in there
13 Three Indian mats and a beautiful deep purple , rose-orange and sepia white-fringed Turkish carpet ( he said it was the only one ‘ they ’ had , so no credit to his taste ) .
14 He said it was the only thing that would get him through it . ’
15 and he said it was the only year that he has n't .
16 One child referred to in court as child A , finally admitted taking James Bulger to a railway embankment near Walton but he said it was the other boy child B who threw bricks at him and hit him with a stick and a metal bar .
17 He said it was the best thing since Bethlehem . ’
18 He 'd got all the er information about it when he came and he said it was the best type of covering if you 've got dogs or cats .
19 He said it was the crucial first step in the process of removing the scars from the Lanarkshire landscape .
20 He said it was the first time he 'd done so but he was damned if he was going to be wheeled into a restaurant like a blasted mental patient out with his nurse . ’
21 Oh he said it was the wrong number he said erm and Mrs erm
22 He said it was the last ’ closed shop ’ in Britain and it had to go .
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