Example sentences of "he [vb past] it was 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 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | He said it was the only thing that would get him through it . ’ |
| 11 | and he said it was the only year that he has n't . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He said it was the best thing since Bethlehem . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He said it was the crucial first step in the process of removing the scars from the Lanarkshire landscape . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Oh he said it was the wrong number he said erm and Mrs erm |
| 18 | He said it was the last ’ closed shop ’ in Britain and it had to go . |