Example sentences of "he [verb] it was [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he opened the bag completely he realised it was a human being . |
| 2 | ‘ Once he 'd recharged his batteries I 'm sure he realised it was the wrong decision . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ He thinks it was a few minutes after six . ’ |
| 5 | He says it was a nasty attack and the attackers were violent . |
| 6 | He says it was a terrible attack and it 's important that they catch the culprit . |
| 7 | He says it was the worst day . |
| 8 | He says it was an awesome sight seeing the water come in the door . |
| 9 | He claimed it was the fabled treaure , buried in 1945 , of the Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita . |
| 10 | ‘ He swore it was the genuine cross . |
| 11 | He thought it was a great joke . ’ |
| 12 | Coun. Dave Walsh said he thought it was a visible demonstration of the slump in the property market . |
| 13 | The usual family gathering at the Andersons ' was held over until late January as Theresa had invited her parents and brothers and sister to her house for Boxing Day , and Pat said he thought it was a good idea . |
| 14 | She offered to do it for Simon and he thought it was a good idea but er he never quite got around to doing it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | With regard to the foundation on which his advocacy of the primacy was based , it can be summed up by saying that he thought it was an integral part of the rights of the church committed to his care , testified to by the living members of the community and the tradition which they inherited . |
| 17 | But he said he thought it was an Irish fellow you know and I said well where does he live ? |
| 18 | Born black in the Aliso Project , in the days before it became Mexican , he became a cop 20 years ago because he thought it was an honourable job . |
| 19 | He was standing miles away and he thought it was an aggressive posture . |
| 20 | He says that he feels it was a fair hearing . |
| 21 | Looking up he saw it was a different man from the one who had chosen not to see . |
| 22 | Shrew Shrewsbury try to play the ball forward , runs after it but he knew it was a lost cause and the ball is through to Bobby . |
| 23 | No-one was ever able to locate the elusive and possibly mythical teenager who supposedly became pregnant in Mr Moore 's constituency merely to jump the housing queue , but still he knew it was a serious issue . |
| 24 | He knew it was a hopeless task — like assembling a jig-saw puzzle without the picture to serve as a guide — but still he could not abandon it . |
| 25 | Tony Jacklin tried to persuade him to reconsider because he knew it was a bad decision . |
| 26 | He did it , though he knew it was a needless precaution . |
| 27 | whereas Caesar did n't take the crown because he was ambitious , he knew it was the right thing to do . |
| 28 | But he insisted it was the best way to banish the bitterness of the recent past . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | After drinking with a friend , Mr. Clarkson , in 1803 , he declares it was the best time he had had since he came into Westmorland . |