Example sentences of "to it [was/were] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The bed was at the far end and next to it was a small cabinet on which stood a lamp and a telephone … the telephone through which the dying , terrified Angy had tried to summon help .
2 Next to it was a modern block which the men headed for .
3 In the Queen 's carriage a day compartment adjoining the balcony contained couch , armchairs , table and writing desks ; next to it was a smaller compartment with a bedstead for Princess Mary .
4 Later , when I got to Bristol I was prescribed the vitamins and mineral supplements such a diet needed , but to even start to get used to it was a formidable struggle .
5 Next to it was a red Porsche 944 with a bumper sticker which read ‘ My other car 's a Porsche as well . ’
6 Next to it was the faded print of a wizened old lady almost totally obscured by a black chador — his mother standing proudly in her rose garden in Yazd .
7 Loosely linked to it were the emerging environmentalist movements ( the link being forged by a deep suspicion of advanced technology which had raised the spectre of nuclear holocaust and then manifested itself in the devastation inflicted on Vietnam ) .
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