Example sentences of "it was [adv] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also the same day and night and throughout the year , even though the earth was rotating on its axis and orbiting around the sun . |
| 2 | ‘ And it was just a few meals … ? ’ |
| 3 | The first time he had driven the van to Stowbridge he had smashed its top to pieces against the arch of the bridge , not realising it was just a few inches too high to go under . |
| 4 | It was just a few inches below the surface . |
| 5 | It was just a few scratches . |
| 6 | It was just a few days after eight children from the W family from South Ronaldsay had been taken into care . |
| 7 | And yet in many respects it was just the same kind of Christmas that she and her family had always known back home in Scotland . |
| 8 | Whining farting howling erm he came in at half past five and er overnight again she 's got two carloads there so it was just the same till gone eleven anyway when Mick came in I said to him what did that bloke say and he said he 's looking out some different equipment to what he |
| 9 | It was just the same thing all over again , except that this time it took twice as long because of the interpreter . |
| 10 | Eight-thirty , he 'd said , and it was already a few minutes past that ! |
| 11 | It was unmistakably the same music as before , though it was a brand new cassette . |
| 12 | It was unmistakably the same girl as in the photographs ; especially that on the cabinet of curiosa . |
| 13 | It was exactly the same act under which he had been prosecuted seven years before , with the Student Advisory Centre . |
| 14 | It was much the same story at the Foreign Office . |
| 15 | It was much the same situation as with the ship attack . |
| 16 | I believe that I will always remember it , even though it was quite a few years ago and even though it has recurred quite a few times since . |
| 17 | At least it was recognisably the same track and the same inn I came to . |
| 18 | Sandison could not be sure how much Maidstone had had to drink that day — it was still a few minutes before noon — but he knew that he was sober enough to understand fully what was going on . |
| 19 | I hope that the hon. Member for Fife , Central ( Mr. McLeish ) will understand that I do not intend to follow what he said in his long speech — it was almost the same length as his speech in our previous debate on the subject — or his wide range of criticisms of the Government 's policy . |
| 20 | With about 20,000 inhabitants , it was roughly the same size as these two English towns , and was just as provincial and bourgeois in character , but its people really knew how to live . |
| 21 | It was always the same story so I said ter meself , ‘ Billy , ’ I said , ‘ yer wastin' yer time even bovverin' ter fink about it . |
| 22 | It was always the same shape and size , built , it seemed , solely for the transportation of cheese rolls . |
| 23 | Madame was our constant ; against the fact that she never changed her style or her outfit ( it was always the same dress , every night ) you could measure the changes in all the other faces and bodies that you spent the night scrutinising — faces subtly altered by a recent bitterness or passion , a body sagging under the pressure of losing a partner or made alert by the proximity of a new or potential one . |
| 24 | I found myself hanging on to that spirit , first at the office of Policia de Investigationes del Peru ( motto : ‘ Honor y Lealtad ’ ) where it was never the same man on my case . |
| 25 | It was important to remember that it was only a few hours since Floy and Snodgrass had left Tara , the Shining Citadel , the Bright Palace , and that there was not very much that could have gone wrong for them in those few hours . |
| 26 | It was only a few lines , it was tucked away , all very low key , but the word murder was there to be seen and read . |
| 27 | It was only a few minutes ' walk to her office in Aldersgate Street ; but she normally did not arrive there till nine . |
| 28 | It was only a few minutes . |
| 29 | As soon as the casing was in position at stage 2 , it was only a few minutes work to pull the cables through the casing and fix the capping . |
| 30 | As it was only a few minutes before the shop closed , he forbore to detail the checkout girl with his usual badinage about the finer points of philosophy or astrophysics . |