Example sentences of "it was a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a white-faced young girl of fourteen or so , in a long dark-brown dress . |
| 2 | It was a dark swarthy face , almost Asian in colour , and very handsome . |
| 3 | It was a dark cloudy day ; there had been as yet no spring , and the grass was muddy from constant rain . |
| 4 | It was a dark overcast day ; the people milling around all looked grey . |
| 5 | It was a traditional good-luck wish , for long life and prosperity . |
| 6 | It was a mere husky whisper . |
| 7 | It was a Dutch medical man who is credited with having discovered the first recipe for gin back in the 1600s . |
| 8 | I thought it was a damn silly place to park if someone wanted to take a leak in the bushes . |
| 9 | With the independent network still smarting over BSkyB 's controversial £304 million capture of coverage of the new Premier League it was a second severe setback in just over a week . |
| 10 | Fellers come running , bobbies come running and it was a right old dust-up . |
| 11 | It was a long dull wait . |
| 12 | He arrived in an old banger , it was a big farm you know , 500 acre farm , arable and sheep mostly , and it was a long long way right up to this farm , half way up the hill he was going , ’ Gee up then , gee up then . ’ |
| 13 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're sweet , ’ said Lucy , stroking her face , holding her hand , ‘ but it was a long long time ago . |
| 15 | It was a long sharp fragment of a willow-pattern saucer , three little blue figures crossing the hump-backed bridge . |
| 16 | It was a long hot skin up to our campsite at Dhundi , just below the treeline in the Solang . |
| 17 | It was a long straight drive from the main gates up to the entrance of the compound , and the stones which marked the main track had all been specially whitened . |
| 18 | It was a long windowless studio with neon strip-lighting set into the ceiling . |
| 19 | It was a long white Lincoln with black-tinted windows . |
| 20 | And erm this was the first time that I 'd ever been sort of as far afield into the country as this , and to go and see the erm er Toll Bridge at , that was , and top go over it , because it was a long wooden bridge that used to go over , and er we thought that was absolutely fantastic . |
| 21 | It was a long hard fight , but by now it was dark and this helped us very much . |
| 22 | It was a shabby army-surplus shoulder-bag which someone had painstakingly embroidered with purple stars . |
| 23 | Although we trained seriously , it was a semi recreational pastime . |
| 24 | It was a glorious sunny morning with very little wind . |
| 25 | The original building of the Hotel Lapershoek dates back to the early 20th century when it was a grand stately home , and it has since been thoughtfully converted in to a very comfortable four star hotel . |
| 26 | The inflated snobbery of purchasing a ritual traditionally reserved for those of a higher social rank did not appear until the very end of the eighteenth century ; conversely , it was a dissatisfied middle class which , towards the close of the nineteenth century , ushered in a less complicated and confusing street procession . |
| 27 | Well thank you Peter , yes I 've got the man of the moment with me — Andy Melville , absolutely delighted erm oh , it was a frustrating old time was n't it , what an important goal . |
| 28 | The village of Dornhausen lay about eight kilometres out of Bad Schwarzendorn itself , and the final road to it was a narrow concrete track that even in June was still covered in flaking mud and cow dung . |
| 29 | It was a narrow wooden cupboard with a shelf at the top and a rail below . |
| 30 | It was a lazy insolent answer . |