Example sentences of "[adv] it was [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hurt so much it was physical pain , like a knife twisting backwards and forwards . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was pure mischief in me . |
| 3 | Perhaps he was afraid of the responsibility , or perhaps it was pure selfishness . |
| 4 | Yet before them … perhaps it was pure cowardice , it is not for me to say . |
| 5 | Or perhaps it was that recollection , however poignant , was better than emptiness . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was that paradox — more than any other aspect of its nature — which would finally undo it . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps it was that bump we went over , ’ said Bob hesitantly . |
| 8 | Who was attacking it ? perhaps it was that letter from that bastard up in town . |
| 9 | Perhaps it was just procrastination . |
| 10 | Perhaps it was just embarrassment — the memory of how he had shamed himself that time when she had comforted him . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps it was this bloke Kennedy she was supposed to be meeting . |
| 12 | Perhaps it was this climate of hysteria and sanctified greed that broke the moral fibre of a mild-mannered English instructor at Columbia University called Charles Van Doren . |
| 13 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was this atmosphere , coupled with Max Jacob 's fierce Catholicism , that led Modigliani to seek out his roots . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was these journeys that made him realise to the full how many of the world 's species were on the brink of extinction . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was more evidence of a Celtic past . |
| 17 | So it was that night at Hampton Court . |
| 18 | So it was all nonsense , was it ? |
| 19 | Yes , well cos you see , I mean , you see you begin life as erm your , your shop was the corner shop erm you know the shop was the Co-op and of course erm we always went each week , my brother and I , er to the Co-op for the groceries you see , so it was all Co-op . |
| 20 | so it was better conditions in there . |
| 21 | So it was one day you made the decision and you stuck with it ? |
| 22 | I graduated in fifty-seven so it was one year 's in fifty-eight . |
| 23 | So it was many weeks before Ellie dared try the key in the lock . |
| 24 | So it was many years later , in 1930 , that a writer of light-hearted detective stories called Anthony Berkeley proclaimed that the art should change from puzzles about time , place and opportunity into puzzles about motive and character , and produced a book , The Second Shot , written from the murderer 's point of view . |
| 25 | So it was ten amps with just the one , just the fifty ohm and now it , I mean this is n't right but just a , let's say that with both we 're going to get about eleven amps . |
| 26 | Even so it was common practice ( and indeed still is ) to crimp with one 's teeth ! |
| 27 | So it was last Tuesday night , when the change allowed at the end of our whacky version of five-card rolling draw brought your correspondent the most beautiful five of spades he had ever seen — face down what 's more — to go with the A-2-3-4 he was showing . |
| 28 | So it was open day for Macgregor-hunting and they were pursued like animals . |
| 29 | So it was little surprise to me when one evening after a skirmish Mum had blown up at Dad with more than her normal vehemence . |
| 30 | And was the most modern station so it was obvious Street was on the way out . |