Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [was/were] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I , I remember once going into er a British restaurant because it was my birthday and there was trifle on the menu and trifle was some sort of weird jelly thing that was thi instead of sponge it was stale bread and I think it was sort of stewed apple and mock cream but the fact that it it was my birthday and it was trifle you know I just sort of sat there like a queen but I think I 'm sure that it tasted quite revolting . |
| 2 | when you went shopping you could shop everywhere and a quarter of tea it was that price every shop , there was no competitiveness about it |
| 3 | Like most engineering projects , it may have looked good on paper , but in practice it was another thing entirely . |
| 4 | By the time they entered the harbour it was high tide and the launch , with the Wheel riding her stern , lay almost level with the quay . |
| 5 | Last night had been wonderful ; but then , every time her body played host to his thick prick it was sheer heaven . |
| 6 | ‘ Immediately after the marathon it was local election time and I was on the move constantly . |
| 7 | Were you thinking that broadcasting it was another piece of the pattern ? ’ |
| 8 | In times of war it was standard practice for pilots to gain experience on a medium powered aircraft , such as the Harvard , before climbing into anything as powerful as the Corsair . |
| 9 | Hotspur wheeled to keep touch with him , pleased by the ready retort , but his impetus had swept them apart , and from that moment it was hand-to-hand work with whoever was cast up at him , horsed or afoot , until he could find room enough to choose his man and use a lance again . |
| 10 | With a catamaran it was instant acceleration that dampened the force of the wind . |
| 11 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 12 | When they came to the apartment , Mary-Claude was cooking up a storm in the kitchen , Sarah was squalling in her crib in the front bedroom and in the back it was wall-to-wall Star Wars , with all the electronic gear we had in there . |
| 13 | Although communists were a nuisance it was fascist anti-semitism which caused the real headache ; if this were outlawed then the problem would be removed . |
| 14 | When Harriet once again saw her daughter off at Penzance station it was this time with a sense of relief . |
| 15 | But for the federalist movement it was small compensation for the loss of EDC and the EPC . |
| 16 | No , I thought if it was a man it was a president and it was a woman it was Prime Minister . |
| 17 | Perdita felt too tired to eat , but when she tried her steak it was pure poetry , tender as velvet , juicy as an orange , and so exploding with flavour that she was soon piling her plate with potato purée , tomato salad and geranium-red barbecue sauce . |
| 18 | On the grandiose plane of a general strike or revolution against a Labour government it was sheer nonsense , though much more dangerous in Germany , the country for which the new strategy had apparently been devised . |
| 19 | ‘ Bliss it was that dawn to be alive ’ a quote from Wordsworth , but it is how I feel as we embark on this new decade . |
| 20 | On the second floor it was all the scones and tea bread and currant bread and on the top floor it was all confectionery work and sponge making and what have you and pies . |
| 21 | The contract is back again , I done all this erm water pipe it were all gravel in there sunk into the ground you know big hole in the ground ! |
| 22 | When it became clear by the end of the month that the EEC would not be able to concur on the financial arrangements for the common agricultural policy , the French Foreign Minister , Maurice Couve de Murville , whose turn it was that month to chair the Council of Ministers , abruptly terminated the session despite the objections of the other ministers . |
| 23 | to Jim , whose turn it was this morning : |
| 24 | With its wide moat and narrow approaches , it was indeed a castle , but in spirit it was some distance from Amberley and Bodiam . |
| 25 | With her fingers busy and her mind occupied with the story it was late afternoon before the end of a tape brought Leonora back to earth with a start . |
| 26 | In any case it was dark well before ten . ’ |
| 27 | With his hand cool and firm on the back of her neck holding her head in place , she could hardly refuse , and in any case it was sensible advice . |
| 28 | For an artisan elite it was skilled labour power sold at a premium , but for most men and almost all working women it was unskilled labour . |
| 29 | But of course it was real silk , so tiresomely good , like all Ianthe 's things . |
| 30 | Well the standpipe used to freeze up and er when that occurred the grown men in the house used to light a fire round the standpipes , of course it was cast iron it was n't copper or anything like that , and light a fire to thaw it out , I do n't remember ever being without water but we used , it was a bit primitive but burn newspaper and stuff round the standpipe and er the old as I say we used to , the water for the washing we used to pump into the sink and er fill the old dolly tub with water for the washing and use the rainwater for washing . |