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

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1 The ghost of Linfield past has been laid to rest and it was former team manager Eric Bowyer who began the exorcism — in somewhat bizarre circumstances .
2 And it was fifty P .
3 That what it means , and it was fifty days se se se seven weeks , after the death and resurrection of Jesus and the disciples had been told to wait in an upper room until the Holy Spirit would descend upon them , and you 've had that record read to you from acts chapter two of just what took place on that day , that birth day of the church of Jesus Christ .
4 Desperately she tried to unscramble the confusion in her brain , searching in vain for a way to handle the situation , and it was sheer impulse that made her say , ‘ I came here to meet you — the wild man of the wilderness .
5 We had very little water , and it was dangerous country here , with many wild animals .
6 They had their they measured it and it was eight foot high and he jumps up , spins around and crash
7 And it was eight pound for the whole pack and all the spacers .
8 Did you see erm , they see in this paper the light did it were in Kingfisher book and it was seventeen pound for a roll
9 or though you could just like , if you got something for say ten ninety nine and it was fifteen pounds and you got something else as well
10 We stopped briefly at Recife ( which is quite near the equator ) and Rio de Janeiro before coming to Sao Paulo airport , but it was night time at Recife , and it was early morning with an overcast sky at Rio , so I saw little .
11 Well , as you know , when I was a novice I used to do quite a lot of teaching , because the nuns were short-handed , and it was useful practice .
12 and it was dark green oh it it 's not bad but you know I 'd just lost ten pounds to the taxi driver to him giving me the wrong change so I was feeling in a very frugal mood an and this the green of this candlestick holder you know what I call the old fashioned dark green , of some china ?
13 It stank and it was dark orange .
14 ( And it was that lack of hits which probably helped bring about the suicides . )
15 But it was the patronage of Sir John Coke [ q.v. ] , one of the principal secretaries of state from 1625 to 1639 , which lay behind his rise to complete control of foreign and domestic posts in the 1630s ; and it was that achievement which gave him the opportunity both to create a new postal service and to acquire an estate in Essex worth £800 a year .
16 Sharpe had taken a royal fortune off the battlefield , and it was that fortune which Jane had stolen from him , and much of which she had already spent on a London house and on silks and on furniture and on jewels and on Lord John 's debts , and on silverware and gold plate and Chinese wallpaper and on lapdogs and satin and on the cabriolet in which Lord John now rode towards the cavalry and battle .
17 And it was that kind of debate that that went on the last few years .
18 He was his own father down there and it was that night again when Francis said to me , ‘ Do n't go , ’ and this time I had n't .
19 I do n't know of any boxing match that 's ever captured the interest of people and it was that night , course we never heard the result , not until we got to Egypt , you there was no wireless you see , you did n't know what was happening at all .
20 And it was that distress , outwardly forgotten , which had been the root cause of her lifelong claustrophobia .
21 Everton 's crisp passing bewildered Tottenham , and it was that fellow Beardsley running the show .
22 And it was that habit of speaking his mind that led to his downfall .
23 Mother was a Tallentire and it was that side of the family which had the interest in music and … well , talent , I suppose , like the first part of their name .
24 ‘ Anything she had , I had too , and it was thirteen years younger , and readily available to my husband as , when , and how he liked to use it .
25 And er we went to get one , and measured it and it was right size this box but
26 But when I rung to take it , for them to take it back they had a special offer on and it was twelve weeks for forty pu , pa , you know , were doing it cheap
27 And a house further along in Abbey View there cos i and it was four houses actually in the
28 And it was four pounds .
29 really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ?
30 Even though his wife Primaflora was there and it was four weeks since he had touched her .
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