Example sentences of "[vb past] it was [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But ye promised it was the last , ’ Winnie said , the drunken Rab ; and she could have pulled her hair and needed a pee but was frightened to leave Rab alone . |
| 2 | And also you 'll like it because the cardinal who designed it was a practical joker and built in all sorts of extremely infantile jokes so that he could spray water onto his innocent friends while they were eating their dinner or trying to watch little masques . |
| 3 | Clearly visible as an up-lighter caught it was the strong profile of Martin Ward , with the Dyson family a few steps behind . |
| 4 | He put up his hands and found it was a long strand of seaweed . |
| 5 | But she found it was a different school with different faces . |
| 6 | When it came to her turn to scramble ashore , she found it was no easy task to move the balance beam which swung the gates open . |
| 7 | She paced the garden ; she found it was an exact square . |
| 8 | Marx condemned capitalism because it frustrated human potential and self-actualization , but believed it was a necessary stage in human dialectical development . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought — believed it was a passing affair … ’ |
| 10 | Er certainly Forest believed it was and Ward believed it was a free kick you could tell by the expression on his face . |
| 11 | Sinead — even in that mad moment — believed it was the right thing to do . ’ |
| 12 | She said she gave it to her daughter because she believed it was the only drug which could help alleviate her condition . |
| 13 | And she believed it was the same with him . |
| 14 | She herself claimed the 8th , the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary , and in this , if in nothing else , that most powerful of Protestant reformers , John Knox , agreed with her , while one of her staunchest supporters , the Catholic John Leslie , bishop of Ross , believed it was the earlier date . |
| 15 | Do you know , when television came it was the biggest event in our lives , for women . |
| 16 | The new dealer assumed it was a genuine stock . |
| 17 | Possibly someone assumed it was a concentrated form of oxygen , and therefore invigorating . |
| 18 | ‘ I assumed it was the deliberate policy of an amateur sport towards a ‘ public service ’ . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ And you knew Feargal , knew his name , knew he came from Slane , and assumed it was the same family . ’ |
| 20 | In Canada the British not only deluded themselves that they had defeated the axiom ; they also imagined it was the federal ingredient that had enabled them to do the trick . |
| 21 | I measured it when it died and confirmed it was the correct species by carrying out various ichthyological classification data , such as scale counts and rin ray counts . |
| 22 | Soon her ordeal would be over and she vowed it was the first and last time she would act as model . |
| 23 | THE wayward Marquess of Blandford last night claimed it was a lost love which led him into drug addiction . |
| 24 | He ate pork chops in tomato sauce with us that evening , and claimed it was the first good meal he had had in six months . |
| 25 | The Board 's General Manager Tom Frawley said today that the decision to close the Shantallow home had been a difficult one , but claimed it was the only possible course of action ‘ in light of the increase over the last few years in the level of nursing home accommodation and the reduced demand for residential accommodation which has come about as a result of improvements in housing in general and the development of sheltered accommodation and other community alternatives . ’ |
| 26 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 27 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 28 | He claimed it was the fabled treaure , buried in 1945 , of the Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita . |
| 29 | And Linighan 's teammates , astonished by his courage in heading home the winner in the dying seconds of extra-time while suffering two serious injuries , reckoned it was a just reward for the defender who has battled so long to rid himself of the ‘ million pound misfit ’ tag . |
| 30 | Even some Right-wing opposition politicians reckoned it was the best Mr Mitterrand could have done in the circumstances . |