Example sentences of "[vb past] it was [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know , when television came it was the biggest event in our lives , for women . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Even some Right-wing opposition politicians reckoned it was the best Mr Mitterrand could have done in the circumstances . |
| 5 | I figured it was the best way to keep the interaction between the guitar and the lyrics , which is the whole point for me . |
| 6 | Well I suppose th they felt it was the cheapest way of , of , of having them . |
| 7 | ‘ I went away and left him ’ , now even if they went , went away and left and , because they had to bring the children home , or if they went away and left him because they knew it was the best thing for everyone concerned , because the foreign office wants as many people , we all need as many people to get out of the area as possible ; their guilt will be huge . |
| 8 | Carrie thought it was the saddest sound site had ever heard . |
| 9 | I thought it was the greatest adventure of our age . |
| 10 | They all loved it , thought it was the greatest thing they 'd ever drunk . ’ |
| 11 | Children would normally go to London when they ran away from home , because they thought it was the best place to go to get a job , and where they could sleep easily . |
| 12 | And as they run in er and I always thought it was the best of the show . |
| 13 | Thought it was the funniest thing since the invention of piles . ’ |
| 14 | I told Diana [ Vreeland ] and she thought it was the chicest thing she ever heard . |
| 15 | ‘ When we did a signing session at the Rough Trade shop , we thought it was the biggest ball hop ever ! ’ cackles Niall . |
| 16 | Dot thought it was the loveliest book she 'd ever seen . |
| 17 | Wilkinson thought it was the worst header of his career ! |
| 18 | When I left there I thought it was the happiest day of my life , but it was n't . |
| 19 | But he insisted it was the best way to banish the bitterness of the recent past . |
| 20 | She regarded him suspiciously , and realised it was the best he was going to do for her . |
| 21 | Although no one yesterday was able to confirm this as a record defeat , club officials admitted it was the biggest thrashing in their memories . |
| 22 | Yet he realized it was the best he was likely to get from Nora and that , on balance , he would do well to think of it as ‘ Nora 's apology , ’ accept it as such , and hope that these aberrations in her behaviour would die away . |
| 23 | When we won it was the biggest race . |
| 24 | The storm broke as I drove past Woomera on the way back to Port Augusta and locals there said it was the heaviest rain for nearly 200 years . |
| 25 | Duncan said it was the best that he had ever seen . |
| 26 | Both Bryan Robson and Alex Ferguson said it was the best they had ever seen a Wimbledon side play — it makes a change to get credit when it 's due . ’ |
| 27 | William said it was the best political occasion he could remember since he had heard Aneurin Bevan speak in South Wales during the war . |
| 28 | He said it was the best thing since Bethlehem . ’ |
| 29 | She said it was the best one she 'd ever done . |
| 30 | Richard Zanuck , vice-president of Twentieth Century-Fox , said it was the best he had seen . ’ |