Example sentences of "[vb past] it was [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 2 | He was tall and pale and when Nicholson shook his hand he found it was icy cold . |
| 3 | Her lawyers believed it was highest settlement made in an English divorce court . |
| 4 | Mr Onanuga , 31 , has told friends he naively went along with the story because Mr Newton believed it was good publicity for Thresher and his own branch , and he did not see how it could harm anyone . |
| 5 | If she stood firm , there was nothing he could do , she told herself — though whether she believed it was another matter . |
| 6 | Last night I had no idea how to pronounce it and assumed it was pure Quechua . |
| 7 | He also followed up a rumour that another ME I 10 had crash-landed north of Glasgow the same night , although he did not get to the bottom of it , and assumed it was more evidence of the Scottish Saturday Night . |
| 8 | All was well at first , but when she calved it was another story . |
| 9 | At the end of my talk the chairman of the session , John G. Taylor from Kings College , London , claimed it was all nonsense . |
| 10 | Fringe , flat out at racing pace , had a wildness about him I could n't really control and I guessed it was that quality which won him races . |
| 11 | On hearing ‘ Go to it Rose Section — go to it ’ I decided it was Rose Section although the section was too far off to be identified definitely . |
| 12 | Turning to face Luce , his hands thrust into the pockets of his beige trousers , he went on , ‘ Last year I decided it was high time I had a wife and family . |
| 13 | I just I just saw it was pure virgin olive oil and I thought oh that 'll do |
| 14 | The students felt it was another infringement of their already limited freedom and disliked the highhanded manner in which it was carried out . |
| 15 | He felt it was this type of blanket discrimination against West Belfast which the legislation fails to address and any serious attempt to end discrimination must contain positive discrimination and quotas . |
| 16 | The triumph came as a surprise to many fans … but Ron Pickering knew it was another step to even greater glory . |
| 17 | I knew it was military equipment for Central America , pass it on . |
| 18 | I knew it was bad news . |
| 19 | Partly he knew it was last night 's sedative , coupled with a large slug of Miles ' Chivas Regal . |
| 20 | No , I , I knew it was some time but I just I remembered Louise 's birthday because Louise 's birthday was the Friday the thirteenth |
| 21 | Mrs Kipling said when she put her children Gwynne , three , Sarah-Jayne , two , and nine-month-old Aaron to bed , Gwynne said he could smell something but she thought it was burning toast . |
| 22 | I said I thought it was that way but , you know , agreed with them . |
| 23 | I thought it was that wife . |
| 24 | At first Grainne thought it was that power was stealing over them , and then she thought that it was not power but strength , only that did not seem quite right either . |
| 25 | I thought it was marvellous opportunity to do it that way , each subject held in a bay and in strictly chronological order . |
| 26 | She thought it was good pay , but well earned . |
| 27 | But shoppers differed on whether they thought it was good news . |
| 28 | ‘ I suppose he thought it was boring stuff about equal pay and women ’ , she says , ‘ I went berserk . |
| 29 | So she went with them and thought it was great fun . |
| 30 | You all thought it was great fun — going off for a hot weather holiday ! |