Example sentences of "and [adj] was [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er , but apparently they did a , they did a test and that was also a package where the stuff like that , transfer although those three may of been carrying weapons , they split open the policeman , but this does seem to basically at , well not no , not indiscriminately they did n't say that but they shot innocent people , I mean like I said well the I mean that 's got to kill in those streets and stuff the ricochet 's can go quite easily go through somebody but there , there was , there 's always been claims er , there 's no I R A gunmen there |
| 2 | and that was just a bowl of soup and a , a roll |
| 3 | Getting it out and that was just an armchair do n't know what they 'd do if they had to move the settee , but erm , that 's the difference in |
| 4 | Erm and that was just an excu h him being expelled for driving someone into town was simply an excuse because he 'd been caught so many other times . |
| 5 | Whatever the cause , so far in 1991 record sales in the U.S.A. are down by 20% on last year 's figures — and that was n't a great year either . |
| 6 | And that was n't a bad shot . |
| 7 | As Niki said at the time , his Number One position ( an unofficial title , though Prost had made it clear to me , as to others , that he considered his first season at McLaren to be very much a learning process ) was under threat , and that was not a situation Niki appreciated . |
| 8 | The Deputy Under Secretary headed the Secret Intelligence Service of the United Kingdom , and that was not a subject matter for gossip and conversation on a bougainvillaea-fringed veranda as the lights of the fishermen 's dug-outs floated inside the coral reef … |
| 9 | ‘ And that was not a hint for you to offer me a bed for the night , Miss Rose Fenemore . |
| 10 | Even so , I noticed Rosie was doing it , and that was quite a sight too ! |
| 11 | Mouthed all the swear words I could think of — and that was quite a lot . |
| 12 | I thought , ‘ This name looks good in print , ’ and that was quite a relief because Aspel is not a good name to pronounce — people always want to say Aspirin or Cesspool … . |
| 13 | And that was quite a good idea , because late at night following wedding parties and other , if anybody was behaving in an disorderly manner and people were returning home , they would always tell the policeman that they saw that a rowdy crowd were coming along . |
| 14 | And that was quite a lot of money |
| 15 | And that was quite an experience . |
| 16 | That 's the only time you met your Chiefs and that was always a snarling matter . |
| 17 | I already knew it was n't a good idea ; I could hear the tone of my voice rising higher and higher as I spoke the sentence , and that was always a sign I was getting into some sort of verbal mess . |
| 18 | and that was really a generic way , but then we refer to the point of claims of course based upon the bi-laws |
| 19 | There was one thing that might save the mare , and that was only a 10,000 to I chance . |
| 20 | They had heard that they sold them in Clery 's , and that was only a few minutes from where the bus stopped when it went to Dublin . |
| 21 | And that was only a fraction of the tricks he said he could do in his Heyday . |
| 22 | His was like sort of a bank credit card but bank said he put the cheque card in and that was only a fifty quid thing anyway . |
| 23 | On the other hand , her grey eyes were big , and that was usually a sign of hunger . |
| 24 | Erm now that the inner relief road options would have required some relocation of the of the golf course , would certainly have disrupted erm the golf course and that was undoubtedly a a consideration . |
| 25 | And that was certainly a start . |
| 26 | Stacker proved to be the hit of 1992 and this was clearly a ‘ must-have ’ utility . |
| 27 | er and I 'll be the first to recognize that and this was just a sort of the ball park stats that you were looking for . |
| 28 | And this was just a beaten track ? |
| 29 | Mhm and this was just an innocent party |
| 30 | And this was n't an Anglican church , erm it was a Baptist church , and when I was seven I understood that Jesus had died for me and then I asked him into my heart and when I was twelve I was baptized , which is the equivalent really of being confirmed . |