Example sentences of "and [vb past] it [be] the " in BNC.
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1 | He smelt the scent of the roses , and realised it was the first time he had walked here , the first time he had looked at them , in four years . |
2 | She regarded him suspiciously , and realised it was the best he was going to do for her . |
3 | ‘ And you knew Feargal , knew his name , knew he came from Slane , and assumed it was the same family . ’ |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | ‘ I 'm so sorry — I saw the fire , and thought it was the dining-room . |
7 | I 'd already been to the forest couple of times as a student and thought it was the most wonderful place . |
8 | Then she apologised for her mask , which was indeed extraordinary , and said it was the custom of her people . |
9 | ‘ Friends , many of them believers , came up afterwards and said it was the most beautiful funeral they had ever been to . |
10 | One leading UFF figure in the area last week referred to a gun attack on a house in Jamaica Street in the Ardoyne area on St. Patrick 's night and said it was the intention to kill anyone in the house . |
11 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
12 | He offered a hand of reconciliation to whites and said it was the ANC 's job , as the country 's biggest political force , to address national unity and nation building . |
13 | The Federation of Small Businesses reacted positively to the Budget and said it was the result of the Chancellor 's meeting its representatives and listening to what they were saying . |
14 | One widow wrote to thank the organisers and said it was the most moving service she had ever attended . |