Example sentences of "and it was [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , she was telling the story of a man who was travelling over the moor and it was many years ago on horseback and er he was completely lost and wan , it was getting dark and he wanted to stay somewhere for the night and he sort of travelled and could n't see anywhere and eventually down a long drive he saw a house wi , blazing with lights so he went down this house and er , all the windows were alight , you know were lit up and he knocked at the door and knocked at the door , and knocked at the door and could n't get any answer , no one ever came to the door so in desperation he thought well this is no good ! |
| 2 | The following day saw a remarkable change in the weather , the wind had dropped considerably , blue skies , and sunshine reigned supreme and it was all systems go for a cracking airshow . |
| 3 | And it was all thanks to Charlie . |
| 4 | And it was all thanks to a mugging . |
| 5 | His agitation seemed an aspect of my fading dream , and it was several moments before I could take in what he was saying . |
| 6 | The house seemed to be an absolute maze of rooms , though , and it was several minutes before she finally opened a door that led into a surprisingly well-equipped kitchen . |
| 7 | And it was several minutes before her quick ears picked up , from somewhere well ahead of her , the snap of a broken branch under a trampling foot . |
| 8 | Her lifeless fingers refused to obey the simplest of commands , and it was several minutes before she felt the spray , as hot as she could bear , pounding her stiffened body back into life , tingling the nerve-ends until she felt almost human again . |
| 9 | It was because of his deafness , not his more obvious injuries , that he was being invalided out , and it was several days before he finally joined us and took up his culinary duties . |
| 10 | The railway grapevine was not the sophisticated piece of equipment we know today , and it was several years before I discovered the reason for these ‘ apparitions ’ . |
| 11 | " That 's his business , and it was several years ago , anyway . |
| 12 | She became seriously ill , and it was several weeks before Dr Kenneth would allow her out of bed . |
| 13 | On the river 's northern bank a troop of black-uniformed Prussian Hussars shadowed the Red Lancers , and it was those Hussars who , rounding a bend in the Sambre Valley , discovered a party of French engineers floating a pontoon bridge off the southern bank . |
| 14 | And it was those waves which were to carry him , steadily and inexorably , to a far-distant grave . |
| 15 | Convention , technique , and an empathy with the popular mind all went into the perfecting of the Chaplin act and it was these things that enabled him to become Sennett 's most accomplished pupil and which allowed him to create the cinema 's most appealing and most universal symbol . |
| 16 | The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | Most verbs had three consonants , and it was these scribes who superimposed a system of vowels which became the standard text . |
| 19 | What seemed likely to him was that Adam had allowed some undesirable person or persons access to the place and it was these vagrants or hippies — there had been a lot of hippies still about then — were responsible . |
| 20 | I felt — I could not be more certain than that — that when I had treated polio cases on previous occasions I had actually sensed wasting muscles making slight quivers , contracting with the pain of a spasm ; and it was these contractions of muscles which , following normal treatment , so often caused shortening of the leg when the muscles withered . |
| 21 | Dissident chairmen were , however , frequently able to gain the support of other chairmen on specific issues of Area Board independence , and it was these issues that became the substantive ones between the central regime and the Boards . |
| 22 | Cows and calves inside were led to safety , and it was some hours later that firemen discovered a body in the debris . |