Example sentences of "and it [was/were] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was to restore order , as much as anything , that a nominally Vietnamese administration provided at least the façade of an ‘ independent ’ Vietnamese government . |
| 2 | A terrible , impersonal courtesy had crept into Luke 's manner , and it was breaking Maria 's heart all over again . |
| 3 | This treaty was enlarged and extended on 24 June 1931 and it was given material expression in Afghan neutrality during the Second World War . |
| 4 | It was weird and it was getting Liam down . |
| 5 | On April 11 , 1990 , Czechoslovakia formally applied to join the Council of Europe , and it was granted observer status on May 7 [ see below for Havel 's address on May 10 ] . |
| 6 | And it was rewarded faith . |
| 7 | The ride from Pimlico to Portobello took well over ninety minutes and it was gone midnight when I beached the car on a double yellow line outside my sock . |
| 8 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 9 | I tied a fly which was extremely successful and it was called Hordern Pheasant Tail Nymph . |
| 10 | ‘ Wanted sheep but got cow , and it was promised weeks ago , ’ Iris complained . |
| 11 | A new organ was installed in the Hallam Hall during 1951 as a further War Memorial , and it was inaugurated w th a series of recitals during the November of that year . |
| 12 | But , all the same , she would n't feel safe until they were finally aboard the train and it was heading south out of Central Station . |
| 13 | The country lacked the technology to store the waste safely and it was threatening water supplies . |
| 14 | For instance , I was writing a new song and it was making sense and suddenly these words came into my head : Once there was two Mexican women/ran over the hill/ripped off their skin/and ate it up . |
| 15 | Just like girls were there , I was there and it was making love , that 's all I saw it as . |
| 16 | Eight men were to be charged the following March with conspiracy in Chicago , and it was to provide cause célèbre by proxy for the British radical movements . |
| 17 | One class I proposed to visit , but was warned off as only one member was likely to be interested in a workers movement , all the others were retired from professions and it was thought I ( a gardener ) might offend them … |
| 18 | In fact , Christy 's hitting a wood for his second shot and it was going way to the left . |
| 19 | And as he leaned against the railings he suddenly tasted it , the moment Creed had planned for him , the moment he 'd always longed for , dreaded now , still longed for , and it was burnt sugar , sweet and caustic , on his tongue , it was like the flight of a bird across a window , it was there and it was gone , he could n't dwell on it , he could n't let the terror in , all he knew was what it would do for him , he knew that it would give him membership , he 'd be past the sliding sheet of glass , he 'd finally belong . |