Example sentences of "it was [det] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But after that , well , it was all sea breezes . |
2 | But there were certainly trolley buses when I went there in nineteen thirty one and trolley buses first came in in nineteen twenty three and it was all trolley buses by nineteen twenty six . |
3 | Er it was all home security systems . |
4 | but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages |
5 | It was all Dorset words , I mean that was really be beautiful ! |
6 | days you see , like I was out Monday I was busy all day Monday and then I Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday here yet I was busy , but it was all brain work |
7 | And it was all girdle scones scones muffins cream scones currant scones pancakes crumpets treacle crumpets treacle pancakes and all this . |
8 | On the second floor it was all the scones and tea bread and currant bread and on the top floor it was all confectionery work and sponge making and what have you and pies . |
9 | They it was all piece work , there . |
10 | It was all Uncle Willi 's fault that Karl was so angry with her . |
11 | Well , I could go to the casting and asked him to put the pattern in and fire it for it , to cut the sand out like that , you know so that the metal 'd run in like that and you 'd got the big head as you wanted , you know and er it 'd take you like castings with the machine and all that sort of thing , it was all hand stuff you know and yeah |
12 | There was no snow ploughs in those days , it was all hand cut if they were cutting drifts it was manual labour . |
13 | Then Ron Dennis got up and said it was all John Barnard 's work and.McLaren 's and they were bloody geniuses and Niki … |
14 | it was a it was all business people and you 're talking about |
15 | I 've known ghosts who went back to their houses or caravans or their stately homes and there was n't a trace of them left , it was all tower blocks or allotments or -one lady ghost told me — a supermarket . |
16 | And the week before it was all Christmas stuff was still in there . |
17 | It is important to grasp what it was that peace activists thought they were trying to prevent . |
18 | It was that phone call that sent me up the cul-de-sac . |
19 | The book represents an attempt to explain the series of unexpected corporate failures over the past few years and why it was that company accounts do not appear to have given adequate warning of what was to happen . |
20 | It was that Southeast Asia was ‘ the target of a co-ordinated offensive plainly directed by the Kremlin ’ . |
21 | ‘ It was that truck driver who was intent on murder , ’ Monica interjected grimly . |
22 | But rapture it was that Saturday afternoon in the spring of 1990 when Ian McGeechan 's tartan lads won the Grand Slam , the Triple Crown , the Calcutta Cup and the hearts of all of us numb with tear-stained joy in the stands and terracings of Murrayfield . |
23 | Everton 's crisp passing bewildered Tottenham , and it was that fellow Beardsley running the show . |
24 | It was that murder mystery thing on last night was n't it ? |
25 | Thus it was that youth unemployment brought about , or at the very least greatly hastened , ‘ the new FE ’ , and with it the spread of courses for students with moderate learning difficulties . |
26 | But shortly before the break , it was former Hereford player Paul Wheeler who put Chester two ahead . |
27 | The ghost of Linfield past has been laid to rest and it was former team manager Eric Bowyer who began the exorcism — in somewhat bizarre circumstances . |
28 | It was former Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan who , McGilligan reckons , helped to put him on the road to success . |
29 | I done a one the other day that was twenty five pence it was some charity thing . |
30 | It was some country mansion in Oxfordshire you know ? |