Example sentences of "and [adj] [was/were] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was making her anxious and that was no help at all . |
| 2 | And that was no excuse , and little comfort , she thought . |
| 3 | And that was no chairman , no secretary , no treasurer in the organization . |
| 4 | So when the third Whitley appeared overhead ( incidentally , Murphy said that could only have been Mahaddie ) Donnet recalled thinking that was no gentleman , and that was no Englishman . |
| 5 | Johnny Miller hit his shots high , ballooned them , and that was no good this year . |
| 6 | The trouble was , Dan liked it so much he tended to spread it around and that was no good to Kate . |
| 7 | Erm I think it was an inter-club actually , oh the inter-club table show was the only night he could manage and that was no good to us so erm we , we the only way we could do it was to t bring him the night that there was a full table show transfer the full table show to the champion of champions judge that first and put the winning fish into the champion of champions and I know , well it 's gon na be woof you know a rush and that will , oh well , never mind . |
| 8 | Somebody said wavy , and that was a shape almost . |
| 9 | Ships sailing to India which were not directly owned or managed by the Company were considered to be permanently chartered to the Company , but the value of the charter to the vessel 's owners and officers was determined by the port to which it was sent , and that was a decision made by the Company . |
| 10 | and that was a half of his lump sum . |
| 11 | hooked around the perhaps it 's not gon na making things like , they have n't well it 's the only and that was a while ago , so what you have to do mum is I 'll tell you what I did last night I normally have to hold the arms while I use |
| 12 | And that was a laugh , she reflected ironically . |
| 13 | ‘ And that was a mistake , Frank . |
| 14 | Then we tried to cut across the fields at the bottom and that was a mistake , they were all ploughed up . |
| 15 | They used to cost about two hundred pounds in those days and that was a heck of a sum in those days you know that sort of thing , how much they cost and had to be careful of them and all that . |
| 16 | And that was a surprise . |
| 17 | It sounded as if Fox was interested in him , and that was a fate she would n't wish on anyone . |
| 18 | No film received as much publicity as I am a Fugitive and that was a film more conventional than most critics suspected and which only attacked corrupt and degrading aspects of the South , a part of the country always regarded as a backwater and therefore as relatively easy game . |
| 19 | There was only one thing he lacked and that was a wife . |
| 20 | And that was a relief and a horror together . |
| 21 | She cut him dead , and that was a relief also . |
| 22 | Her chihuahua was making its ‘ business ’ in the gutter , and that was a relief because it meant she would n't have to take him out again in the evening , and wait around for him . |
| 23 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 24 | While it would have been preferable if the second defendant participated in the trial in Ohio , and that was a consideration to be taken into account on forum conveniens , that factor was insufficient to outweigh the other factors . |
| 25 | Well he , he appreciated at the previous table show on the sixth of October and that was a case when it was always you know , because Danny only told me on that night that he could come . |
| 26 | And that was a Day Centre . |
| 27 | Last year , you 'll remember , we had to absorb , in fact in the Tussauds group , about three quarters of a million er , pounds on the increase in V A T and that was a blow to us at the beginning of the season , you remember it was the budget more or less this time last year . |
| 28 | And that was a fortnight ago when I had the first scan . |
| 29 | But er I 've had one arrest in there and that was a girl . |
| 30 | Only one patient who had been receiving NSAIDs was still anaemic and that was a man with rheumatoid arthritis whose haemoglobin concentration was 12.7 g/dl . |