Example sentences of "and it [was/were] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was Bicester Town six , their highest score of the season , as far as their home matches are concerned , and Swindon Athletic one . |
| 2 | I turned round to see who it was and it was Bob Marley . |
| 3 | Abraham Darby died in 1717 , but the family continued their operations in Shropshire through four generations , and it was Abraham Darby III who completed the famous Iron Bridge ( q.v. ) initiated by his father , Abraham II . |
| 4 | Also she was greatly occupied with the other company at Covent Garden , and it was van Praagh to whom John turned.for help . |
| 5 | And it was Ralph Knibbs who took advantage to claim the first try for Bristol . |
| 6 | Now that was the time when first daylight on Bristol , and we heard the bombers go up , and I went home out on the tram car , and there were the young ones just screaming down into the city , I said , ’ good grief , those bombers have hit something ’ , and it was Filton Aeroplane , people had direct hits on shelters you see . |
| 7 | Meisel helped launch Linda Evangelista on to the road to superstardom , and it was Von Unwerth who captured Claudia Schiffer 's sex kitten quality and used it in the Guess advertising campaign which made the model famous . |
| 8 | So if there 's a burglar then , he 'll probably be put off by I mean if he really wanted to break into any particular house for a reason , you , you might approach it , but if you have n't got th no firm house in mind you 've several houses and there 's one house without any lights on at all and it was night time , you may well go for that one first . |
| 9 | and it was money prizes but they took , they were looking for things to take marks off cos all the other schools doing it were state schools |
| 10 | Moran hardly heard ; all resentment left him as quickly as it had come : McQuaid was here and it was Monaghan Day . |
| 11 | Doyle had known Jack Stone before the bank job that had sent Stone to earth , and it was Ray Doyle , not Bodie , who Stone ‘ trusted ’ , as much as he could ever trust anyone . |
| 12 | Dundela got it together in the second half and it was Dean Smyth 's turn to save his side . |
| 13 | He had asked to be ‘ put in the way ’ of a certain variety , and it was Father D'Arcy who enquired whether his request had met with success . |
| 14 | It was Marcus Judge who had created the Brotherhood and selected likely candidates for it , and it was Marcus Judge who decided upon punishment when a man 's work was unsatisfactory , when he was guilty of negligence , dishonesty or — worst crime of all — treachery . |
| 15 | But you do n't you remember Carla had a bath Sunday she ha , we had a bath about nine o'clock and then when we got back she went to have her bath and she got in it and it was stone cold ! |
| 16 | And then I began to become very worried about it and it just happened by chance that one Friday morning I heard a programme on Radio Brighton , and it was Doctor Wisbey speaking about dyslexia , and it dawned on me immediately that my son was dyslexia . |
| 17 | And we watched it one night , and it was Mrs Hewitt off Eastenders . |
| 18 | And it was Mrs Crumwallis who ran up the stairs and incompetently took charge . |
| 19 | And it was opener Metcalfe who got the chop for the second time this season after a run of indifferent form . |
| 20 | And it was Cousin Saul who had blackmailed Ebenezer , extorting money from him in return for his silence about Kleiber 's death . |
| 21 | And it was Sunday afternoon when I came out the pit the next time . |
| 22 | started off doing them like this and it was U D V by D X |
| 23 | It was approaching midnight in the little southern Spanish town , and it was Saturday night on the moonlit Mediterranean . |
| 24 | In some cases the process of unwinding overlapped into the weekend and it was Saturday afternoon before mind and body were fully attuned to the less hectic pace . |
| 25 | Jasper and Jennifer and the dad had their new car and it was coffin car . |
| 26 | ‘ It was boggy and muddy ground and it was pitch black , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Just when we expected to see Cordoba produce an extra gear as Walter Swinburn got to work with the whip , the son of El Gran Senor capitulated and it was Balla Cove who produced extra reserves to hold the late thrust of Rock City . |
| 28 | He now watched both men rise simultaneously to their feet , and it was James Holden who , turning to his partner , said almost in a whisper , ‘ Her … her allowance ? ’ |
| 29 | So those are our prize winners by post and it was Jimmy James and the Vagabonds next on is Angela of Lincoln . |
| 30 | None of the efforts of the Communist Party amounted to anything of a significant revolutionary threat about the General Strike and it was Winston Churchill , editing the Britain Gazette for the government , who drummed up more revolutionary potential than really existed . |