Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said to me when they find out what it is she could soon have you on your feet , but she thought it were that shadow on me lung . |
| 2 | It was extra train on Sunday and today , to prepare for tomorrow 's vital game against Peterborough . |
| 3 | It was late afternoon on an operational day , and seventeen or eighteen Lancasters were marshalled on either side of the runway , all bombed-up and ready for take-off , when ops were suddenly cancelled . |
| 4 | It was late afternoon on August 28 last year , the day that Anna McGurk , an office worker with Gloucester city council , was strangled . |
| 5 | The older ones took turns to accompany their father , then it was all hands on deck getting breakfast and everyone ready for ten o'clock Sunday School . |
| 6 | It was all hands on deck as they worked flat out over a weekend in March . |
| 7 | It was all hands on deck as the crew of the Soren Larsen , prepared to lift the first part of the ship 's 100 ft foremast back into place . |
| 8 | And William in there with fists flailing and Preston inevitably drawn in , too , as the fight spread until they were hauled off to the headmaster 's study for retribution ; he was a caning head and it was two strokes on each hand for a fight in the playground , four for the classroom . |
| 9 | ‘ But it was good food on board , on the whole ; and you could always help yourself with biscuits and a bit of cheese or something . |
| 10 | ‘ It was sheer inspiration on the spur of the moment , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ It was sheer stupidity on my part , ’ Maggie confessed , but Felipe looked down at her intently and shook his head . |
| 12 | It was pure speculation on her part — and yet there had been a family scandal , years ago , before her mother had married ; she could vaguely remember her mother talking about it — and it had concerned her brother , Ellie 's uncle . |
| 13 | ‘ When , in answer to his assumption that there was to be an early wedding , I asked what was going round the grapevine now , he told me it was pure speculation on his part , stemming from the fact that you 'd just handed in your resignation . ’ |
| 14 | I found no great welcome ; people seemed quite oblivious of my arrival , and no doubt it was unconscious arrogance on my part to expect it to be otherwise . |
| 15 | It was 2310 hours on 19 February 1942 . |
| 16 | It was hard luck on Steinmark , that went without saying , but if the man had been lurking in disreputable quarters and lurching home drunk , it was his own fault . |
| 17 | ‘ It was bad luck on Darryll Holland , who probably would have been riding here but for picking up a four-day suspension . |
| 18 | As Johnston said , it was bad luck on Dave Millard who had begun brilliantly and who , though eventually submerged by force of circumstances , had still shown Johnston a player he evidently never saw in Australia . |
| 19 | Oh it is a flap , I thought it was red tape on there . |
| 20 | Mr Justice Pearson held that the report was protected by qualified privilege , as it was fair information on a subject of public interest . |
| 21 | She 'd known that it was childish behaviour on her part , but she had n't been able to help herself . |
| 22 | And , I thought it was lovely pattern on there ! |
| 23 | It was some kid on a jumped up ego trip . ’ |
| 24 | It was some kid on a jumped up ego trip . ’ |
| 25 | Not surprisingly , it was this rule on which the Revenue rested its argument that the taxpayer should be taxed on the full amount of the benefit , even though it was aware that at the time the 1976 Finance Bill was being debated , the then Financial Secretary to the Treasury , Robert Sheldon , expressly stated that the benefit of a school place given at concessionary rates to the child of a teacher at that school would be ‘ assessed on the cost to the employer , which would be very small indeed in this case ’ . |
| 26 | Then the shipyards sank without trace , and it was three years on the dole . |
| 27 | Everyone knew about Mandy , it was common knowledge on the streets . |
| 28 | I thought it was another book on Mediterranean cooking there somewhere |
| 29 | It was wonderful skiing on this warm , sunny day amongst the crevasses and ice cliffs , then onto the classic Vallee Blanche run at the end of a perfect day . |