Example sentences of "it was [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came through and it was blue lights from wall to wall … |
| 2 | It was extra train on Sunday and today , to prepare for tomorrow 's vital game against Peterborough . |
| 3 | ‘ But it was three-and-a-half years in development and nobody could foresee at the start what the economy would be like now . |
| 4 | As he put his foot on the doorstep , a young man seemed to jostle him — it was young McCulloch from Weem , the sulky handsome lad with the curly head — why had he come hanging about here instead of hearing his own man preach in Weem ? |
| 5 | It was pleasant walking in the October afternoon , though the going was rough . |
| 6 | ELEANOR apart , for the rest of the King 's subjects the Treaty of Montlouis meant , by and large , a return to the status quo as it was fifteen days before the outbreak of war . |
| 7 | It was fifteen days before Isambard 's inconspicuous agents in Pool and about the hospitable courtyard of Strata Marcella picked up traces of the Welsh marauders . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose he thought it was boring stuff about equal pay and women ’ , she says , ‘ I went berserk . |
| 9 | By the third day Nigel realized it was boring staying in bed . |
| 10 | so it was better conditions in there . |
| 11 | Mrs Brocklebank had created a little nest for herself in the basement where she put her clothes and her big black handbag , from which she was only rarely and reluctantly parted , and where she tucked away any odds and ends it was better Brock at home did not see . |
| 12 | If it was 3 lb of beef per head per day in 1990 , it was 4 lb in 1989 . |
| 13 | It was twelve weeks of torment before the player was informed the charges were to be dropped . |
| 14 | But when I rung to take it , for them to take it back they had a special offer on and it was twelve weeks for forty pu , pa , you know , were doing it cheap |
| 15 | It was heady stuff for me . |
| 16 | At home , when they were at home they had bells in their home , and erm by pressing the appropriate button , er an electrical charge was sent across these wires , it was private wires to these homes and the bell rang , and as soon as the bell rang all hell broke loose in these , these homes . |
| 17 | It was 1.57 children per woman in 1989 , well below the 2.1 that is needed to prevent the population from eventually declining . |
| 18 | He either did n't believe her , or was so unused to accepting answers unquestioningly that it was second nature for him to delve into the nitty-gritty . |
| 19 | It was second nature to him now to note the time by the illuminated dial of his electric bedside clock before he had switched on his lamp , a second after he had felt for and silenced the raucous insistence of the telephone . |
| 20 | It was five minutes to eight when Yanto cycled over the low swing bridge on to the wharfs of Sharpness Docks . |
| 21 | Then , remembering it was five minutes past tot time , he ran down the ladder to the well deck , and away to the spare-crew mess . |
| 22 | I read the hands of the clock wrongly , thought it was 5.10 , and awoke with a jump , believing it was five minutes before the start of the marathon . |
| 23 | It was five races into the championship before it was discovered Jonny had been driving with a broken chassis , which made it impossible to get his car to handle properly . |
| 24 | and it was five pound off the |
| 25 | Gary McKeown slanted over an inviting ball , but it was criminal negligence for the visitors to allow Gary Paterson the time and space to chest the ball down before burying it in the net . |
| 26 | Gary McKeown slanted over an inviting ball , but it was criminal negligence for the visitors to allow Gary Paterson the time and space to chest the ball down before burying it in the net . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It was late afternoon on August 28 last year , the day that Anna McGurk , an office worker with Gloucester city council , was strangled . |
| 29 | It was late afternoon by the time the wherry brought us back to Botolph 's Wharf . |
| 30 | With her fingers busy and her mind occupied with the story it was late afternoon before the end of a tape brought Leonora back to earth with a start . |