Example sentences of "it was [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was her usual response to shock . |
| 2 | It was her usual time . |
| 3 | It was her usual face , homely , familiar — diminished merely and made incongruous by the setting ; it wandered ghostly , with Edward 's alongside , across the Aladdin 's caves beyond . |
| 4 | Eager to see Bella , she had got up as soon as she was awake , although it was her usual habit to lie , for twenty minutes or so , drowsy , cocooned in her warm bed , entertaining herself with fantasies . |
| 5 | It was her deep sorrow and unhappiness at the tragic accident that had brought them to the United States , together with all the fraught , highly charged tension of having to be in Ross 's company for any length of time , which had taken its toll of her already precariously weak reserves of strength . |
| 6 | It was her only possession and stayed with her night and day , even into the brain scan machine at St John 's Hospital , Chelmsford . |
| 7 | It was her only concession to family feeling , which had been severely strained during Terry 's stay with her after he came out of prison . |
| 8 | It was her only concern . |
| 9 | It was her best dress because it was her only dress ; otherwise her wardrobe consisted only of three or four shabby black skirts and four or five shapeless black sweaters all with snagged stitches slowly unravelling themselves , and the elbows worn thin and pale . |
| 10 | Occasionally when she was wearing this she had a trick of lifting it like wings , or ruffling it as if it was her real plumage , and she 'd declare : ‘ My dears , I am preparing for The Flight — into Egypt , to the islands , to the New World — who knows ! ’ |
| 11 | Sometimes it was her grand mother . |
| 12 | Sometimes in her memory , it was her faceless father who was two fingers short instead . |
| 13 | It was her present delight , this business with the wax , and Dowd cursed it , given that it fell to him to unpack these treasures . |
| 14 | And she was going through and she knew them and er she was going into I it was her second year bio-chemistry exams on the bus and she 's got a bi a text book on bio-chemistry and she 's reading the introduction bit before you even get into proper bio-chemistry and Michael s look leant across and said , what on earth are you doing ? |
| 15 | and his wife , it was her second marriage , her first one had been to the doctor and he had actually examined paedophilia backed off , basically said well she did n't , she could n't get a conviction but it was quite clear that he had the motive and he 'd had the opportunity because Connie died from the fire which Harvey Jones had set cos he found out |
| 16 | It was her second spell at the pub , having run a tenancy for several years with her estranged husband , Steve . |
| 17 | It was her second husband , David , who died 16 years ago , who persuaded her to adopt orphaned elephants to see if they could be nursed through their grief and restored to health . |
| 18 | It was her second visit to the prison in three years . |
| 19 | And it was her second car that she 'd ever had sort of thing . |
| 20 | Inevitably there was a lot of sycophantic non sense around her too.Thus when she made a blood donation , the director of the clinic declared that the room would remain a shrine for her and everyone who now had a transfusion would insist that it was her divine blood that flowed and miraculously and potently into his veins . |
| 21 | It was her firm belief that the quickest way to achieve mental health was to absorb oneself in the problems of others and , in this particular centre , it seemed to have worked . |
| 22 | It was her second-favourite pastime . |
| 23 | It was her preferred position , slings notwithstanding . |
| 24 | It was her relentless sense of order which had scaffolded her life . |
| 25 | And she came in and she had this , this baby , and it was her thirteenth baby and it weighed fourteen pounds . |
| 26 | Penny knew at once that it was her lost budgerigar . |
| 27 | It was her first day at school . |
| 28 | It was her first experience of staying in a country house . |
| 29 | ‘ The job and getting back to it was her first thought , ’ said Barry , 38 . |
| 30 | And as it was her first run , a chip inserted into the bluetower in her skull was recording her own performance . |