Example sentences of "it was [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he realised it was all a put-up job , he tore a strip off Julie . |
| 2 | She had so clearly implied that of course it was all a charade , but that Conchis must not know it was ; that she was in fancy-dress for him , not for me . |
| 3 | I thought for a moment that she had been re-reading " Das Kapital " in her spare time , but I suspect that it was all a charade . |
| 4 | ‘ If I go now I 'll meet the constable on the way and tell him it was all a misunderstanding . ’ |
| 5 | It was all a kind of madness , and Waugh did indeed go mad in the mid-1950s . |
| 6 | It was all a question of catching it at the right angle . |
| 7 | It was all a question of balance . |
| 8 | She says that it was all a question of remembering rules and methods . |
| 9 | Then it was all a lie . |
| 10 | ‘ You said — you made me believe — It was all a lie , was n't it ? |
| 11 | It was all a mixture . |
| 12 | I thought nothing of it ; it was all a part of the selection process and the more extreme it proved itself to be , the happier I felt , for I was enjoying the feeling of succeeding and managing while others failed . |
| 13 | It was all a part of his arrogant manner , but once more Robbie felt that unaccountable weakness invade her bones . |
| 14 | It was all a mistake of course . |
| 15 | I kept telling myself that it was all a mistake , some kind of ghastly mistake . |
| 16 | Basically , he avoids discussion of his amazing wartime adventures , preferring to indicate that it was all a mistake . |
| 17 | And it was all a mistake about his being missing because he was there now , at the perimeter fence , smiling his lovely smile , saying ‘ Hullo , Jenny . ’ |
| 18 | I ca n't just turn round and say , ‘ Sorry , chaps , it was all a mistake . ’ ' |
| 19 | No , but not because , as some people argue , Poland 's mishap does n't matter anyway because it was all a mistake . |
| 20 | How could he tell her that it was all a mistake ? |
| 21 | You 'll explain that it was all a mistake . ’ |
| 22 | Perhaps it was all a mistake , thought Pascoe . |
| 23 | Need a good scientist who say that last July went and discovered a planet larger than the earth in another solar system and now said , oh it was all a mistake ! |
| 24 | It was all a gag really . |
| 25 | ‘ They figured out it was all a scam , right ? ’ says Joanne . |
| 26 | He fell to thinking of the shape in the well-pit , and then dropped into a drowsy half-dream , in which El-ahrairah said that it was all a trick of his to disguise himself as Poison-tree and put the stones in the wall , to engage Strawberry 's attention while he himself was getting acquainted with Nildro-hain . |
| 27 | It was all a smokescreen to make them believe that the Clarion Call had been lost at sea . |
| 28 | Erm so I c I could n't buy any of what you were telling me and it 's all like a , it was all a smokescreen I was putting up , the accountant , basically I , I was not erm buying anything er and the compressed funding was just blowing my mind because I could n't understa er it was basically giving me an easy option to say I do n't need to do anything cos I can compress my funding at forty five wo n't I , when my business has taken off . |
| 29 | ‘ They tried to explain that it was only sand and it was all a stunt , but it was lit up with radioactivity signs and we take our environmental responsibilities very seriously . ’ |
| 30 | It was all a bit odder than that . |