Example sentences of "it was [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it was young Victoria |
| 2 | Not that it was young Mr Gotobed 's fault , his father was alive then , and in charge of the mine , but Mr Evans says all that family was tarred with the same brush , only thinking of profits . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | It was young Robert . |
| 5 | ‘ It was Black Michael ! ’ |
| 6 | It was Black Michael and another man . |
| 7 | It was unlike Constance to worry . |
| 8 | It was late March . |
| 9 | It was late September now , and he had spent the day keeping an eye lifting at the weather , which promised foul . |
| 10 | It was late September , and children playing in the streets gave the city an air of holiday as we travelled through the outskirts of Parma . |
| 11 | It was late July , hot , sultry and uncannily still . |
| 12 | It was late August and the first south-easterly gale of the season was blowing strongly over Mykines , crashing into the rocky ‘ geo ’ which is the island 's only landing-place . |
| 13 | It was late August and inevitably , the quay was packed with home-going Italian boats . |
| 14 | It was late August now and Taipei remained intensely hot , a city set in a bowl ringed with mountains , hence its oppressive humidity . |
| 15 | The farmer sent him to keep a flock of larks off a field that had just been set with winter corn : ‘ It was late November or early December ; and when it got dark about half past four time I made my way back to the farm thinking my job was done . |
| 16 | It was Wee Charlie . |
| 17 | I 've never seen anyone so astonished unless it was dear Beryl . |
| 18 | Well it was well Dawn 's mum came into school she said we were |
| 19 | It was poor Jacob who caught it in the neck . |
| 20 | Unquestionably it was ancient Rome 's greatest legacy to the medieval world , greater probably even than its literature and its poetry . |
| 21 | He turned his head lazily and smiled before standing up and explaining that as it was Good Friday his mother had gone to church with some old friends and was likely to have dinner with them as well . |
| 22 | He 'd explained that his sister was on the pumps at the Smiling Service Filling Station , even though it was Good Friday . |
| 23 | It was possible Mrs Fribbins bruise was caused by accident or by someone else . |
| 24 | It was possible Mrs Fribbins bruise was caused by accident or by someone else . |
| 25 | A second registrar examined Christopher , but decided it was possible Celia and Danny were telling the truth . |
| 26 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |
| 27 | It was Bloody Sunday in the Maiden City . |
| 28 | AS AN advertisement for Second Division football , it was pure Jim Dunk . |
| 29 | Yes , it was pure Sylvie . |
| 30 | It was early September so getting dark with the street lights already lit , and the restaurant stood under some arches . |