Example sentences of "it was [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Sunday night and Scott was watching Space Man on television . |
| 2 | And it was Sunday afternoon when I came out the pit the next time . |
| 3 | But yesterday afternoon I mean , it was Sunday afternoon after all ! |
| 4 | It was Sunday evening . |
| 5 | Though it was Sunday evening and he was still in Italy . |
| 6 | I remembered it was Sunday morning ; the time for sermons and parables . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd have said it was Sunday morning if you want it right . ’ |
| 8 | It was Sunday morning after milking . |
| 9 | It was Sunday morning . |
| 10 | But as it was Sunday morning , there were few admiring fans about . |
| 11 | Ignorant of the fact that it was Battersea enamel she lit the wick beneath it , well soaked in methylated spirits . |
| 12 | She knew it was Brownie night , otherwise she would n't have been able to get Shirley out until her long-suffering husband came home . |
| 13 | Other than the four of them , and the Secretary-General , the only other person who knew about it was Jacques Rust , head of UNACO European operation , based in Zurich . |
| 14 | Up front it was Hughes ' turn to see if he was compatible , but it was full-back Paul Parker who nearly opened the door with a deep raking cross that skimmed Cantona 's dark locks . |
| 15 | Fittingly it was full-back Denis Irwin , always an eager ally in attack , who thumped home a fifth with a blistering first-time drive from 15 yards . |
| 16 | It was Liu Hui 's Chiu Chang Suan Shu , his ‘ Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art ’ , the famous third century treatise from which all Han science began . |
| 17 | It was Wyvis Hall once more , his house , but bringing him no pleasure , no deep , excited , almost sick joy . |
| 18 | It was UNACO headquarters . |
| 19 | And then I began to become very worried about it and it just happened by chance that one Friday morning I heard a programme on Radio Brighton , and it was Doctor Wisbey speaking about dyslexia , and it dawned on me immediately that my son was dyslexia . |
| 20 | It was Doctor Teesdale 's job afterwards to make sure that the man was dead . |
| 21 | It was Doctor Absalom , you know . |
| 22 | It was shell shock . |
| 23 | ‘ And he said it was all over Los Angeles that it was Jo Forbes . ’ |
| 24 | It was Sergeant Lewis . ’ |
| 25 | It was Sergeant Troy . |
| 26 | He had taken a phone call from Gabriel , half wishing it was Rose Hilaire , but wanting to feel loyal to Gaby . |
| 27 | ‘ I think it was Victoria Wood who said that there 's no such thing as bad taste in humour because if it 's bad taste no one laughs . |
| 28 | Philip could n't persuade her to say pudding , when it was ice cream or some sugary mousse . |
| 29 | ‘ Mrs McDougall — no , I think it was Archie McLaren — told me that your father looked after the garden there . ’ |
| 30 | It was J. J. Berzelius in Sweden who in the second decade of the century put atomism on a much more secure footing . |