Example sentences of "it was [det] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing the mist that deepened the dark grey of her eyes , the pale translucent cheeks , both so beautiful now in their glowing copper setting , it was all Benedict could do not to snatch her back into the heat of his embrace , and force his way to that intimate deep caress , the thought of which now fired him with passionate yearning . |
| 2 | They reckon it was all Quigley 's fault . |
| 3 | It was all Lawson 's fault , he ‘ confessed ’ in this election campaign , and that of the world recession . |
| 4 | It was all Isa could do to persuade Wilson to let some light in and dry her tears and tell her what ailed her ; and when she did so , it made little sense . |
| 5 | And after the break , it was all Swindon . |
| 6 | In the second half , it was all Swindon . |
| 7 | Something very funny was going on in Riverbank — and it was all Anabelle 's doing . |
| 8 | It was all Dorset words , I mean that was really be beautiful ! |
| 9 | And of course it was all Brian 's fault . |
| 10 | It was all Uncle Willi 's fault that Karl was so angry with her . |
| 11 | It was all Thérèse 's fault . |
| 12 | Really it was all Thérèse 's fault . |
| 13 | They felt they 'd been made fools of … and the ring is some sort of family heirloom and his father went on as if it was all Rick 's fault that Angy had made off with it . ’ |
| 14 | It was all Sean 's idea . |
| 15 | It was all Harriet could do not to confront her , have the whole thing out , tell her that she was not prepared to put up with such behaviour any longer , that she might be a war widow with a child , but she was living in her mother 's house and should at least not take such care and help for granted . |
| 16 | Earlier , while Faldo prospered with a blistering outward run of 32 , it was all Tryall and error for crumbling Couples . |
| 17 | Then Ron Dennis got up and said it was all John Barnard 's work and.McLaren 's and they were bloody geniuses and Niki … |
| 18 | It was all Julie could do to concentrate on driving , as she listened incredulously to the chain of events her sister recounted . |
| 19 | During that first two weeks of running through the forest , it was all Mike could do to keep up , as Christophe pursued chimps that Mike hardly ever saw . |
| 20 | It was all Julia could do then to wait until she could be certain of her voice . |
| 21 | It was only a split second but it was all Donna needed . |
| 22 | But do n't run away with the idea it was all Jerusalem the Golden . |
| 23 | It was all Wilson could do to thank her for her concern . |
| 24 | Nomish sense of smell is sharper than a fox 's ; it was all Masklin could do not to dribble . |
| 25 | It was all Rourke 's fault . |
| 26 | It was all Ligulf 's fault . |
| 27 | But rapture it was that Saturday afternoon in the spring of 1990 when Ian McGeechan 's tartan lads won the Grand Slam , the Triple Crown , the Calcutta Cup and the hearts of all of us numb with tear-stained joy in the stands and terracings of Murrayfield . |
| 28 | Just on the off chance it was that Danny . |
| 29 | And it shows , in Beerbohm and Bowra and as it survives today , how inevitable it was that Pound should have abandoned England and the English just when he did . |
| 30 | For it turned out that Pound 's poetry — The Cantos certainly but much of the earlier work also — could be understood and enjoyed only by those who had attended to Pound s criticism enough to grasp what it was that Pound was trying to do , or conceived himself to be doing , in his poetry . |