Example sentences of "and it was [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unbeaten Gloucester are their Courage visitors on Saturday and it was Loughborough , previously unbeaten until they met Quins , who stepped out at Sudbury last night . |
| 2 | back no he said and it was dad 'd tell you more he he said |
| 3 | And it was brand new . |
| 4 | ‘ And it was Stratton ? ’ |
| 5 | They liked and respected Carrie 's father , who had been their foreman at Galloway 's , and it was Sharkey who had told Carrie about Fred wanting a serving-girl for the cafe . |
| 6 | She looked forward to his usual visit that evening , but he did not come , and it was Comfort who appeared at half-past nine to remake Julia 's bed and see that she had everything she needed for the night . |
| 7 | The littoral was well integrated into the market economy even before the beginning of British rule , and it was families from this area who were able to gain wealth through trade and other capitalist ventures when the cash economy expanded inland in the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | And the light room the machine case where the machine for revolving the five the lens which er weighed about five tons and there were this machine revolved the lens and it was machine was solid brass erm just which had to be polished e e every week and er oh beautiful brass polished brass and nobody ever saw these things you know except maybe the commissioners when they came round no no visitors there . |
| 9 | And it was works like these , where the kitchen table was strewn with the un-washed remains of breakfast , that helped to give the movement its name . |
| 10 | He lost the leadership of Leeds to Ellery Hanley and it was Hanley who was made skipper of Great Britain in Australia this summer . |
| 11 | Nobody spoke for a while and it was Sarah who eventually broke the silence . |
| 12 | It was quarter to nine in the morning and it was Oliver speaking . |
| 13 | And it was Bicester Town six , their highest score of the season , as far as their home matches are concerned , and Swindon Athletic one . |
| 14 | In other words , in the contrast between a humanities and a science and technological education , there was an underlying gulf in the conceptions of what a higher education stood for ; and it was Snow 's failure to recognize that that lay at the heart of Leavis ' attack on Snow 's association of the two cultures . ’ |
| 15 | And it was Sky 's fault that the match commentators chose to talk about anything and everything except the horrendous football on display . |
| 16 | Chapman took the defensive centre-half idea from a suggestion by Buchan , and it was Buchan who proposed another tactical innovation . |
| 17 | And it was Meli who went with him to Brighton . |
| 18 | Very kind , but international players are supposed to be habitually influential , and it was Hazard who in the second half , with a few incisive passes , gifts from the heavens on a day like this , left a greater mark . |
| 19 | ‘ And it was swans that do that , ’ said Masklin , weakly . |
| 20 | Felipe took no notice whatever of his sister and it was Maggie who had to comfort her and assure her that no harm had been done . |
| 21 | The snatch had taken place at Greenwich Village 's Café à Go Go and it was Wilcock and fellow Voice journalist Nat Hentoff who provided the backbone of the ‘ Emergency Committee Against the Harassment of Lennie Bruce ’ . |
| 22 | In 1894 she was in a position to build her own home at Munstead Wood and it was Lutyens , sharing her feelings for the Surrey vernacular and the arts and crafts lifestyle , who designed it for her . |
| 23 | In particular , Keyes had come to identify with the Romantic movement , and it was Heath-Stubbs who was able to broaden Keyes 's base by tracing for him the origins of Romanticism in primitive legends through the medieval to the Augustan poets . |
| 24 | Machine tools of its size and accuracy were so rare at that time that it could earn £10 a day , and it was Clement 's principal source of income for ten years . |
| 25 | I turned round to see who it was and it was Bob Marley . |
| 26 | And it was Bob who took me out . |
| 27 | When the Berlin Wall was erected in August 1961 the Americans seemed powerless and it was Brandt , as Mayor of Berlin , who stole the limelight from Adenauer in opposing the Soviets and East Germans . |
| 28 | So we sat on this row and it was Paul and his young lady and David all in the row with us . |
| 29 | He looked at them in silence and it was Acorn who spoke next . |
| 30 | And it was marriage again , only white and spring churchyard and hundreds of people smiling about it all . |