Example sentences of "it was [adv] [art] shock " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so it did to Brother Cadfael , though for him it was equally a shock of enlightenment . |
| 2 | It was also a shock to discover that their father 's investments only yielded an income of some £190 per annum net , considerably less than Warnie ( desperate to leave the Army and live on his pension ) had been hoping . |
| 3 | Or maybe it was just the shock of the volume , the decibel-heavy onslaught leaving trousers flapping at every pounding bass line , and young ears bleeding whenever Lesley presses her gurning face to the mic . |
| 4 | It was just the shock of seeing two policemen on her doorstep . |
| 5 | It was just the shock of what you said . |
| 6 | It was just the shock of realising … of course , it must have been the killer I heard . |
| 7 | Detectives say it was probably the shock that killed her . |
| 8 | Ace was so much part of her unacknowledged dreams that it was barely a shock therefore to find herself pulled up and into his strong arms . |
| 9 | It was quite a shock to everyone when it was known that Mr Wilson had died ; he who had always seemed so solid and enduring . |
| 10 | It was quite a shock ! |
| 11 | Facing opposition from the City , from English Heritage and all the conservation groups , amenity organizations and civic societies in the country , as well as hundreds of people who work in the City , it was quite a shock when a different Environment Secretary , Nicholas Ridley , agreeing with his inspector , granted permission for demolition and redevelopment . |
| 12 | It was quite a shock , and I thought how lucky I had been never to get into a violent argument with him while he was carrying the clubs . ’ |
| 13 | And so , from 1958 onwards , these characters became my dolls , and their way , of life and the houses they inhabited became so real to me that it was quite a shock when I occasionally returned to the place which had started it all , Wood Green , near Witney . |
| 14 | It was quite a shock to learn that the Elsie found at the bottom of Loch Craig was not a twenty-six-year-old woman but a woman in her late fifties or early sixties . |
| 15 | It was quite a shock when 400 square metres of the site was found to be contaminated by radioactivity . |
| 16 | It was quite a shock but I was thrilled . ’ |
| 17 | Seriously , I did offer myself to the Lord , but when the opportunity came , it was quite a shock . |
| 18 | It was quite a shock . |
| 19 | Yes , there were er , I think there was one , two , three , four houses , four or five houses that were occupied before we came in , they were still building The Chantry incidently and er you know it was a it was quite a shock to us and the wife was a bit upset you know when having to , we came from Plymouth actually , Devon , and er the wife was a bit er down you know all the night travelling all night with the children |
| 20 | It was quite a shock . |
| 21 | It was quite a shock . |
| 22 | It was quite a shock to find a skull . |
| 23 | It was quite a shock , I can assure you . ’ |
| 24 | It was quite a shock to be told that I had Cancer and that I needed an operation as soon as possible . |
| 25 | But it was still a shock to see her like that , looking so old and spent . ’ |
| 26 | She had heard that parents like this existed all over the place and that their children turned out to be delinquents and drop-outs , but it was still a shock to meet a pair of them in the flesh . |
| 27 | She tried to feel pleased that she had n't descended from such uncompromising stock , but it was still a shock to have been told that William Ash was not her father , and that Eddie had only been her half-brother . |
| 28 | She said : ‘ Because I was a midwife I knew what was happening in my body so I was able to rationalise it , but it was still a shock . ’ |
| 29 | She said : ‘ Because I was a midwife I knew what was happening in my body so I was able to rationalise it , but it was still a shock . |
| 30 | It was always a shock to me to find the life of the University town going along normally , as though the war was happening somewhere else . |