Sentence examples for it was visits from inspiring English sources

But it was visits to our relatives' Beach Cafe in Troon that really thrilled me to the marrow: not only was I dazzled by Mum's second or third cousins twice removed, Rita and Ada, with their matching beehives, one blonde, one black as the Earl of Hell's waistcoat, but this was the only time I was allowed a double nougat.

Spa reached its zenith in the 18th century, when it was visited by European royalty.

It was visiting Sunday.

It was visiting Atlanta's first hit since the sixth.

In 2005 it was visited by a Japanese spacecraft, Hayabusa, which brought back samples.

It was visited by the Portuguese in the early 16th century, but they did not settle the island.

It was visited by the British naval captain William Bligh in 1792.

It was visited in 1801 by a French expedition that explored the Western Australian coast.

Open for six months, it was visited by more than two million people.

It was visited yesterday by Magda Schleifer, above, a great-niece of Eino's mother.

It was visited (1770) by Captain James Cook, who named it after Sir Joseph Banks, and it was surveyed by John Stokes (1850).