Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad wasted no words and said that it was his bird in the box whereupon C … tried to brazen out the situation by saying he had found the cockbird in the garden and was taking it to the market in the morning . |
| 2 | I took myself off and got some decent therapy and learnt that it was OK just to be — I did n't have to do all the time . |
| 3 | ‘ We discussed the condition and felt that it was a tumour . |
| 4 | As the struggle progressed he came to see the inadequacies of the term and realized that it was too constricted in its meaning and gave rise to confusion and misunderstanding . |
| 5 | She tasted blood and thought that it was Ryker 's , but then realized that her own face was gashed just below the left eye , she guessed by flying glass . |
| 6 | He had found some fence posts slack and claimed that it was impossible to reach the lifebelts from outside the fence . |
| 7 | Government recognized that nurses did not take strike action and believed that it was right to have a system of pay determination which meant that they did not lose by that policy . |
| 8 | In December the joint forestry committee of Indonesia and Malaysia called for retaliatory action and said that it was " unfair " for Western environmentalists to blame Association of South East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) countries for global problems , and said that Indonesia and Malaysia had both taken steps " to sustain forest resources " . |
| 9 | Many of the managers we then spoke with were disenchanted with their roles and felt that it was an increasingly difficult set of tasks they had to carry out . |
| 10 | The innermost southern shore of the peninsula had been the chosen land of Pythagoras , your namesake , perhaps your ancestor , the apostle of eternal return : it was in the market square at Crotone on the Gulf of Taranto south of Riba that he exposed his thigh and showed that it was golden , and so was honoured by the inhabitants as a special favourite of the gods , quasi-divine himself . |
| 11 | In a separate survey most respondents correctly understood the aim of the campaign and thought that it was appropriate in such a venue . |
| 12 | She glanced at her watch and saw that it was almost midnight . |
| 13 | I checked my watch and saw that it was Thursday . |
| 14 | Suffering fever , blindness and paralysis , they reached Lake Tanganyika in 1857 but it was Speke who eventually found Lake Victoria and realized that it was the reservoir which fed the great river . |
| 15 | After half a mile she had rejected this hypothesis and decided that it was merely because she was unattractive , the sort of person who , fifty years ago , would have worn rubber galoshes . |
| 16 | They insisted that neither loyalists nor republicans would have left 200 lb of explosive within a few feet of men and women working contentedly in the bakery kitchen and suggested that it was more like the work of outside agents , acting under strict and impersonal orders . |
| 17 | Once , when they had gone on a nature walk , Eve had pointed to a small cottage and said that it was her house . |
| 18 | A more unlikely situation for a cinema was hard to imagine , but the driver pointed to a set of steps burrowing up between two houses and explained that it was as near as he could get in a car . |
| 19 | While I was on holiday the clinic tested a blood sample without my permission and established that it was HIV positive . |
| 20 | He pointed to the important public role occupied by universities and submitted that it was wrong that they should be immune from the general law of the land : ‘ There must be no Alsatia in England where the King 's writ does not run ’ : per Scrutton L.J . |
| 21 | On one occasion in the early autumn , the Shah had turned on Sullivan , recited almost every incident of unrest and declared that it was all so sophisticated that it must be the result of foreign intrigue against him . |
| 22 | Sir : Terry Coleman reports ( 5 October ) the speech by Andrew Neil at a Fabian fringe meeting , in which he described the BBC licence fee as a poll tax and suggested that it was indistinguishable from the community charge . |
| 23 | Then he pulled down the oven door , smelt the sweet , fatty smell of the meat and knew that it was probably this very fact that accounted for his decision to go through with the business . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's sad that having made the assurances in court and accepted that it was n't an acceptable way of doing business , that it turns out that they are still carrying on . ’ |
| 25 | I pondered on these things and felt that it was not good … |
| 26 | Euan MacKie excavated the platform and found that it was artificial . |
| 27 | They all looked at the dark square and saw that it was hardly a manhole , more of a childhole . |
| 28 | In the weeks that followed he built up a regular round of customers and boasted that it was better than going to work , especially on cold winter mornings . |
| 29 | He saluted Frederica and Alexander with his rolled newspaper and said that it was cold outside . |
| 30 | Corbett stared at the hard-eyed French envoy and realised that it was impossible to press the matter . |