Example sentences of "[adv] it be [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was because I found it hard to define his place on the island . |
| 2 | I chose residential care and so it was that I came to Le Court In September 1977 . |
| 3 | So it was that I lay in honeycombs of tiny compartments , stacked into loose piles and sheaves with onion-skin leaves of paper . |
| 4 | Thus it was that I decided to give Edward Young a greater part to play in At Home in Thrush Green for , having burnt down the rectory in an earlier book , it seemed only right that I should hand over the job of replacing my act of arson to the architect I had created . |
| 5 | Now it was that I had a chance of discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar off and imitated in fairly cold blood . |
| 6 | Now it was and I turned round and I said , tried hot water and soap powder and , forget , something else , |
| 7 | Well it was when I 'd finished my midwifery training I certainly stayed on a little while in er in doing a bit of district work . |
| 8 | Yeah I did n't realize how long ago it was till I 'd eaten that . |
| 9 | And how it was that I had rediscovered the gift in pubescence , as if prompted by my burgeoning sexuality . |
| 10 | I forget how it was that I told Maurice Reckitt about it before Eliot , who usually received prior intelligence about my activities in this sphere . |
| 11 | Maybe it was because I 'd seen Ronnie Lane of The Faces — who was my hero at that age — wearing a pair on TV . |
| 12 | There was never any question in my mind : there it was and I knew it . |
| 13 | Well do n't know where it is cos I did n't , I did n't |
| 14 | So I was looking for , I did n't know where it was and I thought well |
| 15 | I wondered , since my mother was principally concerned for my health , and Lili only for my dress , why it was that I had felt secure until my mother arrived . |
| 16 | I tried to explain why it was that I went into the bushes , tried to make it sound reasonable . ’ |
| 17 | Naturally June could n't understand why it was that I went on cutting her . |