Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [was/were] that [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps it was that he had not wanted to turn Bertha 's disappointment with her daughters into bitterness by seeing him show too much interest in his son . |
| 2 | So it was that they went on to do other things , but separately ; a ‘ beautiful ’ working relationship was thereby broken up , and two highly creative thinkers had their play-writing ambitions stillborn . |
| 3 | And so it was that she died alone in a mental hospital — as Eliot told Violet Schiff , one of the few who had known them both from their earliest days together , death could only have been a deliverance for her . |
| 4 | And so it was that she did n't hear Andrew come in and enter the sitting-room , there to see his daughter dressed for going out in her wide-skirted jersey dress , her black hair hanging loose about her shoulders , and wearing , of all things , green-lobed earrings . |
| 5 | I chose residential care and so it was that I came to Le Court In September 1977 . |
| 6 | So it was that I lay in honeycombs of tiny compartments , stacked into loose piles and sheaves with onion-skin leaves of paper . |
| 7 | And so it was that he gained his passport to that respectability which lay so easily on his shoulders by the time his picture was painted : he would be apprenticed . |
| 8 | So it was that he escorted Betty there in 1986 , taking tea in the Tiffin Room and enjoying a plate of fish and chips . |
| 9 | Thus it was that we made use of every method in the book to fan into flame the natural resentment of the public against a big and unfair bully kicking a man when he was down . |
| 10 | Thus it was that we had some very palpable hits , but no real engagements . |
| 11 | Not much else is needed to prompt a visit than a map and some route descriptions , so thus it was that we found ourselves between the Vénéon and the Etançons on the campsite at La Bérade in August . |
| 12 | And thus it was that she came to be , that February evening , standing at the top of the tower block staircase , leaning against the wall and panting a little from her climb , pausing for a moment and thinking gloomy thoughts about life and death . |
| 13 | And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Here it was that he learnt to draw dresses . |
| 17 | And how it was that I had rediscovered the gift in pubescence , as if prompted by my burgeoning sexuality . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Can we ask Mr how it was that he eliminated three sectors ? |
| 20 | Because then it was that she knew , with blinding clarity , what had been there for some time now . |
| 21 | She could n't quite remember when it was that she 'd realized Georg took it for granted they 'd get married as soon as she was old enough . |
| 22 | And then he wondered why it was that he had n't heard that satisfying little clunk the coin usually made as it dropped inside the machine . |
| 23 | A very famous Yoga teacher from India came to England and , after observing many Yoga classes , asked the instructor why it was that he did not first teach his students to sit , stand and walk with balance and coordination before teaching them the more complicated postures . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I tried to explain why it was that I went into the bushes , tried to make it sound reasonable . ’ |
| 26 | Naturally June could n't understand why it was that I went on cutting her . |
| 27 | Indeed , why it was that she felt so breathless now . |
| 28 | She tried not to dwell on why it was that she had n't . |