Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [be] [conj] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was that at 18 , from 1778–9 , William went to ‘ Lancashire-north-of-the-Sands ’ , and he loved it . |
| 2 | So it was that at 9 o'clock sharp the following morning , Aj , our warden in charge , arrived to show us what needed to be done . |
| 3 | So it was that in 1932 , James took the journey from the colony to the metropolis with his sights set on becoming a novelist . |
| 4 | So it was that in 1972 the knowledge that consistency paid off , that concentration was necessary , that racing went to the prudent as well as to the bold began to pay off for Emerson . |
| 5 | Thus it was that on 3 January she decided to mark the occasion by letting go of another gasket , this time in one of her auxiliary purification circuits . |
| 6 | Having done the honourable thing , the Emperor now felt himself free and thus it was that on 15 January 1853 he wrote formally to Eugénie 's mother , requesting the hand of her daughter in marriage . |
| 7 | Thus it was that at 6 30 the same barely-to-bed morning the column found itself outside the newsagent 's in Aycliffe , joined shortly afterwards by the ebullient Edgar . |
| 8 | Thus it was that in 1983 , accepting a quota of 1.2 million against Iran 's 2.4 , Iraq entered a caveat that its figure should be revised upwards if and when the Syrian line reopened . |