Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the basic broad principles of the hierarchy are observable from its inception , probably toward the end of the fifteenth century , it was only gradually that it became elaborated ; and it was only with elaboration that the hierarchy tended gradually to become more rigid and to exert an increasing influence on the attitudes both of the ulema toward their own aspirations and of the people toward the ulema . |
| 2 | Although I 'd followed the progress of the King trial in the papers , it was only then that it began to hit home what a symbol he had become for the suppressed majority of my city . |
| 3 | I was just there when it started . ’ |
| 4 | A couple of days after starting this diet , Jamie 's crying was noticeably less and it became easier to get him to sleep each evening . |
| 5 | All colour had faded from the sky : and although the big board by the gate creaked slightly in the night wind ( as though to insist that it had not disappeared in the darkness , but was still firmly where it had been put ) , there was no passer-by to read the sharp , hard letters that cut straight as black knives across its white surface . |
| 6 | Looking around the bedroom , she saw that it was almost exactly as it had been in the photograph , although now there was a book open and face downwards on the patchwork quilt . |
| 7 | He gave her a child every year , but was never there when it came into the world . |