Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [prep] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it came to Hazel that if Bigwig was dead — and what else could hold him silent in the mud ? — then he himself must get the others away before the dreadful loss could drain their courage and break their spirit — as it would if they stayed by the body . |
| 2 | Suddenly it dawned on Ramsay that this flag was considerably larger than that flown by the Regent . |
| 3 | Suddenly it seemed to Honor that a bond was being forged between them . |
| 4 | Suddenly it occurred to Alexei that in the event that he failed to return from the embassy the question of solemnising the marriage would not arise , and he wondered again how far he could trust Burun . |
| 5 | Suddenly it occurred to Willie that the church would soon be filled with people . |
| 6 | but you see unless the day was cut short no flesh would be saved anyway , so it proves in Matthew that there is gon na be some flesh left |
| 7 | A close contest between two evenly matched crews had been predicted and so it proved in conditions that were considerably better than had been anticipated . |
| 8 | Gradually it dawned on Peter that Molland wanted more than confirmation of his decisions and to demonstrate his own honesty : he honestly believed that this numbingly tedious attention to detail was doing Peter a favour by distracting him from his grief . |
| 9 | He had never employed a girl before or since and now it seemed to Lyn that Dadda had hand-picked her for Stephen without the knowledge of either of them . |
| 10 | Now it follows by definition that learning can only be brought into operation when the occasion allows leisure for conscious thought about the language being used and its conformity to rule , when there is time to ‘ focus on form ’ . |
| 11 | Slowly it dawned on Alexander that the tension that he had first noticed was not of specific parts , as he had first presumed , but of himself as a whole being . |
| 12 | And then it occurred to Cathy that although the old man was lying exactly as she had seen him , something had changed . |
| 13 | But then it occurred to Mungo that Mr Zamoyski 's position was not unlike his own . |
| 14 | If it is really necessary to think of mental states as having qualitative content ( and see Dennett , 1988 , for some powerful arguments that it is not ) , then it follows from functionalism that such qualia do not have causal interactions with other mental states or behaviour and are mere epiphenomena . |
| 15 | Briefly it occurred to Kelly that it would be sensible to lie . |