Example sentences of "[coord] it [be] then [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 And it was then she had decided that war work or not , her daughter 's excursions with convalescent wounded must stop at once .
2 Caro Hunt says that at the age of five he could beat her and it was then she realised he had a lot of promise .
3 He was a very large guy , and it was then she clicked that she was conversing with Ronnie Kray of the infamous Kray twins .
4 ‘ Tell Mr. McCloy it 's no dice , ’ I heard him say and it was then I said had he got a match ?
5 I once had to step out of the water with 5½ stone of weights on me , and it was then I resolved to diet .
6 His navigational skills were required at Rió Grande and it was then he painted his Learjet with the name Ángel de Muerte , on both sides , so that on the radio beamed to the English they could say the Ángel of Death was coming with his French missiles loaded to kill . ’
7 He could hardly believe his eyes and it was then he knew that he was unable to rely on his sensory feelings ( the kinaesthetic sense ) .
8 He was staring out of the carriage window , seeing nothing of the countryside because the image of Sarah with Corrie Palmer in her arms was superimposed on everything he looked at , and it was then he remembered something important .
9 You took the ferry at Dalmeny and then used the horses from the royal stables at Aberdour to journey to Kinghorn , and it was then you found the King 's body lying on the beach ? ’
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