Example sentences of "and it [was/were] [adv] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nineteenth century saw the mill converted to flour milling , with three pairs of millstones driven by an overshot waterwheel of 22 foot diameter , and it was probably then that a weatherboarded hoist loft was added to the building . |
| 2 | It was Joan who told me of her death , and it was probably then that I wrote to your father and we started to exchange Christmas cards . |
| 3 | All too soon it was time to go and it was almost reluctantly that she drove him back to Brooklands . |
| 4 | Accordingly , most products developed were based on large , textual databases and it was only slowly that developers began stretching the medium to deliver images and sound in addition to text . |
| 5 | In fact Dewey had left unassigned the section 539 , in the physics schedules , allowing , very fortunately , for future developments , and it was only later that the new subjects received their allotted positions in subsequent editions of the scheme . |
| 6 | Liban turned in her direction with a levelled spear , and it was only then that she understood she must escape . |
| 7 | Scales arrived back and it was only then that Wycliffe want into the office . |
| 8 | He grinned down at her and it was only then that she realised just what she had said . |
| 9 | It states that the Croats were marched back into Yugoslavia , and it was only there that the mass-killings by Tito 's supporters began . |