Example sentences of "that it was [art] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that she wanted to weep , and she was shaking so badly inside that it was a wonder she could still stand up straight at all , she snorted derisively , because she was too afraid to believe his words . |
| 2 | He was so strong and confident , so sure of himself , that it was a pity he held all women in contempt . |
| 3 | The BDDA , as long ago as 1924 , foresaw this unhappy industrial crisis , and recognising that it was a question it could not handle alone , the National Institute was requested to deal with it . |
| 4 | Neither spoke ; they knew that it was a trauma she had to face . |
| 5 | Angelica had already decided that her money could be taken out of the petty cash and then lost in the books somewhere … and if ever they should be caught doing it , she did n't feel that it was a crime she 'd be ashamed of . |
| 6 | And in that twilight world between waking and sleeping she saw that it was a face she knew , her own . |
| 7 | Then I told myself that it was the state I was in and somehow I pulled myself together and came home . ’ |
| 8 | Conscious of a ripping sound , she heard her zip go , then her taffeta skirt was rustling to the floor and he was pulling her down among its glossy folds , his lips marauding over hers so that it was the way it was in the unrequited dreams of the empty nights when everything came down to the touch of him like the still centre of the entire world . |
| 9 | One woman told me that it was the day she was able to swim the width of the local pool after years of being afraid . |
| 10 | He saw the hideous face of the huge thrashing thing before him , superimposed on that blank mask , and knew that it was the face he had been looking for since the death of his wife and son . |
| 11 | Mr Loxton was sure that it was the actor he had witnessed near the shop at about the incriminating time . |
| 12 | Alice knew that it was the situation he was examining ; he was not used to this informality , to group-living , but he was giving it his consideration . |
| 13 | It did not matter that it was the Rose they had grown to like . |
| 14 | Jinkwa noted with pleasure that it was the female he and the General had encountered near that strange blue object . |
| 15 | The strange thing is that I ca n't say I was unhappy in the Service , and generally speaking I enjoyed myself , even coming to realise as time went by that it was an experience I would hate to have missed — and yet , for years afterwards I used to have nightmares about my life in uniform . |
| 16 | Protocol in turn suggested that it was an invitation they could n't refuse . |
| 17 | He knew that it was an invitation he would accept . |
| 18 | He suspects that a black mark went firmly down against his name for turning down the job and when he was later asked to become personnel manager for that division of ICI he was left in no doubt that it was an offer he should not refuse . |