Example sentences of "it be [that] [pers pn] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of the odd things about it is that he was wearing brand-new clothes , ’ he added . |
| 2 | ‘ If anything can be concluded from this book , it is that I was born , ’ writes Sisson after touching on that event , which occurred 75 years ago in a building since occupied by the Bristol Rovers Supporters Club . |
| 3 | His voice was muffled by something — could it be that he was smoking a cigar even whilst disembodied ? |
| 4 | She said most of it was it was n't the actual looking at the hole it was that she was hurting him pushing it in . |
| 5 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 6 | An order was made under section 4(2) of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 postponing publication or report of certain details of the proceedings until after the conclusion of all 24 numbered indictments in a schedule , when it would be announced in open court by Judge McMullan that the order had expired ; the order stated that the purpose of making it was that it was adjudged to be necessary to avoid a substantive risk of prejudice to the administration of justice in other pending proceedings . |
| 7 | It was that he was beginning to understand why Aziz the janitor and his friends might be convinced he was no ordinary child . |
| 8 | The original crucifix had been much smaller , too small in fact to contain whatever it was that he was cradling in his hand . |
| 9 | Perhaps it was that he was talking about now . |