Example sentences of "was [that] [noun prp] [noun prp] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so it was that Osman Abdelal took me from the gas station and up to a small Arab village called Mazraa , clustered round the ruins of an old Roman aqueduct . |
| 2 | Thus it was that Mrs Clamp found herself looking after my father while he insisted on looking after me . |
| 3 | So it was that Ms Wainwright found herself manhandling ( if that 's the word ) the seven-by-four polystyrene boards across the frozen Alaskan wastes , often in the teeth of gale force winds and in temperatures down to -40°C . |
| 4 | The result was that Ms Gunter had her choice of more than 5,000 Near Eastern artefacts . |
| 5 | So it was that Uncle Albert closed his eyes , rested his chin on his hand , and began to have a Big Think . |
| 6 | The coroner 's verdict was that Mr Bamford killed himself and died from shock due to burns . |