Example sentences of "was that i [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was that I lay in honeycombs of tiny compartments , stacked into loose piles and sheaves with onion-skin leaves of paper . |
| 2 | The result of all this was that I returned to Europe and settled in Paris with her . |
| 3 | I chose residential care and so it was that I came to Le Court In September 1977 . |
| 4 | We had a succession of God-awful nannies we could n't afford — Clemence 's books had n't started to sell at that point — but the upshot was that I left for work late , came home early . |
| 5 | ‘ But why I mentioned her was that I heard by chance that she has married again . ’ |