Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] that i " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was thus that I had been able to gain some sense of the sort of place Miss Kenton had gone to live her married life . |
| 2 | I told Kidsons that I did n't think it was right that I should seek re-election , which was coming up on 30 April , and left it at that . ’ |
| 3 | I thought that it was right that I should talk to you , try and build a better picture of Michael . ’ |
| 4 | I was now completely in the dark and it was here that I would shoot whatever film I had onto the skirting board of my makeshift cinema . |
| 5 | When my children were very small we used to live on the outskirts of Richmond Park , where every day I used to take my eldest child for a walk , and it was here that I first began to collect horse mushrooms . |
| 6 | Had I read enough French novels at the time , I would have known what to expect ; and of course it was here that I fell in love for the first time . |
| 7 | The workshop classes were a mixture of all grades of academy , and it was here that I found common ground absorbing my trade instruction ; and happily in this field I was able not to be as conspicuous as I was at school . |
| 8 | It was n't that I was being purposely unfriendly , it was just that I had decided that my best chance of survival lay in my being as unobtrusive as possible . |
| 9 | I suppose I fancied him although I told myself that it was just that I felt sorry for him . |
| 10 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |
| 11 | It was just that I dislike going off half-cocked , talking too much about a project before I can see where it 's leading . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It was just that I had other things on my mind . |
| 13 | ‘ It was just that I heard it call so I knew there must be one about . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It was just that I was a bit surprised at seeing you . |
| 15 | It was just that I — that one does n't know oneself — ’ |
| 16 | And she did n't really tell me , it was just that I guessed , I 'd seen them quite a few times , mooning about , and I asked her if she was going to marry him . |
| 17 | It was just that I never expected it to happen to me . ’ |
| 18 | It was just that I loved Hugo more . |
| 19 | It was just that I was longing to be your hostess . ’ |
| 20 | It was just that I and the others in the class — at least , the ones who turned up yesterday , a lot of people did n't bother — anyway , we felt it would be nice to send some flowers and a card or something to her relatives . |
| 21 | Well i it was just that I , I missed the initial question |
| 22 | Well it does n't matter really , it was just that I sort of |
| 23 | No , I , it was just that I , you know , I mean he I recognized the voice really as he spoke . |
| 24 | The contrary relation will therefore show up in a sentential context that specifies , or at least implies , that a single event is being referred to , such as I only met Mary once , and that was today/yesterday or ( somewhat less convincingly ) It was today/yesterday that I met Mary . |
| 25 | Youthful confidence , I suppose , or perhaps it was simply that I felt I had no alternative , there was nothing else I could do . ’ |
| 26 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 27 | It was then that I became fully aware of how your personality is really at stake . |
| 28 | It was then that I began to discover the fate that awaited me as a female . |
| 29 | It was then that I conceived the idea of getting a few fans that he had in those days to walk around the television company with placards saying Lets Be Fair To The Long Hairs , which did get press publicity , and in the end , the producer relented and he did his first TV show . ’ |
| 30 | Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice . |