Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] that it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year actually on the job had taught me that it was n't quite so simple ! |
| 2 | Legend has it that it was here that Yusuf met his death beneath the hooves of his enemies , steeds ; here also that El Cid received a fatal wound . |
| 3 | Legend has it that it was once fired on by a warship because it failed to reply to a signal ! |
| 4 | erm I I found it that it was a very pleasant layout . |
| 5 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 6 | John assured me that it was easy and I watched , amazed , as his hands turned the pieces to assemble it again . |
| 7 | I quickly told them that it was their problem and they who had to sort it out . |
| 8 | Darwin told them that it was ‘ First Class ’ , that is within plus or minus one degree . |
| 9 | He told me that it was necessary for them to start praying at home every day . |
| 10 | He had been just too young for the Korean War , and one day he told me that it was one of the experiences he regretted having missed . |
| 11 | They told me that it was of no use to me any more and that I 'd be better off letting them have it . |
| 12 | John told me that it was a red-throated diver ; and those lovely creatures have remained favourites of mine ever since . |
| 13 | Lionel Luyt told me that it was only when he reached Europe a few years later that he realized how far ahead of his South African contemporaries John had been , doing things which he must have invented for himself because he had not had the chance to see them put into practice by others . |
| 14 | He told me that it was a shrine to Ban Bhāi , god of the forest . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On one visit to Chapman in Norfolk , he told me that it was true he always worked ‘ to the most minimal margins ’ and that he ‘ subordinated everything to creating the fastest possible car ’ . |
| 17 | Some told me that it was ‘ useless ’ to put up posters . |
| 18 | Several Veterans ' of the Winter of discontent' told me that it was mainly the younger students who got together with their teachers to protest . |
| 19 | The doctor told me that it was the first time she had made an advance to anybody . |
| 20 | My instinct , both of mercy and goodwill , was to seek Barbara 's approval to a reference to the Prime Minister , but an even stronger instinct told me that it was likely to be met by a flat refusal and that the negotiating process would be stillborn . |
| 21 | Police told me that it was probably taken by joyriders , and will end up miles away in somewhere like Bristol . |
| 22 | And er , er , the next thing I remember was er , er being picked up by somebody off this pile of bricks and the doctor told me that it was a gas , some sort of gas has come out of it which had overpowered me like , you know . |
| 23 | I know he told me that it was some sort of favour for something he did for your father a long time ago , but what ? ’ |
| 24 | My extended senses told me that it was vast . |
| 25 | The woman who was selling the magnificent object told me that it was only a month old and her old man , who had been killed by the Huns , had paid three quid for it : she was n't going to let it go for anything less . |
| 26 | He also consulted constitutional experts who assured him that it was in the Prime Minister 's hands to do as he chose . |
| 27 | A chink of light from behind the thick curtain told him that it was morning , and the prospect brought with it a deep sense of foreboding . |
| 28 | She told him that it was a life and death matter and could she speak to him ? |
| 29 | He also noticed a reduction in Miss T. 's awareness of what was going on around her and mentioned it to the nursing staff who told him that it was the effect of the drugs . |
| 30 | She also told him that it was prayer that had brought him to her . |