Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] it [vb past] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than ever it seemed that Doreen wanted to discuss matters that niggled at her mind , even with a stranger , so she turned in her chair to face the other woman and said frankly , ‘ I do n't see how you can blame my aunt . |
| 2 | Then there was the controversy over how many centuries Gooch had scored and eventually it meant that the ton Gooch scored against India Under-25s at Cuttack at the end of last month was , in fact , the 99th , and not the magical 100th . |
| 3 | And so it happened that Jenny came to live with Winnie Bailey , rejoicing in her new flat and the modern kitchen where she had full scope for her passion for cooking . |
| 4 | The officer waited out in the corridor and so it happened that , on leaving , one of the nurses in a hurry to get home said : ‘ You could take her flowers if you 're going back in . ’ |
| 5 | You could n't understand it and mockingly it seemed that you were n't meant to : it was all just there , a small-scale catastrophe , quite ordinary although it seemed not to be . |
| 6 | The Arnhem debacle effectively put an end to our hopes of peace by Christmas , and gradually it seemed that the combined Allied armies were slithering to a halt . |
| 7 | AST Research Inc is determined to come out as one of the winners in the bitter battle for share in the personal computer market , and yesterday it announced that rather than let the business go in the spin-off of the TE Electronics manufacturing operations , it had made an offer for Tandy Corp 's personal computer manufacturing operations , which had been accepted . |
| 8 | And yesterday it emerged that Britain 's inflation rate of 4.1pc had fallen below that of Germany for the first time in 25 years . |
| 9 | I had regarded the English language almost as my own private possession , something which was mine by right , and now it seemed that I was going to have to fight to hang on to it , as I was having to fight for everything else . |
| 10 | The kids had been sent to her mother 's house , and now it seemed that they had a new surrogate father . |
| 11 | And now it seemed that she had his understanding — and his love . |
| 12 | They had never even tried it until she had first seen Alain and now it seemed that every step she took was to be supervised . |
| 13 | And then it seemed that Duvall understood at last that he had been shot . |
| 14 | And then it got that it blew over did n't it ? |
| 15 | Well , maybe ‘ blossom ’ is an exaggeration , but I told Gillian one or two of Oliver 's jokes , and we talked about being apprehensive over coming to the group , and then it emerged that she was half-French , and I had something to say about that , and the estate agent tried to bring in Germany but we were n't having any of it , and before I knew where I was I had half-turned my shoulder to exclude the other chap and was saying , ‘ Look , I know you 've only more or less just arrived , but you would n't like a spot of supper would you ? |
| 16 | Moreover , men were selfish , cold-hearted and dull , and yet it seemed that , for some reason she could n't quite fathom , a woman needed to have a man around . |
| 17 | The antibiotics were being injected into the brain at doses sufficient to block all protein synthesis for several hours , and yet it appeared that no other aspect of the animal 's behaviour was affected — not its capacity to perform already learned tasks , to see and respond to the world around or to act otherwise ‘ normally ’ ; the only thing it seemingly could n't do was to memorize new tasks . |
| 18 | Time and again it appeared that people had given up secure employment to farm full-time . |
| 19 | That political crisis both drove and was driven by the economic crisis : but again and again it emerged that the key lay in politics . |
| 20 | A few leading officials believed that free speech , human rights and other concepts embraced by the term ‘ democracy ’ were honourable in themselves , but mostly it appeared that support for democracy was based on promoting economic progress . |
| 21 | But anyway it transpired that there were two groups sort of working towards the same end and nobody could work out what sort of erm role each played and it was terrible . |
| 22 | But yesterday it emerged that the four judges had written to Mr Tony Byrne , BAFTA president , saying they had voted for GBH , the Alan Bleasdale drama starring Robert Lindsay as leader of a corrupt city council . |
| 23 | But yesterday it emerged that the four judges had written to Mr Tony Byrne , BAFTA president , saying they had voted for GBH , the Alan Bleasdale drama starring Robert Lindsay as leader of a corrupt city council . |
| 24 | Crisp had slowed almost to a trot , but still it seemed that he might hold on . |
| 25 | Now she felt better , but still it seemed that everything had changed . |
| 26 | They had supposed the threat of Naggaroth all but extinguished , but now it seemed that the Dark Elves had merely been rebuilding their strength . |
| 27 | Only a few years before , Camille had been acutely concerned about her mother 's appearance , sometimes refusing to be seen with her in public , but now it seemed that she no longer minded : she had expropriated from Scarlet 's wardrobe those few articles that she felt would suit herself and had thereafter left her mother to her own devices . |
| 28 | But actually it emphasised that various communities , including some in West Scotland , were still at risk because their houses were served by lead pipes and lead-lined cisterns . |
| 29 | The Church throughout the world received orders and instructions which it obeyed willingly enough , though sometimes it regretted that there were no arrangements for dialogue and that it had not been invited to collaborate ; the result was that unity had to be lived out in passive acceptance rather than celebrated in fraternity ( Pensiamo al Concilio 9 ; see Hebblethwaite , 1984 , p. 409 ) . |
| 30 | And this difference between them and such initially sympathetic Englishmen as Hewlett and Newbolt went very deep ; for ultimately it meant that , when the question arose whether the artist 's first responsibility was to his art ( his trade ) or to his society , Pound and Lewis and Ford would opt for the first alternative , Hewlett and Newbolt for the second — as indeed we soon see them doing when both of them answer the call of First World War patriotism by writing moralebuilding poems and stories . |