Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [that] we " in BNC.

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1 She also knew that it meant that we could have a car when otherwise we could n't .
2 I was one of her daisies and it meant that we had all these hats on , which were very unattractive — a rubber hat and on top was the daisy , so when you swam around and the people looked down at you , they just saw these daisies .
3 This house was to be Lovat 's Brigade H.Q and it appeared that we were going to be there on high ground for some time .
4 Erm , I took her at her word , I still looked for work , I did n't stop looking for work but I took it that she was happy enough me being on the dole if it meant that we could stay around Bay or Anglesey .
5 The situation was only just controllable , but it seemed that we might get to bed before midnight without being beaten up .
6 ‘ Such an intensive subject assessment was stressful for the staff , ’ commented Fiona Baikie , ‘ but it helped that we were all assessed together , so no one subject or person was singled out .
7 It was worth all the hard work that we had put into it because it got that we used to use the town park towards the latter part of Barnardos day and all the men that we had gathered together used to have to erect every piece of fence to enclose like it is now , the park , is enclosed now with with fencing the men that were helping us did that all voluntarily !
8 This had been of something more than philosophical interest to Karen and I in our pre-coital phase , since it meant that we could count on at least a minute thirty seconds before he reappeared , or as much as three minutes forty-five seconds if we heard the seat go down for a big jobby .
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