Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] that [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This led to a study of condensation in the Earth 's atmosphere , and it was here that his greatest contributions were made . |
| 2 | As for girlfriends , it was here that my eidetiking came in particularly useful . |
| 3 | ‘ It was here that my middle daughter , Nephthys , found Nefi . |
| 4 | It was just that their minds went — ‘ Space Oddity ’ — guys are going into space — sounds like a commercial idea — go for it . |
| 5 | it was just that her imagination , so strong and enticing , was apt to sweep away the barrier between itself and reality . |
| 6 | His voice was low , easy , the faint accent she 'd barely noticed before more pronounced now , unless it was just that her senses had been heightened by that devastatingly thorough kiss . |
| 7 | She was n't disappointed at all , she told herself severely — it was just that her pride had taken a bit of a blow . |
| 8 | There was no kind of animosity at all because we are still friends with him but it was just that his presence did n't do anything dramatic for the group creatively so we asked him to go . ’ |
| 9 | No bones gritted or grated , even though his ankles now felt miserably weak , it was just that his muscles would n't firm up enough to keep him straight . |
| 10 | I do n't think he meant to yell , it was just that his voice echoed a lot in the underground car park . |
| 11 | It was today that her mother and two brothers would be arriving in Little Kirkton . |
| 12 | It was only after birth that she suffered the injury , and it was then that her rights were encroached upon and she commenced to have rights . |
| 13 | It was then that her stomach began to yaw , for it occurred to her that she had no solid evidence at all with which to tackle Taczek . |
| 14 | It was then that her physical need of him kept her wide-eyed and restless . |
| 15 | But it was then that her conscience started to plague her once more . |
| 16 | Nigger had first started running around with Terry and his twin brother Joe , in his mid-teens , and it was then that his many brushes with the law began . |
| 17 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 18 | It was then that my mum came over to me . |
| 19 | It was then that my saviour arrived . |
| 20 | It was then that my sister , Clare , encouraged me to ride the family horse again . |
| 21 | The Soviets , who had arrived at Heathrow the previous evening , were taken to Twickenham to train and practise , and it was there that their assistant manager Douglas Kavtalashvilli made the offer . |
| 22 | His mother , his father 's senior wife , was living in a village , Nkrohl , near the little town of Half Assini almost on the border of the French Ivory coast : it was there that his father , a goldsmith , practised his trade . |
| 23 | And it was there that my father started his er lace factory . |