Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] it was [indef pn] " in BNC.

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1 It flashed through my mind that it was someone who was allowed out in the grounds of Bourani and down at Moutsa only on pain of keeping herself concealed .
2 ‘ it was an unusual opportunity , to put it at its lowest , and that it is to be inferred from the evidence that it was one which was of particular interest to the Perot family .
3 But Breeze still had an uneasy feeling that it was something more .
4 He had no doubt that it was something devious , and her tone indicated she had already made her choice for him .
5 He moved him a little and saw from his face that it was someone else .
6 ‘ After a while I stopped blaming myself and simply accepted the fact that it was nothing personal , no major failing on my part , it was simply the way Claire was .
7 She had n't given much thought to what the house that her father had left would be like , but she had not gained the impression that it was anything like this .
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