Example sentences of "[noun sg] that it was [pron] " 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 | The truth is that there is an embarrassment of riches in Joyce 's work that it was what to leave out which posed the problem , not what to include . |
| 3 | " It took us a couple of years to persuade the council that it was their fault not ours . |
| 4 | Zenaida the sorceress jumped on her from behind , one hand at her throat , the other yanking at her hair ; she screeched , and the bird flapping over her head screeched with her , but Carmellina could tell from the look in its pale green eye that it was her true love under a spell from the wicked enchantress , and she fell to her knees and clutched the skirts of Zenaida ( what was she underneath ? |
| 5 | He needed no reminder that it was his own union which had prospered in many British ports while Tillett 's Tea Operatives ' Union established in July 1887 at about the same time as his own had failed even to develop any wider organization in the Port of London itself . |
| 6 | Shinwell believed to his dying day that it was he who had been the intended target of French 's bullet . |
| 7 | But sleep came unawares , for he was woken by Luib in the dark and told by the peppery old Myrcan that it was his watch , and that Corrary was on after him . |
| 8 | Yanto and Billy heard the blonde tell the landlord that it was her birthday as she ordered the drinks . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | What was more , Fox was satisfied that the presence of Alfred 's fresh prints on the damaged articles was convincing evidence that it was he who had carried out the destruction . |
| 11 | And he obviously did n't know and it was n't public knowledge that it was his wife that was |
| 12 | But Breeze still had an uneasy feeling that it was something more . |
| 13 | These older Shetlanders seemed to create the incomers ' links to the community , in the sense that it was they who helped to forge the reputations attributed to these incomers . |
| 14 | What had happened , because his holidays coincided with mine , was that my father had become my mother as well as my father , in the sense that it was he and not she who was always at home . |
| 15 | Joanna 's startled face jolted Isabel into the realisation that it was she who had spoken , not the reeve . |
| 16 | The Times recorded that this was their sixth partnership of over 150 ; the Telegraph that it was their seventh century stand ; while the Guardian made it the eighth . |
| 17 | I could n't bear the thought that it was you he loved . |
| 18 | ‘ I understand from the Echo man that it was your paper in Nature that put him onto the track , ’ Kegan said maliciously . |
| 19 | It was , if you like to put it that way , it was a status that it was your district . ’ |
| 20 | He was seized with a certainty that it was his own son . |
| 21 | On the death of her father in 1866 she suffered physical and mental breakdown , confiding in a letter that it was her religion that held her up . |
| 22 | He then realised that he had already seen his son some distance from the door and that his conviction that it was him had been totally irrational . |
| 23 | It is a measure of Mr Smith 's extraordinarily well-starred political horoscope that it was his quiet , determined recovery from his illness — rather than illness itself — that leaves the more lasting impression in one 's mind . |
| 24 | He had no doubt that it was something devious , and her tone indicated she had already made her choice for him . |
| 25 | No doubt that it was him . |
| 26 | ‘ There is no doubt that it was you in charge when the hoax call was made . |
| 27 | The trust is invalid on several counts : no property has been bequeathed to the curator so the principle of benefit is infringed ; if the curator had been validly appointed , which he has not , then he would be able to exercise some control over the foster-child 's use of the land ; but even then , since he would not be owner , it would be a problem that it was he who was charged with the trust for distributing shares in the income from the land . |
| 28 | There was no proof that it was he who had taken the necklace . |
| 29 | Mam would n't say anything because she did n't want to throw it in his face that it was her money going down his throat . |
| 30 | He moved him a little and saw from his face that it was someone else . |