Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] that [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It was the reaction to my answers that interested me most .
2 ‘ Well … it was her feet that gave her away . ’
3 It was the way that their shoulder bones and ribs stood out , and their stomachs fell right into their backbones that reminded me so much of myself .
4 He smiled suddenly , something in his eyes that made her instantly wary , but when she tried to remove her hand from his arm he covered her fingers with his own and held them there .
5 It was seeing his glasses that tore me apart .
6 … The needlessness of imprinting such evident notions can not be argued from their present clearness ; because it is their being thus imprinted or thus connatural to our minds that makes them so . ’
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