Example sentences of "[pers pn] was thus [that] " in BNC.

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1 It was thus that I had been able to gain some sense of the sort of place Miss Kenton had gone to live her married life .
2 It was thus that it acquired its unique form : 35 km long and about 1.6 km wide with steep sides sloping to a flat bed .
3 Although she continued to knit , and sat upright , it was thus that she felt herself ; and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures .
4 It was thus that the classic wine-growing areas — the Camp of Tarragona and the Panadés — were expanded and the western regions re-peopled .
5 It was thus that he arrived at his figure of six hundred and twenty thousand three hundred and thirty one pounds to the overall cost of future care in this case .
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