Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] that [pers pn] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So give us some indication of what sort of press release it was so that we know what we 're talking about in the |
| 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 | Perhaps he could n't bear to , perhaps it was just that he felt his marriage to be a private affair . |
| 5 | ‘ It was just that I heard it call so I knew there must be one about . ’ |
| 6 | It was more that he carried them reluctantly with him . |
| 7 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 8 | It was now that she gained her reputation for eccentricity . |
| 9 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 10 | Youthful confidence , I suppose , or perhaps it was simply that I felt I had no alternative , there was nothing else I could do . ’ |
| 11 | It was here that he met his future wife , Jan , and the pair eventually set up their own practice . |
| 12 | Jam-packed with a complete run of Plebs and sets of the TUC and Labour Party conference reports , it was here that he wrote his book The Labour College Movement . |
| 13 | Jam-packed with a complete run of Plebs and sets of the TUC and Labour Party conference reports , it was here that he wrote his book The Labour College Movement . |
| 14 | It was here that he made his name , carrying out the first really ambitious operation of its kind in the country , which was to be a blueprint for his ‘ Great Design ’ for the Fens . |
| 15 | It was n't that he minded her presence ; and he did n't mind her company , on those occasions when he actually spent time with her . |
| 16 | It was n't that I thought myself deserving of more delight than was offered the mass of mankind ( I told myself ) but that the common lot seemed so dire . |
| 17 | It was n't that she had anything against him personally ; he was a charming and clever man , dedicated to his school , an entrepreneur who was using the fruits of his success to fulfil a lifetime 's dream — and good luck to him , she thought . |
| 18 | It was n't that she wanted him to be here with her . |
| 19 | It was then that we spotted something white moving high up on the cliffs , under a colony of kittiwakes — our first fox . |
| 20 | These end-of-day meetings were very important , for it was then that we reviewed our progress , comparing our morning 's expectations with the fruits of our labours . |
| 21 | It was then that he sensed her extreme youth ; the twin globes of her dark breasts with their sharp , neat points were hard and solid , her skin , a deep indigo in the near-blackness , was velvet-smooth , entirely without hair . |
| 22 | It was then that he felt his true strength as an eagle coming at last . |
| 23 | Arguably , however , his most brilliant work was done during the many months of relative inactivity that followed , for it was then that he remoulded his demoralized command into a confident , compact fighting unit . |
| 24 | It was then that I noticed something suspicious . |
| 25 | It was then that I made my mind up . |
| 26 | It was then that I made my never-to-be-forgotten answer , ‘ Mum 's lost , down the fair . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It was then that I realised what a lovely person he was , ’ says Avril . |
| 28 | But as I left my car and started to go into the house it was then that I realised I was falling under the spell of this Englishwoman who had been such a delightful and charming companion that day . ’ |
| 29 | It was then that I realised I needed some first aid training . ’ |
| 30 | It was then that I saw her wild , inhuman face ! |