Example sentences of "[noun sg] that it was [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It took us a couple of years to persuade the council that it was their fault not ours . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yanto and Billy heard the blonde tell the landlord that it was her birthday as she ordered the drinks . |
| 4 | And he obviously did n't know and it was n't public knowledge that it was his wife that was |
| 5 | ‘ I understand from the Echo man that it was your paper in Nature that put him onto the track , ’ Kegan said maliciously . |
| 6 | It was , if you like to put it that way , it was a status that it was your district . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Something about the way he approached the Saab 900 Carlsson suggested that he still likes to put his foot down : perhaps it was the way his right elbow automatically felt for a resting place against the window , perhaps it was just the fact that it was his birthday ( 42 ) . |