Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] was [adv] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't turn his head to look after them and he was so still that even at a short distance they could no longer distinguish him from his surroundings . |
| 2 | And it was not only that he had not got what he had hoped for , nor was it the jealousy which made him feel unsure . |
| 3 | The nineteenth century saw the mill converted to flour milling , with three pairs of millstones driven by an overshot waterwheel of 22 foot diameter , and it was probably then that a weatherboarded hoist loft was added to the building . |
| 4 | It was Joan who told me of her death , and it was probably then that I wrote to your father and we started to exchange Christmas cards . |
| 5 | It was n't just some inevitable reserve because of the age difference , and it was n't just that she was an intensely private person whose public persona did n't tell the whole story . |
| 6 | Within the massiveness of the Science Museum , the Aeronautical Gallery can be found on the top floor and it was up here that the careful replanning and reshaping of the exhibits and display space took place . |
| 7 | All too soon it was time to go and it was almost reluctantly that she drove him back to Brooklands . |
| 8 | Accordingly , most products developed were based on large , textual databases and it was only slowly that developers began stretching the medium to deliver images and sound in addition to text . |
| 9 | In fact Dewey had left unassigned the section 539 , in the physics schedules , allowing , very fortunately , for future developments , and it was only later that the new subjects received their allotted positions in subsequent editions of the scheme . |
| 10 | Liban turned in her direction with a levelled spear , and it was only then that she understood she must escape . |
| 11 | Scales arrived back and it was only then that Wycliffe want into the office . |
| 12 | He grinned down at her and it was only then that she realised just what she had said . |
| 13 | It states that the Croats were marched back into Yugoslavia , and it was only there that the mass-killings by Tito 's supporters began . |
| 14 | It worried him a bit , but it was n't here that he looked nervous and gave me reason to be concerned . |
| 15 | But it was not often that events of the past ten years paraded their shadowy happenings for her attention ; very uncomfortable some of them were too — one unhappy little gamble of Dada 's emptied her purse quite considerably . |
| 16 | I 'd read it when I was doing my A levels at the crammer , but it was only now that I really appreciated it . |
| 17 | She fell asleep for a short time but it was about 3am that Mr and Mrs Phillips noticed she was not breathing , ’ said Mr Goldring . |