Example sentences of "[coord] so it [be] that [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 And so it was that Ursula met Justin , the writer 's moody adolescent brother , and ran away with him .
2 And so it was that Luch was taken up to the castle for the second time .
3 And so it was that Osman Abdelal took me from the gas station and up to a small Arab village called Mazraa , clustered round the ruins of an old Roman aqueduct .
4 And so it was that Eliot was immersed in what he called ironically " show business " , and although he had reached an age where he performed his tasks more slowly , now more than ever his life was being conducted under pressure .
5 And so it was that Mary had managed to borrow one of the most expensive ‘ sparklers ’ the Gorbals had ever seen .
6 And so it was that Gladstone Murray , Ernie L. Bushnell and four others , including myself , staggered through the winter blizzard at just after 10 o'clock that evening and through the C.P.R. station to Eastbound Track No1 .
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