Example sentences of "thus it was that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And thus it was that she came to be , that February evening , standing at the top of the tower block staircase , leaning against the wall and panting a little from her climb , pausing for a moment and thinking gloomy thoughts about life and death . |
| 2 | And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up . |
| 3 | Thus it was that a caddish cub reporter from the Cricklewood Cricket drew the following response : ‘ A quarter of my age in years multiplied by a fifth of my age in years multiplied by a forty-fifth of my age in years gives my age in years . ’ |
| 4 | And thus it was that when the day shift set off back to the Barracks that evening , Jackie Tiptoe remained behind , suspended from the ceiling like a crooked spider snarled up in its own web . |
| 5 | Thus it was that we had some very palpable hits , but no real engagements . |
| 6 | Thus it was that the dinosaurs were astonishingly successful for 140 million years — a period of dominance in which the mammals of the day ( and there were plenty of mammals about ) were pushed into the background , or at least into holes in the ground and in trees . |
| 7 | Having done the honourable thing , the Emperor now felt himself free and thus it was that on 15 January 1853 he wrote formally to Eugénie 's mother , requesting the hand of her daughter in marriage . |
| 8 | Thus it was that I decided to give Edward Young a greater part to play in At Home in Thrush Green for , having burnt down the rectory in an earlier book , it seemed only right that I should hand over the job of replacing my act of arson to the architect I had created . |
| 9 | Thus it was that we made use of every method in the book to fan into flame the natural resentment of the public against a big and unfair bully kicking a man when he was down . |
| 10 | Thus it was that Ira Dilworth paid tribute and bade farewell to Emily Carr with the borrowed lines from Thomas Hardy , and I am certain that none would object if I borrow them as my tribute to both . |
| 11 | Thus it was that on 3 January she decided to mark the occasion by letting go of another gasket , this time in one of her auxiliary purification circuits . |
| 12 | Thus it was that the 30 mph ( 50 km/h ) speed limit in built up areas led to a 50 per cent reduction in pedestrian deaths in London by 1935 . |
| 13 | Thus it was that Prince Richard 's latest appeal went unanswered . |
| 14 | Thus it was that the world took such note of Fleischmann and Pons ' claim to have found a novel approach . |
| 15 | Thus it was that Jones ' notebooks are signed by Phillips with the statement |
| 16 | Thus it was that on Monday 6 March the summit took place at Brigham Young University involving administrators and scientists from the two universities . |
| 17 | Thus it was that on Friday , 17 March the university press officer interviewed Fleischmann and Pons , who were even then in the process of revising their preliminary note , and the office had a press release ready by the Monday morning . |
| 18 | Not much else is needed to prompt a visit than a map and some route descriptions , so thus it was that we found ourselves between the Vénéon and the Etançons on the campsite at La Bérade in August . |
| 19 | Thus it was that Philip VI , who was not without military skill and experience , felt obliged to seek out and , if possible , defeat the English king and his Norman supporters . |
| 20 | Thus it was that the country which , reflecting the convictions of an invincible alliance of the middle and working classes , chose parliamentary reform , limited and partial but irreversibly directed towards full political democracy , and avoided revolution . |
| 21 | Thus it was that both the sun and our faces were shining when we took the telecabin to the top of the nearest mountain and developed a habit which was to stick like glühwein : rösti — a Swiss potato cake , fried , with two eggs on top . |
| 22 | Thus it was that his greatest hurdle to date had been asking his lordship for a job . |
| 23 | Thus it was that a young cosmochelonian of the Steady Gait faction , testing a new telescope with which he hoped to make measurements of the precise albedo of Great A'Tuin 's right eye , was on this eventful evening the first outsider to see the smoke rise hubward from the burning of the oldest city in the world . |
| 24 | Thus it was that in March 1983 , IBM launched the IBM XT , a denomination that still stands today . |
| 25 | Thus it was that the idea of pictures as mere contributions to the decor was happily turned on its head the minute this visitor entered the darkened room and was greeted by a series of large colour photos of what could be described as ‘ Still-life with Penis ’ . |
| 26 | Thus it was that in 1983 , accepting a quota of 1.2 million against Iran 's 2.4 , Iraq entered a caveat that its figure should be revised upwards if and when the Syrian line reopened . |
| 27 | Thus it was that Mrs Clamp found herself looking after my father while he insisted on looking after me . |
| 28 | Thus it was that at 6 30 the same barely-to-bed morning the column found itself outside the newsagent 's in Aycliffe , joined shortly afterwards by the ebullient Edgar . |
| 29 | Thus it was that Britain and Spain produced two distinct political responses to the crisis . |