Example sentences of "in [adj] that [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in vain that she told herself he was a stranger , a man who had probably by now forgotten her . |
| 2 | It was at B and D in 1932 that he directed his first film , the Mayor 's Nest starring Sydney Howard . |
| 3 | It was in 1978 that he overreached himself with a little plan to sell illicit diamonds bought by his askaris from a diamond dealer in Lesotho . |
| 4 | It was while touring the United States with Fred Karno [ q.v. ] in 1912 that he tried his luck on American vaudeville , principally in a duo with his common-law wife , Mae Dahlberg , who suggested his stage name , Laurel , although he did not adopt it legally until 1934 . |
| 5 | We called ourselves proudly the extremists , the vanguard , but it was n't until we read the American CLIT papers in 1973 that we knew we had a name other than men-haters . |
| 6 | There were two such concepts in particular that I felt I had to include . |
| 7 | It was after his move to the Italian manufacturer in 1974 that he enjoyed his first Grand Prix victory , at Jarama , in the Ferrari 312 . |
| 8 | It was not until many years later when I was a principal inspector in 1965 that I had my first direct encounter with ICAO itself . |