Example sentences of "he [vb past] [conj] it was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as he looked out of the window on the morning after he arrived ( he tells them ) and saw what the place was like , he realized that it was based on the tutorial system . |
| 2 | When he found that it was locked , he understood what his grandsons had done , and he sat down and wept for their hardness of heart . |
| 3 | He added that it was believed an anti-aircraft gun was in the locality and that it was fired recently . |
| 4 | He assumed that it was exhausted , wasted by the work at the end of the long winter , and he blamed himself . |
| 5 | Blake left this behind after he escaped and it was examined by experts . |
| 6 | He submitted that it was reached at a time when the essential principles of the law of negligence were established and properly represented the result of the application of those principles . |
| 7 | When the angel came to the rock he saw that it was covered by a lovely green creeping plant . |
| 8 | As he raised it to his lips he saw that it was brimming with drowned black insects . |
| 9 | Turning it over , he saw that it was sealed up , and broke it open . |
| 10 | He felt like it was asking him a question or searching for something in his mind . |
| 11 | So he did and it was voted on and it was agreed . |
| 12 | He said that it was suspected that the SIB unit at the cottage was an army intelligence assassination squad . |
| 13 | He said that it was felt that the change would give both parties more freedom of choice , and stressed that he would continue to use Tory on a freelance basis and was not intending to appoint another stable jockey before the end of the season . |
| 14 | The following year , at a CNAA awards ceremony , he emphasized that it was planning , for academic reasons , a ‘ major shift in the work of validating courses from the Council to the Polytechnics and Colleges running them ’ . |