Example sentences of "he [vb past] that it was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recalled that it was on tour in South Africa that they were christened the Pumas . |
| 2 | He was picking the letter up when he noticed that it was in Elinor 's own handwriting . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't believe you can go on like this and get away with it , ’ was his core phrase , prepared with care because he believed that it was in the King 's idiom . |
| 4 | When asked for the authority upon which the second of these propositions was based , he replied that it was to be found in section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 , and in the principles stated by the majority of the House of Lords in Gillick v. West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 . |
| 5 | At one point he indicated that it was in the best interests of the investigation . |
| 6 | But he thought that it was as if Fael-Inis had somehow taken a shard of pure light and splintered it , and then scattered it about them . |
| 7 | And then he remembered that it was in exactly this position in exactly this place that he had turned to face Lucy , less than three weeks ago , shouting obscenities at her . |
| 8 | He said that it was like taking dictation , ‘ as if I was ghosting for another man ’ . |
| 9 | In his essay on population ( 1798 ) he wrote that it was beyond ‘ human ingenuity ’ to eradicate it . |
| 10 | Leaving the whorehouse with the wig tucked under an arm , he reflected that it was worth at least what he had paid to have Surere off his back . |