Example sentences of "the [noun sg] that it was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It took us a couple of years to persuade the council that it was their fault not ours . |
| 2 | Yanto and Billy heard the blonde tell the landlord that it was her birthday as she ordered the drinks . |
| 3 | ‘ it was an unusual opportunity , to put it at its lowest , and that it is to be inferred from the evidence that it was one which was of particular interest to the Perot family . |
| 4 | Joanna 's startled face jolted Isabel into the realisation that it was she who had spoken , not the reeve . |
| 5 | These older Shetlanders seemed to create the incomers ' links to the community , in the sense that it was they who helped to forge the reputations attributed to these incomers . |
| 6 | What had happened , because his holidays coincided with mine , was that my father had become my mother as well as my father , in the sense that it was he and not she who was always at home . |
| 7 | The Times recorded that this was their sixth partnership of over 150 ; the Telegraph that it was their seventh century stand ; while the Guardian made it the eighth . |
| 8 | I could n't bear the thought that it was you he loved . |
| 9 | ‘ After a while I stopped blaming myself and simply accepted the fact that it was nothing personal , no major failing on my part , it was simply the way Claire was . |
| 10 | Something about the way he approached the Saab 900 Carlsson suggested that he still likes to put his foot down : perhaps it was the way his right elbow automatically felt for a resting place against the window , perhaps it was just the fact that it was his birthday ( 42 ) . |
| 11 | Sir Charles Webb-Bowen offered his ear to the urgent promptings of a party apparatchik ; the fact that it was his ‘ bad ’ ear , lent a certain comedy to the proceedings . |
| 12 | ‘ I just wish I could be sure that your chosen career had nothing to do with the fact that it was mine ! ’ |
| 13 | Although it was Dorothy who had come to interview the officials at PopCon ( ’ an Intergovernmental Agency for Fundamental Research into the Worldwide Problems of Population Stabilisation' ) , she kept getting the impression that it was they who were interrogating her . |
| 14 | Of course , ’ he added with a twisted smile , ‘ it was n't until your last day in the office that I realised you were under the impression that it was I who 'd had the affair with Elise . ’ |
| 15 | She had n't given much thought to what the house that her father had left would be like , but she had not gained the impression that it was anything like this . |