Example sentences of "was [adv] that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it was only that you stumbled over it . |
| 2 | It was thus that he arrived at his figure of six hundred and twenty thousand three hundred and thirty one pounds to the overall cost of future care in this case . |
| 3 | Later I realised that what made me uncomfortable was not that they looked like the inmates of those cattle trucks . |
| 4 | It was not that I objected to the public baths . |
| 5 | At the head of Gunnerside Gill beyond the ruins of Blakethwaite Mine are the ruined dams of Blakethwaite , and it was here that we stopped for our lunch . |
| 6 | Had I read enough French novels at the time , I would have known what to expect ; and of course it was here that I fell in love for the first time . |
| 7 | It was here that he died in March 1779 and laid to rest beside the sea in the churchyard at Marske . |
| 8 | It was n't that he wanted to be more imaginative than them . |
| 9 | IT WAS the middle of the week when the Marui Pipeline Masters should have been on and was n't that I ran into Pottz in D'Amicos . |
| 10 | It was then that they disagreed for the first time about the terms of their verbal agreement and a serious rift developed between them . |
| 11 | It was then that it slammed into the back of |
| 12 | It was then that it occurred to me that there was some connection between Jean-Claude 's relationship with Ahmed and Meaulnes 's with Frantz . |
| 13 | It was then that I went to school for the first time , to a Roman Catholic convent in Ealing , not because of my parents ' religious beliefs but because it was thought to be educationally superior to any of the state-run schools in the locality . |
| 14 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |
| 15 | It was then that she began to really drift from University life . |
| 16 | It was then that she looked into his eyes and went cold with shock . |
| 17 | It was there that they bumped into some friends of Alexander 's , a couple with two young children of their own , and spent an hour chatting with them round the café table . |