Example sentences of "[adv] that it was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that it was it was generally thought of as being a fair system ? |
| 2 | Did they remember much detail about it , or merely that it was there ? |
| 3 | ‘ Then you knew all along that it was her , ’ she said accusingly . |
| 4 | I do not mean , of course , that it was something that can not be explained yet , but rather that it was something of which no explanation can conceivably be found . |
| 5 | A MAN who swapped his beloved BMW for sex with his wife said yesterday that it was her idea . |
| 6 | I feel more that it was her father . |
| 7 | Penny knew at once that it was her lost budgerigar . |
| 8 | He could see from her face that that really hurt , and also that it was something she had n't been able to work out satisfactorily for herself . |
| 9 | However , it made clear that it tried to keep the duration of such layoffs to a minimum , and suggested also that it was its industrial , not its secretarial/office staff , who were most likely to be affected by them ( interview with Manpower ) . |
| 10 | This is confused : it was Robert who went on pilgrimage to Jerusalem , dying on the return journey in 1035 , and Ralph Glaber says clearly that it was he who married and divorced Estrith . |
| 11 | And erm and she kept doing this for ages and erm she was , she was sta starting to get worried because people might believe , find out that it was her and so after she killed a cow , she took out all of i , all it 's insides and hid in it and no one ever found her ! |
| 12 | Doreen , a nineteen-year-old mother of three young children , felt strongly about this after her experiences , and correctly points out that it was her own choice to have her children , and she should be given the same respect as any older mother : |
| 13 | When I read Mark 's letter and found out that it was you … ’ |
| 14 | He told her things she had not known about him — good things , acts of generosity — it came out that it was he who had got Simon on to my pictures , the Douanier and the Gris ; he had practically given them to him . |
| 15 | I know now that it was him . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I caught a glimpse of your dress as you crept away , but I was n't sure until just now that it was you . ’ |
| 17 | To that she would reply simply that it was what ‘ I ought to do . ’ |
| 18 | She felt as she lay there that it was she who had done wrong . |
| 19 | Another English spring has damply arrived , and the English have begun another cricket season , reminding themselves yet again that it was they who created the world 's most civilised form of sport . |