Example sentences of "[to-vb] that it was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My lord , I have good reason to know that it was you who said a word for me in his Grace 's ear , and gave me this day for thought , and even offered me arguments I was not wise enough to find for myself . |
| 2 | Furious , he got up to complain to his neighbour , only to discover that it was his own dog which he had accidently shut outside before going to bed . |
| 3 | Everything seemed to indicate that it was our friend Argol , or some flunkey of his . |
| 4 | Eric 's name was not given but it was not difficult to guess that it was him . |
| 5 | After my fourth or fifth lesson I was able to see that it was I who was causing myself the discomfort . |
| 6 | Obviously , it is in a ‘ plugger 's ’ interest to claim that it was his or her work which made a record into a hit , but if you employ a ‘ plugger ’ it is worth being sceptical when deciding what to believe . |
| 7 | ‘ No one , ’ said a judge who had watched Slime , ‘ could ever again look at a pond and fail to remember that it was somebody 's home , ’ |
| 8 | Either way , the word seems to suggest that it was their inability or refusal to suckle which was regarded as characteristic — a supposition exactly in line with my theory that they represent the masculine , aggressive , weaning mothers of early agriculture . |
| 9 | Though he never disguised his leadership ambitions , he continued to deny that it was his intention to challenge the Prime Minister . |
| 10 | Easier to believe that it was hers , and there was something wrong with it . |
| 11 | Lutyens 's family were brought up to believe that it was their father who invented Nanna , and that it was from their own night nursery window in Bloomsbury Square that Wendy and the boys flew with Peter Pan to the Neverland . |
| 12 | She has no reason to believe that it was anything other than an accident . |
| 13 | She has no reason to believe that it was anything other than an accident . |
| 14 | Prince Bernhard had said no such thing , but Sharpe had decided it would be more efficacious to assign the opinion to the prince than to confess that it was his own view . |
| 15 | I was to learn that it was his way of controlling his temper . |
| 16 | She seemed to think that it was her own child and showed signs of distress when Carrie took the baby from her . |
| 17 | Ten years ago I remember I used to think that it was our mental hospitals which later generations would regard as the most staggering and incomprehensible blind spot of our time , on which they would look back as we do upon the generations which burnt witches or tried by ordeal . |
| 18 | But setting her misgivings about Tommaso himself aside , Caterina decided that she had been quite wrong to think that it was she who had caught his attention . |
| 19 | I have to say that it was me , I did that . |
| 20 | The usual instruction was to ‘ provide what is customary ’ , though this attitude led to extreme financial hardship for the poorer classes , though it would not be unreasonable to say that it was they who helped to perpetuate the meaningless and elaborate ritual well into the early decades of the twentieth century . |
| 21 | The 34027 Locomotive Group still retain the prestigious opportunity of being able to say that it was their locomotive which took the first train hauled by a steam locomotive into Waterloo after some 25 years . |
| 22 | I would also have to say that it was he behaviour of the galleries which stands out . |
| 23 | Labour candidate Peter Mandelson urged him to admit that it was his party 's policies which had created mass unemployment in the town . |