Example sentences of "that it was [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They both have trades that are drastically needed and felt that it was something they could offer to help these children , ’ explained Mark 's girlfriend , Sarah Howe . |
| 2 | About six months ago , we mutually decided that it was something we could do without . |
| 3 | But it started to make me feel scared that it was something I was going to have to bring up for the rest of my life . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But it had never struck me that it was something he would notice . |
| 6 | Then he 'd realized that it was no-one he would recognize . |
| 7 | People forget that it was they who freed the country from Pol Pot , otherwise many more would have died than the one million who were starved , tortured , and executed between 1975-78 . |
| 8 | I remember Geoff telling me this , tears streaming down his face , marvelling at how it was his children who had the strength to carry on , and that it was they who had this practical , yet profound way of reaching to the heart of the matter . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He was afraid — and I think now he was right to be — that it was what they were really after . ’ |
| 14 | Helpless in the grip of emotions that refused to be denied , she finally admitted to herself that it was what she wanted ; what she had wanted since he had kissed her , oh , so gently , in the kitchen . |
| 15 | She looked around at the other people in the water , and when she saw Matthew , brown and sinewy , poised on the board for a swift controlled racing dive , she admitted to herself that it was him she was searching for . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | He had been given a lesson from a great player and it was obvious that it was one he would never forget . ’ |
| 18 | ’ Chert — did you tell anyone that it was me who got you involved with Ardakke ? ’ |
| 19 | However , you need to be able to establish and prove that it was you who created the copyright . |
| 20 | ‘ Rory , ’ Kenneth said , sitting forward and lowering his voice to conspiratorial levels , ‘ the last secret I remember you telling me was that it was you who set fire to that barn on the Urvill 's estate . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I understand that it was you who found your brother 's body ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | How very arrogant you are , Feargal , and might I remind you that it was you who sought me out , not the other way round ? ’ |
| 24 | Especially when they are tipped that it was you who topped him . ’ |
| 25 | Because the the nettle I 'm grasping is this ah it is said by the , both of them , that it was you who had what they call a long barrelled gun , it must be a shotgun . |
| 26 | I could n't bear the thought that it was you he loved . |
| 27 | You have admitted that it was I who caused all the evidence to fall into a pattern . |
| 28 | I distinctly said that it was I who required the tuition . |
| 29 | After my fourth or fifth lesson I was able to see that it was I who was causing myself the discomfort . |
| 30 | I did not remind him that it was I who had replaced the newspaper with mended panes and the sacking with curtains . |