Example sentences of "that it was [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It was decorated with purple tulips , and it was hardly ever used , for Mrs Maugham was not unaware that it was something of an anachronism . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | He explained that it was something like new party policy on homelessness and would involve a march into town piling up lots of boxes and collecting signatures on a Valentine type partition to give to Hugh . |
4 | He retorted that it was nothing to the risk he had taken . |
5 | ‘ There is no doubt that it was you in charge when the hoax call was made . |
6 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | All through Saturday , she worked on it , telling herself that it was none of her business . |
9 | She continued to look extremely doubtful even when Peregrine told the bystanders that it was none of our damn business what happened in Eastern Europe . |
10 | They simply , and it seems correctly , decided that it was none of their business . |
11 | Nevertheless , he also clearly implied that it was none of the legate 's business . |
12 | She could have suggested that it was none of his business , or have made an excuse that she 'd forgotten to put it on , but , wits scattered , with her usual honesty she blurted out the exact truth . |