Example sentences of "and it was [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Yet his criticism of false miracles undermined the foundations of popular belief and it was to him that the future heretic Blanco White acknowledged his debt . |
2 | Since then they had come into contact over one or two smaller matters , and it was to him that Greg naturally went in the aftermath of Hilda Machin 's death . |
3 | On the whole , it was the left wing that was the more creative and influential , and it was to it that some of the men we must now mention belonged . |
4 | I wonder what it 'd be like if the phone suddenly rung and it was for me . |
5 | Discipline was rigid and we respected it , but resented it too , because of a particular juvenile arrogance that must have been founded on the knowledge that the world was changing a lot more than they realised , and it was for us that it was changing . |
6 | Most of my Eton contemporaries at Oxford were at Christ Church , Trinity , Balliol or New College , and it was with them I spent much of my time . |
7 | After the war a man called Alec Howson in Barnard Castle ran the trips and it was with him that we went to Loch Lomond . |
8 | A tilt to the left and it had taken his wing and was driving him back down to the ground ; correction to the right and it was at him that way , turning him round and out of control . |
9 | As he opened his eyes and smiled at her strangely , she added , ‘ And it was worth it in the end . |
10 | He also taught us music and it was through him that I learned of its expressive nature . |
11 | Innocent certainly knew the position of Monaco and it was through him probably that the pope made known his conditions for the acceptance of Otto . |
12 | The MRC contained radical SR members but was dominated by Bolsheviks and it was through it that the October uprising was planned . |
13 | And it was in me thoughts that I bred a bunch of punch-drunk pansies who could n't use their heads or , for that matter , any other part of their make-up , 'cept their fists . |