Example sentences of "that [vb past] it [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wretched state to which the company has been brought is nevertheless a tragedy , a tragedy for all the towns in America and across the world where IBM was until recently the biggest employer , a tragedy for all its surviving employees , who now have to operate in an environment pervaded with gloom and a sense of failure , a tragedy for all the data processing managers that made it their business to know all that could be known about the company and its products and culture , who now find their hard-earned knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset . |
| 2 | It was the ‘ small ’ things at Uppark that Meg saved and cherished that made it what it so uniquely was — the chair covers , the blankets Prinny pulled up to the portly royal chin , the original wallpapers in the attics where this quiet , remarkable woman worked to such effect . |
| 3 | And the scope of that work I had enrolled all the the lady workers both on the confectionery side and the dispatch side and that made it what you would term as a closed shop . |
| 4 | No er the the people that owned it you know . |
| 5 | Its future depends on a different kind of alliance with the class that created it who wo n't for much longer be reduced to the status of clients dependent on the whim of their political godfathers . |
| 6 | A fully secularized society was a contradiction in terms , for there could be no society that would not feel the need to uphold the collective sentiments that gave it its unity and individuality . |
| 7 | It was both horrible and necessary , if only to prevent the spread of the disease throughout the Domain ; but it was just that — the horrible necessity of death — that gave it its fascination . |
| 8 | Each dust particle inherits the characteristic defect structure of the parent clay that did the damming , the structure that gave it its damming properties . |
| 9 | I think can I just say one thing we did actually h it was n't community industry erm the people that did it I do n't know |
| 10 | And we 're going to find the person that did it you know cos last it was no , no smoking in the toilets and then there 's no smoking dope in the toilets |