Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was rather indifferently that he described to her his walk , his find , his leading of the police to the spot . |
| 2 | That was presumably then that we think Lawrence was there , it 's flat , we think his wife 's there . |
| 3 | It was so seldom that Aggie heard herself addressed by her surname that she turned and looked at the nun , but the woman 's eyelids were lowered as if in shame ; then she inclined her head towards the woman sitting behind the desk before turning and closing the door quietly behind her . |
| 4 | He did n't turn his head to look after them and he was so still that even at a short distance they could no longer distinguish him from his surroundings . |
| 5 | Winter sweet , viburnum , and witch hazel were all in flower ; the air was so still that they could hear the distant gurgle of the river from down in the valley . |
| 6 | This was so notwithstanding that the field could be closed at any time and that certain people could be refused admission . |
| 7 | One , Sir Joseph Robinson , who had been convicted for fraudulent share-dealing in South Africa , was sufficiently so that the Chief Whip , F. E. Guest , was charged with calling on him in his suite at the Savoy Hotel and telling him that he had no alternative but to withdraw from the list even though his name had already been published . |
| 8 | I was thinking when Daniel was down here that erm Paul you know and all his girlfriends , various girlfriends , for a long time now and I said something to Daniel well you know are you sort of courting yet ? |
| 9 | It was down there that someone tried to kill me . ’ |
| 10 | It was only later that I discovered Ghatak was not only a director , but also , in his own , idiosyncratic way , a teacher and theorist of cinema . |
| 11 | It was only later that the aesthetic dimension of literary study became emphasized , with an accompanying concentration on the fictional genres . |
| 12 | It was only later that the significance of the surrendering of providing powers in 1930 became fully apparent to the District . |
| 13 | It was only later that the fate of the missing aircraft became known . |
| 14 | It was only later that they discovered that the mysterious column , which in the heat haze had looked like twenty-five Lancia trucks , had in fact been Timpson 's patrol . |
| 15 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
| 16 | It was only later that he realized he had destroyed a Max Ernst . |
| 17 | It was only later that I dared to approach the nurse who did the dispensing and whisper in her ear that I knew nothing of Bach Remedies and would she please enlighten me . |
| 18 | It was only later that the theory was refined to include anti neutrinos , when , for consistency with the conservation laws , the name ‘ antineutrino ’ was given to the variety produced by neutron decay . |
| 19 | It was only later that he found out that nearly everyone suffers from the same delusion in one form or another ; at the time he was convinced that it was his own personal idiosyncrasy . |
| 20 | It was only later that he described the mistake as ‘ terminal ’ , but he knew originally that it was serious . |
| 21 | It was only later that the company came to acquire a social and political direction ; in its inception it was an ‘ expedient solution to a technical problem ’ . |
| 22 | It was only later that I realized that the tears were caused by rage and not by sadness . |
| 23 | In fact Dewey had left unassigned the section 539 , in the physics schedules , allowing , very fortunately , for future developments , and it was only later that the new subjects received their allotted positions in subsequent editions of the scheme . |
| 24 | After all , it was only later that Rob had become serious about Heather . |
| 25 | Tracey had at first pretended not to mind her joining the group ; it was only later that his real bitterness about it emerged . |
| 26 | It was only later that Trivers began to link it up with Darwin . |
| 27 | Added Det Con Roberts : ‘ It was only later that the lady realised that her purse , containing around £220 in cash , had been taken . ’ |
| 28 | It was only later that she switched to the Laban Centre and started dance training . |
| 29 | It was only later that I learned , quite by chance , that she was Janet Bloomfield , author of The Fallen Land , the recent prize-winning novel based on the tragedy of the collapse of the Paisley Close ( ‘ Heave awa ’ , lads ’ ) tenement in Edinburgh in 1862 . |
| 30 | It was only rarely that women were able to occupy ( outside the home ) any position of authority . |