Example sentences of "that it was our " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten years ago I remember I used to think that it was our mental hospitals which later generations would regard as the most staggering and incomprehensible blind spot of our time , on which they would look back as we do upon the generations which burnt witches or tried by ordeal . |
| 2 | And it 's very probable , at that age , that it was our family who told us , or implied ( or maybe even talked about us to neighbours — ‘ She 's chubby already , I 'm worried about her , weight problems run in our family ’ , or ‘ She gets her looks from her dad' ) whether we were pretty or not , and formed the basis of our self-image . |
| 3 | To Macaulay , the ‘ highest eulogy which [ could ] be pronounced on the revolution of 1688 [ was ] this , that it was our last revolution ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ The Khatun observed that you would miss your wife , and suggested that it was our duty to find you another . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Although those problems were resolved , and gradually we got the level of performance , we recognised that it was our customers ' perception of the service , rather than our own , which mattered . |
| 6 | Everything seemed to indicate that it was our friend Argol , or some flunkey of his . |
| 7 | All I know is that it was our biggest stroke of luck this season . ’ |