Example sentences of "[pron] it was that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Same question , I just wondered who it was that was all . |
| 2 | See , I told you it was that , you know it 's |
| 3 | Whoever it was that was menacing her with letters ( a letter , she corrected herself , but feeling certain there would be more ) , whoever it was that had anything to do with her mother 's death , that person , or those persons , would belong to her father 's age group . |
| 4 | But if there was one thing the past weeks had taught her it was that work was an antidote to worry . |
| 5 | Do we not have to include there having been no general power failure in South-east England , and the absence of an earth tremor that would have shifted whatever it was that first ignited , and the earth 's not being destroyed by a nuclear explosion ? |
| 6 | There was nothing the big , anxious woman could do to investigate the matter further and although she played the beam of the torch on every inch visible to her , she could n't see whatever it was that might have made her daughter scream other than the damp and secret darkness of the place . |
| 7 | Soft answer , she felt , might turn away wrath — whatever it was that was making her mother grumpy . |
| 8 | First to be built was a concrete block-house , reinforced with metal struts , which it soon became apparent was a large pill-box to protect whatever it was that was going to go up . |
| 9 | And , whatever it was that drahá meant , she liked that too . |
| 10 | T. Behrens is considerably baffled by this strange case , by the question of what it was that determined Ursula 's adherence to this programme , and of what it was that caused her to bring to an end her loving friendship with Justin . |
| 11 | For it turned out that Pound 's poetry — The Cantos certainly but much of the earlier work also — could be understood and enjoyed only by those who had attended to Pound s criticism enough to grasp what it was that Pound was trying to do , or conceived himself to be doing , in his poetry . |
| 12 | He wondered what it was that could be upsetting them . |
| 13 | I could not think what it was that could be for me and yet so heavy . |
| 14 | ‘ I went on down the corridor to see my grandfather , wondering what it was that would take half an hour . |
| 15 | It was only when he started automatically to strip it that he realized what it was that was so different . |
| 16 | It is important to grasp what it was that peace activists thought they were trying to prevent . |
| 17 | During the course of the war it had been the privilege of Fleet Street and , to an even greater extent , the BBC to proclaim what it was that ordinary men and women felt about certain issues . |
| 18 | I wondered what it was that could come between a husband and wife when their child killed herself away from home and in circumstances for which they could not hold themselves in any way responsible . |
| 19 | Perhaps because she had not previously been living in London , Moira observed precisely what it was that dozens of well-bred young ladies were enthusing over ; the long pin-tucked nightdresses , which no one else was making , to wear as day or evening dresses . |
| 20 | In view of the terms in which he was later to express his enthusiasm for Wagner , it is interesting to note what it was that first seriously attracted him : nor the morbid metaphysical-flavoured world of romance , the hypnotic emotional intensity and musical " modernity " of Tristan , representing at the time , the high point of Wagner 's most distinctive line of development ; nor indeed the available parts of the similarly " modern " , but emotionally more robust , Ring ; rather , the musically " reactionary " Meistersinger that deferred to traditional expectations of harmony , tonality and musical organization and depicted through the medium of " healthy " comic opera the successful struggle of artistic genius against stifling Hanslickian convention . |
| 21 | Well , if I knew that , Mr Barnes , I 'd know what it was that was n't right that day , would n't I ? ’ |
| 22 | He touched them wonderingly , without fear , speculating on what it was that was different . |
| 23 | And it 's , it 's difficult for us to tell because we do n't have that many regional studies to be able to know exactly what it was that was determining these differences of values . |
| 24 | my personal view was that we , we should have some form of , two things , one is communicating the realities of the situation , it 's a fairly new market , there was a lot of competitors in the market , coming into the market , there was a lot of confusion in the market there was a lot of confusion in the market as to exactly what it was that customer could buy , there was also a lot of confusion of as to , cos there are different types of customer , and over sixty five , there are about seven different categories , there was a need for someone and I believe it should therefore have been the market leader at that time to if you want to establish principals , establish what they , this was in the market and establish what the elderly would be , would , should look for when purchasing a retirement apartment . |
| 25 | This is where Alan Davies came in , and if the latest coach 's previous career with England B , the Midlands and Nottingham had proved anything it was that pragmatism — what you have to do — comes before even the noblest notion of what you would like to do . |