Example sentences of "[adv] it was that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was that that made the soldier lower his rifle , out of a sense of pity . |
| 2 | Or perhaps it was that he had not wanted to turn Bertha 's disappointment with her daughters into bitterness by seeing him show too much interest in his son . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was that he was talking about now . |
| 4 | And so it was that Ursula met Justin , the writer 's moody adolescent brother , and ran away with him . |
| 5 | So it was that the Cohens ' life was very largely circumscribed by the Montreal riding , which had as its most prestigious centre Westmount , where they lived . |
| 6 | So it was that a bold , if boyish , hand completed the form ; but not over carefully ! |
| 7 | So it was that they went on to do other things , but separately ; a ‘ beautiful ’ working relationship was thereby broken up , and two highly creative thinkers had their play-writing ambitions stillborn . |
| 8 | So it was that the agreement on which the first National Government was formed was ignored by the King , who granted a dissolution under conditions which broke both the letter and the spirit of the agreement . |
| 9 | So it was that the eight of us ended up , kit gleaming in the spring sunshine , awaiting the arrival of the man who would diagnose our ills , administer a local anaesthetic and set us on the road to perfect health . |
| 10 | And so it was that on the first Monday after New Year , about midnight , we found ourselves on an icy road in County Cavan heading for the checkpoint , having just driven up from Dun Laoghaire , where we had disembarked from the Holyhead ferry . |
| 11 | So it was that every time I went to see her , she would run forward and stand , head on one side , looking like a little robin , waiting for her kiss . |
| 12 | So it was that a generation of highly educated women occupied their minds with Bowlby and Spock and The Joy Of Cooking and little else . |
| 13 | So it was that during a week long break from filming Neighbours in October 1987 Kylie boarded an airliner and left the sweltering sunshine of Melbourne for the cold and rain of an English autumn . |
| 14 | While waiting for Mr Knightley to arrive , the rest of us were invited to tour the grounds , and so it was that I and about ten others led off to the banks of the River Avon by a ruthlessly hearty philanthropist extraordinaire , Lady Patricia Rutherford . |
| 15 | And so it was that Osman Abdelal took me from the gas station and up to a small Arab village called Mazraa , clustered round the ruins of an old Roman aqueduct . |
| 16 | And so it was that Luch was taken up to the castle for the second time . |
| 17 | So it was that in indicating my reasons for preferring the West Country for my motoring , instead of leaving it at mentioning several of the alluring details as conveyed by Mrs Symons 's volume , I made the error of declaring that a former housekeeper of Darlington Hall was resident in that region . |
| 18 | So it was that R. Kuhn , in Switzerland , administered compounds which had been prepared in the laboratories of J. R. Geigy S. A. to patients who were withdrawn , inactive , and depressed . |
| 19 | So it was that Huddersfield became the first club to win the Cup with a penalty . |
| 20 | And so it was that Gladstone Murray , Ernie L. Bushnell and four others , including myself , staggered through the winter blizzard at just after 10 o'clock that evening and through the C.P.R. station to Eastbound Track No1 . |
| 21 | So it was that on a golden autumn evening , towards mid-September of 1937 , I came to write my -30- to a career of journalism cum radio , and sat watching the flatness of the prairies give way to rising foothills as the twin-engined CPR ‘ Dominion ’ crawled westward up the slopes of the mountain . |
| 22 | So it was that at 18 , from 1778–9 , William went to ‘ Lancashire-north-of-the-Sands ’ , and he loved it . |
| 23 | So it was that Henry Smith , who during his lifetime had been famous for avoiding any kind of malicious gossip and for his ability to reconcile opposing factions , was , after his death , at the centre of an international controversy . |
| 24 | And so it was that Mary had managed to borrow one of the most expensive ‘ sparklers ’ the Gorbals had ever seen . |
| 25 | So it was that Ms Wainwright found herself manhandling ( if that 's the word ) the seven-by-four polystyrene boards across the frozen Alaskan wastes , often in the teeth of gale force winds and in temperatures down to -40°C . |
| 26 | And so it was that plans went ahead . |
| 27 | So it was that in our context ‘ the Holy Spirit said , ‘ set apart for me ’ some sixteen dear brothers and sisters ‘ for the work to which I have called them . ’ |
| 28 | So it was that the two embarked upon a strange relationship . |
| 29 | So it was that when I was asked to contribute an account of Elizabeth Taylor 's novels to a book of reference I remembered these words and wrote that her motive power was Love : ‘ Not the love that is a four-letter word , nor yet anything so theoretical as Christian charity , but most certainly a great virtue . ’ |
| 30 | So it was that in death Simon Cormack returned to Oxford , to the Radcliffe Infirmary , whose facilities are a match even for Guy 's Hospital , London . |