Example sentences of "[pron] that it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She instantly strode across the shop and took a book from among thousands and assured me that it contained all I would ever need to know about cooking for ever . |
| 2 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 3 | Orion informs me that it sold 60,000 of the revamped hardback , at £3.99 a copy , even before transmission had started . |
| 4 | So , I told them that it had new blades on but they wanted it really tight , and they wanted tightening up and that so yeah . |
| 5 | Under the auspices of Scottish/Canadian editor Andy Gray , the paper was faced with a dilemma and one that it had great difficulty resolving , namely how a paper still steeped in show business traditions could come to terms with a new music that was deliberately and defiantly anti-commerciality and the supposed ‘ circus ’ of the pop world . |
| 6 | It struck him that it seemed weird that Leeds rejected continuous bids from Blackburn all through the season and then suddenly , out of the blue , accepted one . |
| 7 | He learned to use his charm , and ‘ it became ’ , his biographer says , ‘ so strong a factor in him that it resembled great beauty in a woman ’ . |
| 8 | She could tell by the feel of it that it had some papers inside , but she did not look at them . |