Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps it followed from that carefully nurtured tradition of political and religious toleration which was seen even by foreigners as a distinctively English achievement in the era of parliamentary government . |
| 2 | ‘ And so it came about that all over the land children were assembled in groups of 40 and made to learn the facts set out in the books written by Messrs Hall & Stevens , Warner & Martin , Durrell & Palmer , and Potter and Ridout . |
| 3 | So it goes like that |
| 4 | So it started in that kind of fashion really . |
| 5 | Thus it came about that sealed bids were invited , to be opened by the treasurer at 1 pm. the first day of the Sale . |
| 6 | Against such threats the ego has many defences , such as denial , distortion , forgetting , intellectualization , projection and so on ; and thus it comes about that , in the not uncommon tendency to confuse the theory with the fact of what is repressed , psychoanalysis itself is seen as a threat to the very process of repression which it was the first to discover and is itself subjected to these defensive reactions . |
| 7 | I think there 's a pride that , that the majority of firemen are , are fairly clean and smart erm there are the odd ones that have to be told but it 's not the same sort of discipline now as there was , and I 'm not sure whether it 's right or wrong , all I see I , I enjoy the discipline when I had it , I sometimes wish it was brought back but er it 's not the time now it seems for that type of discipline , so I think they manage well but er I would like to see a little more but perhaps I 'm a bit old fashioned . |
| 8 | Well it says in that , in that thing I 've got they 're gon na restore a fair system of grants |
| 9 | oh , well it goes like that |
| 10 | Well it seems like that 's hoping for pie in the sky , though , because there 's first of all not enough money , and I do n't think that teachers are that good at well talking about their own emotions , and I asked the Oxfordshire County Council Education Department to send someone along to this programme , and they said ‘ I 'm sorry , there 's no-one to send ’ . |
| 11 | Had n't it occurred to that burke of a husband that the whole thing could be a put-up job to get his wife over to Ireland ? |
| 12 | I said it does n't it work like that Lee ! |
| 13 | The bid that we put in for erm looking at I mean would n't it would n't it come into that to a certain extent . |
| 14 | Why would n't it come through that little housing ? |
| 15 | I asked about discipline , wondering how it compared with that at the central Scotland school where I taught . |
| 16 | Now could you tell us about how it came about that you moved to ? |
| 17 | Can you give some idea of how it came about that you in fact decided strike ? |
| 18 | Remember how it looked on that first X-ray ? ’ |
| 19 | That 's how it come about that Joyce thinks |
| 20 | Perhaps this observation begins to afford a clue to how it comes about that observable quantities can be associated with certain operators . |
| 21 | and then it goes like that on each side , what does that mean ? |
| 22 | cos like , they have to do it , and then they pass it on , and then it goes like that . |
| 23 | Yeah but , before i , it ended there it ended before that did n't it ? |
| 24 | Not when it came to that . |
| 25 | So then er er one morning the there was a very heavy swell on and the anchor must have given way and it w we saw the mine floating away towards Tiree so where it went after that we never heard . |
| 26 | She 's over an inch less where it counts for that dress . ’ |
| 27 | Is that why it goes like that ? |
| 28 | He had no hesitation , he said , in accepting the evidence of Mr. Tucker wherever it conflicted with that of Mr. O'Brien . |
| 29 | One of you dies , the remaining one still owns all the property cos he or she always has done so and therefore it belongs to that person . |