Example sentences of "[adv] it [was/were] that [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Or perhaps it was that recollection , however poignant , was better than emptiness . |
2 | Perhaps it was that paradox — more than any other aspect of its nature — which would finally undo it . |
3 | ‘ Perhaps it was that bump we went over , ’ said Bob hesitantly . |
4 | Who was attacking it ? perhaps it was that letter from that bastard up in town . |
5 | So it was that night at Hampton Court . |
6 | And thus it was that glamour had arrived for our heroine . |
7 | Thus it was that Rincewind , hurrying through the crowded , flare-lit evening bazaars of Morpork with the Luggage trundling behind him , jostled a tall dark figure , turned to deliver a few suitable curses , and beheld Death . |
8 | Thus it was that youth unemployment brought about , or at the very least greatly hastened , ‘ the new FE ’ , and with it the spread of courses for students with moderate learning difficulties . |
9 | It was never locked before 9 P.M. It was that night . |
10 | well it was that area , our mother used to go fetch her she us she came into our yard two or three times but I know |
11 | Well it was that shop . |
12 | The book represents an attempt to explain the series of unexpected corporate failures over the past few years and why it was that company accounts do not appear to have given adequate warning of what was to happen . |
13 | Oh hell , she said to herself and glared morosely at the scene before her , wondering why it was that while , in grief , she could still enjoy a good book or , say , a well-grilled sole , she could take no pleasure in a beautiful landscape . |
14 | He reiterated , with immense care and deliberation , why it was that Sien had come to mean so much to him . |