Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feel was ‘ Get to Manchester and get signed ’ although it rarely worked that way . |
| 2 | And occasionally , as now , it so happened that duty and pleasure would fall together in a sweet coincidence ; and from Parson 's Pleasure , after dutifully forbidding Lewis to linger more than a couple of hours or so , Morse himself departed . |
| 3 | It merely seemed that way yesterday . |
| 4 | week or so , it just got that bit |
| 5 | Oh it just happened that way . |
| 6 | it just happened that way you know the twentieth of November and there 's the nineteenth of February |
| 7 | It soon emerged that performance was high on Ashton 's list of priorities as indicated by his having taken a series of lessons in Formula Fords at Brand 's Hatch . |
| 8 | It further reported that membership was over 100 and when it reached 150 , subscriptions would be increased . |
| 9 | It still had that ownership because under a hire purchase agreement property does not pass until the customer has paid all his instalments ( see paragraph 1–14 and Chapter 17 ) . |
| 10 | It also revealed that Third-World countries spent about US$16,000 million on acquiring new arms in 1989 — less than in any year since 1976 . |
| 11 | It also accepted that part of AEA would need to remain in the public sector . |
| 12 | It also acknowledged that democracy is easier to declare than to achieve , and stressed the importance of effective education and information systems in the country . |
| 13 | It also emerged that Deputy Foreign Minister Zhou Nan , a formidable hardliner , was to replace Xu Jiatun as head of the New China News Agency ( Xinhua ) in Hong Kong ( China 's unofficial ambassador to the territory ) . |
| 14 | Although it sought to make schools accessible , it also held that attendance at them should be voluntary , that pupils should pay for the instruction they received , that public education should be developed gradually rather than immediately , and that , although schools would still be run by different agencies , societies and private individuals , they should teach the same things and be managed identically . |
| 15 | It also stated that democratization required the guaranteed promotion and participation of civilian society in general in the drafting , implementation and evaluation of government policies at the different administrative levels . |
| 16 | He thought he 'd once heard someone saying that about her , but it now seemed that reason was n't the right one : the beach was hardly the place to catch a glimpse of Dr Greenslade , with his black bag and his stethoscope , which he sometimes wore round his neck on the street . |
| 17 | It now seemed that Rose could n't even bear to touch him . |
| 18 | On Nov. 7 the newly elected Moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church , Pieter Potgieter , confessed his church 's guilt at the role it had played in establishing apartheid and said that it now considered that policy to be wrong . |
| 19 | During the first decade it seems , on average , to have run below £200,000 , although it sometimes exceeded that figure . |
| 20 | He is , in fact , a rare surviving embodiment of those long-vanished ideals of the 1950s , when it briefly seemed that University English might provide a terrain where all these practices could converge . |
| 21 | It certainly looked that way . |
| 22 | But it certainly seemed that way . |
| 23 | It certainly seemed that way to me . |
| 24 | It subsequently emerged that part of the list had been drawn up by Wilson 's private secretary , Lady Falkender ( plain Marcia Williams until ennobled in another honours spree ) , on a sheet of lavender writing paper . |
| 25 | I can see that people must have thought we were being very mysterious then , that we were a bit of a mystery , that The Bar was a very strange place ; but it never seemed that way to us . |