Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It comes with its own good reviews in the form of sleevenotes which make amusingly extravagant claims , including that it is a record about ‘ how you sometimes feel like the sky will peel away like a mask and reveal something more brilliant behind ’ , which may tell some of you not just a little of how this record sounds , but how it got to sound that way too . |
| 2 | Saying it helped to quell that flicker of excitement . |
| 3 | It seemed to create that relationship , that tension between the audience and the performers which you got in a theatre , in a music-hall , but not usually in a cinema . |
| 4 | True to Bonnie 's prediction it began snowing that night . |
| 5 | When their paths crossed years later at Manchester United , Morgan admits that he ‘ thought the world of The Doc ’ but slowly , bit by bit , it began to emerge that Docherty was mistreating some players and scheming against others . |
| 6 | Instead of rapidly expanding the ranks of the Party , it threatened , in their view , to reduce them ; instead of bridging the gap between a party dominated by members of the intelligentsia and the working masses , it threatened to institutionalize that gap . |
| 7 | When the EC wanted to ratify the Basle convention , it decided to extend that principle to trade by EC members with non-OECD countries . |
| 8 | Thursday dawned bright and blue and it decided to stay that way all day through . |
| 9 | So at least ran the theory , and , for a time , it did operate that way , very much along the lines of the Athenian polis in its democratic phase . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , at the time it did look that way . ’ |
| 11 | It 's a pity it had to happen that way . |
| 12 | Now I think what te , what happened there was we er , we drifted away from setting down sc , er , er , scripts to finding good useful key words and phrases out of the paper that we could then fit into the script , and as it had gone that way , I realised it was working , and did n't see any point in trying to get it back to the way it was originally going , because it was going fine . |
| 13 | A flicker of rebellion stole into her mind and , as if it had needed that impetus , one clear thought struggled free . |
| 14 | He wished it had happened that way . |
| 15 | It is hard to believe that it intended to withhold that protection in all cases where a jury might think that the place in question was not necessary or desirable or where the authorities could not by evidence justify their policies to a jury 's satisfaction . |