Example sentences of "it was [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was along this thread of a path that Mary made up her mind to go . |
| 2 | As he walked away from the house , Mark had remembered that it was along this street , with its brightly — almost garishly — painted houses that Sophia had once seen a cluster of what she took to be exotic tropical fruits in one of the windows , only to realise that they were tomatoes put there to ripen . |
| 3 | It was along this path that the labour movement , and within a narrower framework , nationalist movements , developed in the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | It was , it was James and the Giant , it was about this boy being ill-treated by these two old ladies that were looking after James . |
| 5 | If we ask what it was about this society which made Pound and also Lewis affront it more or less deliberately , to ensure that its doors were closed to them , I think only one answer is possible : it was ineradicably vowed to the idea of the artist as the amateur . |
| 6 | It was about this time that Vivienne began to get really evangelistic about it all . |
| 7 | It was about this time that their grandmother died of a sudden heart attack . |
| 8 | It was about this time that the power struggle between King Charles I and parliament began to escalate . |
| 9 | There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter . |
| 10 | It was about this time that Endill began hearing footsteps echoing around the corridors of Nightside . |
| 11 | It was about this time that the meal ended . |
| 12 | It was about this time that I received a letter from Dr Liu Shih-Shun , Chinese Ambassador in Ottawa , who informed me that , with the imminent cessation of hostilities in Asia , the Chinese government would move back from the wartime capital of Chungking to the south central city of Nanking . |
| 13 | It was about this time that Scott found out that Charles Barry junior had distributed a paper to MPs pressing his own claim to the Foreign Office . |
| 14 | It was about this time that Elizabeth 's growing reputation began to attract the envy and malice of reviewers . |
| 15 | Whiteley , C.O. of 69 Squadron , recalled : ‘ It was about this time that we were stood by to intercept transport aircraft proceeding from Italy to North Africa . |
| 16 | It was about this time that Wordsworth met Coleridge ( 1772–1834 ) , whom we are considering in this chapter as an important English philosopher rather than as a poet . |
| 17 | It was about this time that he started telling Lewis Wyvis Hall would be his one day . |
| 18 | I think it was about this time ( I ca n't tell exactly because my diary makes no reference at any point to the practice ) that I discovered purging . |
| 19 | For Richard this was the year when he came to man 5 estate , for it was about this time that Louis VII knighted him . |
| 20 | It was about this time , however , that friends began to notice a change in his physiognomy : he was much more hunched , leaning forward as he stood ; his face was paler , and the lines more accentuated . |
| 21 | It was about this time that I committed a faux pas which my contemporaries never let me forget . |
| 22 | It was about this time she began seeing more and more of Laurence Wheldon … |
| 23 | It was about this time that he started to court Sylvestre , and in the year 1583 she agreed to marry him . |
| 24 | It was about this time that Fred McKinley was invited to apply for membership . |
| 25 | It was about this time that Wynne made her first contact with Lars Carstensen and links were forged with Carita House , who have supplied so much of our equipment and clothing over the past 25 years . |
| 26 | It was through this work that I came to hear of the case of Dr Ron Carrington , a 35-year-old psychiatrist . |
| 27 | It was through this hedge that the naive teenager was dragged unconscious , beaten some more , and brutally raped on the tidy lawn of a smart bungalow . |
| 28 | It was through this involvement and my direct experience of lesbian oppression that I found myself wanting to be a part of creating a new lesbian feminist identity along with other lesbian sisters . |
| 29 | At all events , it was through this channel that in early November he engineered a meeting with Wagner . |
| 30 | It was through this cautio alone that a legal relationship was established between the legatee and the intended beneficiary of the purpose . |