Example sentences of "it was that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sharpe had taken a royal fortune off the battlefield , and it was that fortune which Jane had stolen from him , and much of which she had already spent on a London house and on silks and on furniture and on jewels and on Lord John 's debts , and on silverware and gold plate and Chinese wallpaper and on lapdogs and satin and on the cabriolet in which Lord John now rode towards the cavalry and battle . |
| 32 | But my opinion of the book is much the same now as it was that day in Kathmandu . |
| 33 | At one stage he turned to the Home Secretary , sitting beside hint , and said : ‘ It was that day , was it not ? ’ |
| 34 | ‘ Well , we 're just going out to have one , ’ said Penelope , thinking how typical it was that Ianthe should long for such a dull and essentially English thing as a cup of tea . |
| 35 | It was that liability for which the original lessee was concurrently liable . |
| 36 | Kids watched it in their millions every week because it was that rarity : an adult show which listened to their viewpoint . |
| 37 | It was that angel put me right . |
| 38 | It was that speculation and accompanying doubts about the ability of the private practitioner to meet this need which led to the rapid growth of interest in alternative means of providing legal advice . |
| 39 | It was that sense which had brought me to Munding , which had set me hunting the Green Man in the woods . |
| 40 | ( And it was that lack of hits which probably helped bring about the suicides . ) |
| 41 | And thus it was that glamour had arrived for our heroine . |
| 42 | It was that night that Fenna had taught her to fly . |
| 43 | It was never locked before 9 P.M. It was that night . |
| 44 | He was his own father down there and it was that night again when Francis said to me , ‘ Do n't go , ’ and this time I had n't . |
| 45 | I do n't know of any boxing match that 's ever captured the interest of people and it was that night , course we never heard the result , not until we got to Egypt , you there was no wireless you see , you did n't know what was happening at all . |
| 46 | So it was that night at Hampton Court . |
| 47 | ‘ If you 're — uh — gay , as they insist on calling it these days , then I 'll just have to accept it , but I shall always blame myself , always wonder where I went wrong with you , wonder whether it was that school I sent you to , I was never sure if it was a mistake or ’ |
| 48 | It was that money that she used to pay the mortgage . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | So he ought , thought Sally-Anne , and so he is , and , desperate to change the conversation , to steer it away from dangerous ground , she said , as brightly as she could , through numb lips , ‘ Sha n't we miss the last horse bus home if we do n't leave soon ? ’ thinking how fortunate it was that Stair had not told Dr Neil the other heiress 's identity — Sally-Anne Tunstall might have been a dead give-away ; she really ought to have changed her Christian name . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | it was that bit of |
| 53 | It was that cabbage . |
| 54 | I strained to hear if it was a record but it was that tune , broken in his usual stumbling places . |
| 55 | It was that experience , allied to his next job as arts minister , that made him an obvious choice to become Major 's first Heritage Secretary . |
| 56 | It was that experience , in recollection , which most closely reflected her present state . |
| 57 | It was that Southeast Asia was ‘ the target of a co-ordinated offensive plainly directed by the Kremlin ’ . |
| 58 | Now I can see that I was wrong to assume that mere dedication to a craft ineluctably results in fine work , but it was that conviction which drove me to put Jean-Claude and his work on the map . |
| 59 | However , to get him to the point where he might be weaned from the ventilator , one must allow him to sleep and get stronger , so if it was that kind of day or that kind of period , he might have more sedation than other times . |
| 60 | Men of the standing of Peter Elliott were relegated to B races — it was that kind of night . |