Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] that [pers pn] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
| 2 | The only difference was that she understood him now . |
| 3 | The attraction of the concept was that it allowed him to square a number of circles at once . |
| 4 | It has been suggested that the real reason Judas betrayed Jesus was that he wanted him to be a popular Messiah who would drive out the Romans . |
| 5 | The thing that worried Nigel most about his son 's affairs was that they made him feel randy . |
| 6 | All that those LA police offices had to say to get acquitted of beating Rodney King was that they believed he had been using PCP . |
| 7 | Perhaps the most important element in Florey 's brief occupation of the Sheffield chair was that it brought him into close contact with Edward Mellanby ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 8 | It is precisely because he knew who God was that he knew he could trust God in the dark . |
| 9 | There was no laughter now , no mockery , and she went still , wondering how to answer the question , how to explain that the reason was that she loved him . |
| 10 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 11 | The incredible thing was that she guessed he had no idea of the impact he made , or simply did n't care . |