Example sentences of "[be] that he [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing about Tim is that he came to us with a experience of a polishing shop so he was very well placed to help us improve our spiriting-out technique that is so necessary on a fine shellac finish . |
| 2 | The other thing is that he asked for his family . |
| 3 | The trouble was that he got under her skin . |
| 4 | What she did know was that he lived with his mother and two brothers , and that after the war he would go back to work in an insurance office . |
| 5 | If , for example , a man was known as ‘ Father of James ’ the probability was that he lived with his wife 's people and dutifully avoided his mother-in-law in the appointed manner . |
| 6 | The strange thing was that he spoke to everybody with a different accent . |