Example sentences of "[be] that [pron] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or , perhaps , it may have been that she had married him . |
| 2 | What it does mean is that he had made it plain that he intended a legal relationship to exist between two persons ( soon to become trustee and beneficiary ) . |
| 3 | ‘ What I was going to tell you is that he had written her a part in one of his plays . |
| 4 | Now all I 'm saying is that he undertook to give us those in forty eight hours . |
| 5 | The problem with the building was that they had made it suicide-proof , so there were no windows you could open on the front . |
| 6 | Er but nobody could tell me for certain what it was that they intended to use it for , er but it was apparently not guaranteed that it would continue to be used er as a market hall . |
| 7 | But the only voice capable of ordering such a release was that which had conjured him , and with Sartori gone he was exiled on earth forever . |
| 8 | The main problem was that we had to do it with a RELIANT ROBIN three wheeler car , looking remarkably similar to Del Boy 's . |
| 9 | The first thing I thought of was that we 'd offended them in some way we did n't know — done a terrible insult to their gods or something . |
| 10 | All that we had to say to them was that we intended to tax them more severely . |
| 11 | The man 's story was that she had told him she did not feel at all well , and he had told her to lie down on the sofa in the living room . |
| 12 | It was that he had made her betray herself . |
| 13 | The absurd fact was that he had married her for her gaiety . |
| 14 | The only reason Naylor had removed that hat was that he had ordered her to do it and , unused to not being obeyed , had taken it upon himself to remove it personally — no argument . |
| 15 | The reason for his pleasure , as well as for the handkerchief 's greyness , was that he had washed it himself … and really he had done just as good a job as the dhobi had been doing for the most extravagant prices . |
| 16 | ‘ What he liked about the play was that he enjoyed speaking it . |
| 17 | She saw then that saying this had been unpardonable , but the odd thing was that he did pardon her , and laughed , and quietly fished some of the soggy pills out of the sink in case he fancied one later after all . |
| 18 | The reason that Jesus talked with this woman was that he wanted to save her . |
| 19 | But the true reason was that he wanted to prevent me from writing any more good poems about them . ) |
| 20 | And erm the provivo proviso was that you had to pay it back though . |
| 21 | Of course the main thing about the shoes was that I had to wear them all the time . |
| 22 | All I knew , in the heat of that moment , was that I had to protect you from me , had to take heed of that barely grasped truth that I could n't perhaps take your virginity and then just walk away . ’ |
| 23 | Of course , my real reason was that I hoped to get him back , but it has n't worked . ’ |
| 24 | Now he was dead , brutally murdered , and Corbett knew his only crime was that someone had watched them talk . |