Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [that] i [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wood is alder and the deal is that I scaled down the body a little bit . |
| 2 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 3 | There was no attempt to persuade and the result was that I blew up . |
| 4 | The thought uppermost in my mind was that I had always wondered how young horses felt when I knocked wolf teeth out of them . |
| 5 | ‘ His criticism of my sermon was that I had not gone far enough , ’ continued Father Kipling . |
| 6 | My answer to that long intervention is that I did not say that a payroll tax was the same as the selective employment tax . |
| 7 | ‘ The truth is that I had never even met him . ’ |
| 8 | The truth is that I kept on having mental lapses , during which I could hear every word that was being spoken , understand the meaning of each word and even of some phrases , but could n't make these disparate utterances add up to anything that made sense . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , yes , man , but the point is that I did n't leave it , and now these confounded women have taken possession of the cottage . |
| 10 | The truth was that I did n't know how to effect such an aim , and if I found myself eating any more than the minimum — that is , enough for me to remain undetected by the authorities-I considered myself guilty of backsliding , and had to punish myself by eating even less the next day or at the next meal . |
| 11 | And as I walk back through the streets the other thing fuelling this self-criticism is that I turned up there with the gun . |
| 12 | What I was trying to say my Lord was that I did n't know was associated or was associated at that time . |
| 13 | ‘ I think my trouble was that I had too much help and felt as if my boobs were all anyone was interested in . |
| 14 | It 's a testament to how captivating The Orb 's music is that I got off on this so much , completely alone and without recourse to anything stronger than the Institute 's lukewarm lager . |
| 15 | The greatest relief was that I had n't called in on my way down or I would have been with them . |
| 16 | The first reason is that I did not want to advertise to anyone interested that a new swim had been create and cultivated . |
| 17 | I asked myself if I minded and the answer was that I did n't . " |
| 18 | The problem with that painting is that I did n't know if it was a real |
| 19 | The second element was that I had just started working at the London School of Economics in October 1970 , which was exactly the same time as GLF started meeting there and LSE was in one of its periods of turmoil which involved me as someone working on the staff and excited me politically . |
| 20 | I suppose the problem was that I had never been told about it officially — that is , by an adult — and so I had somehow blocked off the information , not connecting it with myself , with my own body . |
| 21 | My understanding of the case was that I 'd not yet found a remedy to cover the fibroid as well as everything else so I chose Phosphorus LM1 from the rubric bleeding fibroids since it covered her fears and complemented the Arsenicum . |
| 22 | The fact is that I had already begun to give serious consideration to the possibility of doing away with Dennis Parsons . |
| 23 | The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : … |
| 24 | The inescapable fact is that I did n't want to be a woman , although I was unaware of this at the time . |
| 25 | The fact is that I did n't — do n't want you to make such a sacrifice and give up the zoo work you like so much . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The thing I remember about my first visit is that I had never sung so much before . |