Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [that] i [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only problem with the job was that I had to work on a lot of Saturdays , which naturally interfered with my athletics , though the company were quite generous in giving me time off . |
| 2 | The effect of this inner sweetness was that I began to sing what previously I had spoken ; only I sang inwardly , and that for my Creator . |
| 3 | People envied me my birth and my childhood , but my secret pride was that I had rejected both to make of myself a prosaic and common-sense fellow . |
| 4 | ‘ However , the good news is that I managed to find the switch for the air-conditioning . |
| 5 | The next facet of my approach was that I wanted to see more flexibility in the hands of local family health services authorities over the application of funds and the use of the substantial sums of money that are available to them for the development of primary health care . |
| 6 | I remember doing a crossword once and I could n't imagine what this word was that I 'd got . |
| 7 | Another reason is that I thought writing in it might be like having someone to talk to , and if I read it back later it would be like someone talking to me . |
| 8 | The second reason is that I wanted to educate the carp into finding bait in the area before I alter the character of the swim in any way . |
| 9 | Of course , my real reason was that I hoped to get him back , but it has n't worked . ’ |
| 10 | But the main reason was that I wanted to explain how far I felt we had come in our understanding of the universe : how we might be near finding a complete theory that would describe the universe and everything in it . |
| 11 | My other reason was that I wanted to have an opportunity for a more leisurely chat with you about your future . ’ |
| 12 | The one good thing was that I began to get on much better with my children . |
| 13 | On the other , the only memory was that I had chosen as my lodgings , from the Equity good-digs book , an establishment under the auspices of a Madam somebody or other , under the mistaken impression that she was French and therefore bound to produce the most delicious cuisine for which her country was rightly famous . |
| 14 | The second bit was that I had to identify Billy . |
| 15 | All I could remember of my first visit was that I had found several items , including a Tudor buckle . |
| 16 | The reason why I joined the original class was that I had become intrigued by what I had heard and read about the Technique and I thought it might help prevent a second hip operation . |