Example sentences of "[noun sg] be that we [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 My biggest disappointment is that we ended up playing ‘ route one ’ football in the last 20 minutes .
2 The difference is that we did n't know then what we know now , we did n't know what would become of us ’ ; or ‘ We were so young and spilling over with everything inside ’ .
3 But we did n't have to , what I mean the point is that we did n't have to tell , have to tell them , they already knew .
4 Well , perhaps the trouble is that we wrote down Maxwell 's equations in a stationary frame of reference .
5 The trouble is that we did n't have our leaflets ready because when you d er depend on large firms to help you , you know they 're always just so busy when you need them , so it was dragged out .
6 yeah ten for the left and ninety for the right and the reason we talked about this and the way that 's involved in communication is that we said well if there 's a lot more power or a lot more contribution to the design of what we 're doing of a spatial nature and that is how the the audience 's brain work more powerfully in the spatial nature let's present what we have let's design it and then deliver it as close to a spatial nature as we can okay .
7 Do n't let it slip straight away , I mean That was annoying thing is that we did n't deserve to lose three one really , I mean
8 The overt thing was that we came in from outside , but I think the hidden thing was that we were women .
9 ‘ The most fortunate thing was that we found out he came from a village in Essex and by sheer chance Mr Woods came from the same county and knew the same village which gave them something to talk about . ’
10 Certainly when I was setting up my studio in the country , the nice thing was that we did n't do anything standard ; we did n't take anything for granted , whether it was mics , positions of drums or anything .
11 I denied it for a long time because I was so determined to make this marriage work , but the reality was that we did n't really care for each other any more , or at least somewhere among all the battles our love had been well and truly buried .
12 Our problem was that we had not learned enough .
13 The problem was that we did n't know why there had been such a dramatic improvement .
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