Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] that he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards Jared Tunstall had said to her mama , ‘ It was a question of a little hustler meeting a big one , and if it were n't that he has hurt Sally-Anne so badly I could almost admire the swine for his gall . |
| 2 | It was thus that he arrived at his figure of six hundred and twenty thousand three hundred and thirty one pounds to the overall cost of future care in this case . |
| 3 | It was n't that he felt pity for them ; far from it — their passivity revolted him . |
| 4 | It was n't that he feared betrayal . |
| 5 | It was n't that he wanted to be more imaginative than them . |
| 6 | It was n't that he minded her presence ; and he did n't mind her company , on those occasions when he actually spent time with her . |
| 7 | It was n't that he did n't like women , you understand , he simply stayed faithful to one who was dead . |
| 8 | It was not that he had found the one secret place where the Author could not see him . |
| 9 | It was not that he had been dilatory in his duty of interviewing all those sent to the camp who were in any way , minor or major , special . |
| 10 | It was not that he had never loved his only child . |
| 11 | It was not that he posed any real threat ( although he was discussing collaboration with moderate socialist exiles ) . |
| 12 | It was not that he boasted — or not very much . |
| 13 | Mr Gillis had stuck a plastic hook near the top of this door on the inside and it was here that he chose to hang his white trilby . |
| 14 | It was here that he made his name , carrying out the first really ambitious operation of its kind in the country , which was to be a blueprint for his ‘ Great Design ’ for the Fens . |
| 15 | Jam-packed with a complete run of Plebs and sets of the TUC and Labour Party conference reports , it was here that he wrote his book The Labour College Movement . |
| 16 | Jam-packed with a complete run of Plebs and sets of the TUC and Labour Party conference reports , it was here that he wrote his book The Labour College Movement . |
| 17 | It said , In this house ( and the ceramic of the plaque had broken and the name was missing ) stayed on his first visit to the city , and it was here that he wrote the opening pages of his greatest work . |
| 18 | It was here that he spotted two men stealing a truck loaded with aluminium scrap . |
| 19 | It was here that he died in March 1779 and laid to rest beside the sea in the churchyard at Marske . |
| 20 | It was here that he had become a doorman before going on to live in England . |
| 21 | And it was here that he met Marianne , a young woman of great beauty , high intelligence , deep sympathy , and fun . |
| 22 | It was here that he met his future wife , Jan , and the pair eventually set up their own practice . |
| 23 | It was here that he completed income tax forms , read carefully through the property pages of most of the local newspapers and , most sacred of all , worked on his Complete History of Wimbledon . |
| 24 | In 1906 , he went to Cambridge to found the Mission for the Deaf and Dumb , and it was here that he entered University . |
| 25 | He had n't meant to , it was just that he had become so tired , so exhausted with the Springalls , the murders , the deceit and the lies . |
| 26 | It was just that he had strange ideas which took him into bad company . |
| 27 | Perhaps it was just that he had already made other plans . |
| 28 | Perhaps he could n't bear to , perhaps it was just that he felt his marriage to be a private affair . |
| 29 | It was rarely that he felt such a direct clash between his twin roles as actor and detective . |
| 30 | It was simply that he had begun to fear we had arranged this with Flora : as if , in his mind , he could hear her saying , oh yes , what a splendid idea , I shall be bored with young Adam by Fez … |