Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [was/were] that [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But why I mentioned her was that I heard by chance that she has married again . ’ |
| 2 | The verdict of the clerk to the select committee of 1824 which reviewed it was that it had been a dead letter so far as " those artisans on whom it was intended to have an effect " , namely printers , tailors , shoe makers and shipbuilders in London who continued " their regular societies and houses of call as though no such act were in existence " . |
| 3 | So tt and of course , the other thing I learnt there was that you had dinner the wrong way round , you did n't have your pudding first , to fill you up . . |
| 4 | All that amazed her was that he had not expected that . |
| 5 | ‘ All he told us was that he wanted to go up to Luxor . |
| 6 | What shook Burton was not that he would appear to ‘ the World ’ , i.e. the metropolitan thespians , as someone who had failed in a straight contest with another rising young actor , Scofield — although that made him angry and inflamed his competitive instincts — what shook him was that he had no real idea why it had happened . |
| 7 | The appropriate procedures for investigation were followed and the opinion of the consultant paediatrician who examined her was that she had been chronically abused sexually . |
| 8 | What really struck me was that I looked like a concentration camp prisoner . |
| 9 | What infuriated her was that they charged three shillings for afternoon tea , so she decided to forgo it because she knew the men would still be out on the links . ’ |