Example sentences of "[det] [be] [conj] i [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and waited six months to get home , that 's before I got married |
| 2 | ‘ That 's because I came to live here . |
| 3 | That 's because I needed to get somewhere . |
| 4 | That 's cos I kept hitting it , bloody . |
| 5 | I know , that was before I 'd started those . |
| 6 | I had wondered once whether that was the reason my father had married her , but that was before I had learned that men are not much given to acts of altruism , and certainly not in sexual matters . |
| 7 | That was before I got married , of course . ’ |
| 8 | But that was after I 'd gone . |
| 9 | That was after I 'd sold out and sent Julia to … overseas . |
| 10 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 11 | I have to be honest and admit that I accepted the invitation to dinner to try to find out once and for all if you were involved with Martin , but that was because I needed to know , needed to prove your innocence , because I was falling in love with you . |
| 12 | So that was If I 'd done it you see , that was spoiling them . |