Example sentences of "the awful thing be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The awful thing is that I had a chance to meet him . |
| 2 | The awful thing is that one almost agrees . |
| 3 | Paul remembers that the awful thing is that each time he never even felt carsick until after Ed threw up . |
| 4 | The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university . |
| 5 | The awful thing was that all this time Lewis had never had any doubts he was himself the new owner of Wyvis Hall . |
| 6 | Ryan , his charm , his humour ; those impossibly blue eyes , the golden hair , the laughing handsome face ; and the awful thing was that , if he came back tomorrow , she did n't think she 'd be immune , despite all that he had done . |
| 7 | The awful thing was that , as I said it , I began to have serious doubts about it . |