Example sentences of "thing be that [pron] [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The important thing is that you made it . |
| 2 | The most frightening thing was that I thought it would never stop . |
| 3 | ‘ You know , the worst thing was that I missed it . ’ |
| 4 | The only thing was that he said it after Bridgend had beaten Wales a week earlier . |
| 5 | The strange thing was that she knew it was Ernest 's bell , the bell she had tactfully told him would be unsuitable for the kind of school he had in mind . |
| 6 | There was n't a spare bed , for a start — but the main thing was that she knew it would annoy Alan . |