Example sentences of "of [pron] [was/were] that [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't manage it and he said that he felt that he had to stop being an MP er for several reasons , one of them was that he thought most MPs like he agreed he was at certain times , were out of touch . |
| 2 | One of them was that he opened his morning newspaper with an enthusiasm he had not felt for years . |
| 3 | All we know of him was that he had been involved in RAF mountain rescue in Anglesey , and had quite recently been on a posting in Lincolnshire . |
| 4 | The little jokes , the smiles , the anecdotes about his childhood , about his city , had been nothing but clever prelude to her seduction but the worst of it was that she 'd been so damnably easy to seduce . |
| 5 | The pity of it was that she had n't made a bigger part for herself in the night 's scenario ; she was getting polite nods and hellos from people that she already knew slightly , and curious glances from most of the others . |
| 6 | The two went into a long drinking session , and the end of it was that he bought the man 's seventeen-year-old daughter outright , with the last of his grant . |
| 7 | And all the time you were n't really there , you were somewhere else entirely , and the funniest part of it was that you ended up looking like a pro , like a model who lived for these moments in the public eye . |
| 8 | And the worst part of it was that it had been so wonderful that it would be hard to avoid doing it again . |
| 9 | The ingenuity of it was that it operated exactly like a Jacquard loom , which is a loom for weaving tapestries without human control no matter how intricate or varied the design . |
| 10 | ‘ One good thing to come out of it was that it inspired me to play guitar and turned me into the person I am . ’ |