Example sentences of "[be] that i [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | I wondered how it could be that I was going to marry Syl . |
2 | When the news did become public , colleagues who had avoided speaking to me when the going got tough reappeared and said how sorry they were that I was leaving . |
3 | But he seemed to think because you 'd had your stroke almost a year ago that I should be over it ; his exact words were that I was looking for sympathy . |
4 | The truth is that I was sent to Scotland to find out what happened , is happening and might happen . ’ |
5 | If I find in myself a desire for which no experience in this world can satisfy , the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world . |
6 | The other side of that is that I was listening to Medicine Now on Radio Four , and they 've got a device where they you actually have er an earpiece put into your ear and it clicks continuously . |
7 | I mean what the strange thing is that I was reading about |
8 | The whole story is that I was asked to ride Docklands Express , Cool Ground , Auntie Dot and Bonanza Boy in home gallops for the television cameras and then to compare the quartet . |
9 | ‘ If anything can be concluded from this book , it is that I was born , ’ writes Sisson after touching on that event , which occurred 75 years ago in a building since occupied by the Bristol Rovers Supporters Club . |
10 | The truth is that I was suffering from insomnia : a full stomach is more conducive to sleep than is an empty one . |
11 | The good thing is that I was introduced to Tracey right from the start . |
12 | The worst thing that happened to me was that I was moved to another hut on the Waaf site and found myself amongst a very superior set of girls who worked in Radar . |
13 | The upshot was that I was summoned by the university authorities and told that I was to be allowed to continue my studies but only under certain stringent conditions . |
14 | The plan was that I was to remain in England and organise the Arts Lab with Mary Finnigan and see it did n't fall apart . ’ |
15 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
16 | I 'll now tol t no I know I told you that I was that I was feeling |
17 | The idea was that I was going to have these images around the base , and then I never did the Crucifixion . |
18 | One was that all people knew about me was that I was making trouble about the caravan site and a lot of them assumed that because it was at the bottom of my own garden , I must naturally be on ‘ their side ’ , whatever my political colour : that is , I wanted the site disbanded . |
19 | The result of this ineptitude was that I was rumbled as a single parent within days , if not hours , and subsequently approached as if I were a fatal poison masquerading as a person . |
20 | Uncoached I was at least able to survive a couple of rounds in the local tournaments ; a stroke of luck at this stage was that I was paired with a newcomer to the Command — a FIt Lt Reep who was in a different league to mine — and we entered for competitions and this raised my game quite a bit . |