Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , erm I 've actually got down that erm you assumed that his wife was n't a tax pay sorry , his wife was n't a tax payer and you assumed that she was n't working but you did actually pick back up on that later that she was n't that she was n't going back to work after having the children so erm tt that is now irrelevant but it was at the time that you were saying it , that you did n't actually pick it up . |
| 2 | She smiled then to soften any hint that she was annoyed that her mother thought she should be more home-orientated than she was now that she was married . |
| 3 | We are multiplication work and there is n't should be tackled and we were very that we can not do this without and therefore we accept the grant grant fifty thousand in these four counties planning service which I would say servicing . |
| 4 | It was declared the best policy was for the ‘ sent down ’ youth to remain where they were so that they could make their valuable contribution to the motherland on the ‘ agricultural front ’ , as in previous decades . |
| 5 | ‘ If it were simply that it would hardly be convincing , would it ? ’ |
| 6 | Afterwards Jared Tunstall had said to her mama , ‘ It was a question of a little hustler meeting a big one , and if it were n't that he has hurt Sally-Anne so badly I could almost admire the swine for his gall . |
| 7 | No , well I mean , it were n't as though I had n't put a payment in it were just that it probably was this taking Tracey 's book and I marked it onto Tracey 's , er , Tracey 's book . |
| 8 | Although she continued to knit , and sat upright , it was thus that she felt herself ; and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures . |
| 9 | It was thus that I had been able to gain some sense of the sort of place Miss Kenton had gone to live her married life . |
| 10 | It was thus that he arrived at his figure of six hundred and twenty thousand three hundred and thirty one pounds to the overall cost of future care in this case . |
| 11 | It was thus that it acquired its unique form : 35 km long and about 1.6 km wide with steep sides sloping to a flat bed . |
| 12 | Because of this she never had any time for her own parents : my mother could n't think it was right that they 'd parted with two of their children . ’ |
| 13 | Coleridge rationalized the departure in his poem ‘ Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement ’ , asking whether it was right that he should live in beauty and solitude while his ‘ unnumber 'd brethren toil 'd and bled ’ in the greater world . |
| 14 | I told Kidsons that I did n't think it was right that I should seek re-election , which was coming up on 30 April , and left it at that . ’ |
| 15 | I thought that it was right that I should talk to you , try and build a better picture of Michael . ’ |
| 16 | So you won , Ragu , and in retrospect I think it was right that you did . |
| 17 | If he needed to be questioned again it was right that it should be at home and with his parents present . |
| 18 | It was right that she should make it suffer for what it had done . |
| 19 | It was only now that it was over that she realised quite how it had got to her . |
| 20 | It was n't that we did n't get on , we did — surprisingly well , in fact . |
| 21 | If it was n't that we had to develop from an egg in every generation , I do n't think that kind of conservatism would be observed . |
| 22 | In Barry and Helen 's case , it was n't that their problems were insoluble . |
| 23 | The calculations would seem a lunatic fantasy if it was n't that they were produced by an organization which then occupied the centre stage of British energy policy . |
| 24 | It was n't that they could n't speak , they did n't no how to speak , they did n't no how to speak but they could n't . |
| 25 | It was n't that they were prudish , I could tell they 'd heard it before . |
| 26 | It was n't that they were particularly good or , come to that , that Hartlepool were too bad . |
| 27 | You see , it was n't that they had no faith , they had faith we were saying the other week when we were dealing with this , we all have faith it 's what we do with it . |
| 28 | It was n't that she wanted to work in a sex shop but that she needed work of some kind . |
| 29 | So far , Marie had lasted longer than either of them : it was n't that she was better at her job than they were , it was just that she did n't expect so much of people . |
| 30 | It was n't that she felt left out — ‘ in fairness , they had said to me that I could go out with them anytime , but it 's a really grotty place , and I also did n't want them to feel I was a hanger-on ’ — it was just that she had nowhere else to go . |