Example sentences of "was [adv] that she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was enough that she had to work with him . |
| 2 | It was merely that she had learned from her life with him that , like many married women , she did n't really need a husband . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was only now that it was over that she realised quite how it had got to her . |
| 5 | It was just that she knew that there was something seriously wrong with her — something far more dramatic than a grumbling appendix or the normal after-effects of an operation . |
| 6 | It was just that she became — tiresome , really , she was so dinging . |
| 7 | She was n't a bad wife or anything like that , it was just that she 'd met this man at work , where she worked , they both worked at a dry cleaning place . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was just that she had been too much in love at the time to see it . |
| 10 | It was n't that she had n't been talking to Mandy , it was just that she had let her displeasure over that application be felt for an entire week now . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was just that she did n't lie , to herself or others , about what they were . |
| 13 | When she was n't explaining that she and the libbers were on the same side really , Mrs Travers took pains to point out that FAMILY had no quarrel with the poor or socially inadequate ; it was just that she wanted to pay tribute to the unsung millions of women ( and men ) who lived normal lives , did not swap roles , get divorces or abortions , become homeless or batter their children ( or their wives ) ; people who faced misfortune with re-sourcefulness and courage and without recourse to public funds . |
| 14 | It was just that she loved Eve as much as any mother could love a daughter . |
| 15 | It was just that she disliked Julius 's secretary so very much . |
| 16 | It was not that she had signed under some induced misapprehension as to the nature or character of what she was signing . |
| 17 | The most astonishing aspect of the case was not that she had an understandable desire to disport herself in space , but that under the law as it stands a major general had to offer her an abject apology for the recruiting sergeant showing a welcome piece of common sense . |
| 18 | It was not that she lacked sympathy for Sarah ; she had made that plain in her letter to John . |
| 19 | It was not that she felt any differently about motherhood . |
| 20 | It was not that she felt a need for approval , but it was disheartening that these people should show so little comprehension of the sacrifice she had made in wedding her life to theirs . |
| 21 | The answer she gave was not that she did n't know Mr Lawson 's stated reason for resigning , but that she found it incomprehensible . |
| 22 | It was not that she minded the hard work ; it was what the hard work did to her poor hands . |
| 23 | It was not that she wanted to kill Simon any more . |
| 24 | For Laura , work had now become an end in itself ; although some of her colleagues began to describe her as a workaholic it was more that she found working a pleasurable state . |
| 25 | I think it was more that she wanted to get rid of Wyatt . |
| 26 | It was now that she gained her reputation for eccentricity . |
| 27 | It was now that she started a canteen , run by a mother of eight , Gwenny Hughes . |
| 28 | I do n't suppose she was more than forty , yet — It was n't that she looked old , but there was something about her , as if she was somehow apart from what was going on . ’ |
| 29 | It was n't that she looked forward to them exactly , but the fury he 'd used to generate was gone . |
| 30 | It was n't that she had anything against him personally ; he was a charming and clever man , dedicated to his school , an entrepreneur who was using the fruits of his success to fulfil a lifetime 's dream — and good luck to him , she thought . |