Example sentences of "was [adv] that we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So give us some indication of what sort of press release it was so that we know what we 're talking about in the |
| 2 | We made two hundred and forty five pounds on Thriller of the Year one hundred and nineteen pounds on Tea for Two but that is after we 've made the three hundred pounds donation to Whiston Hospital we made a thousand and eighteen pounds on the panto Wuthering Heights we lost four hundred and nine pounds , but that was basically that we do costume plays and have to hire the erm fixtures and set pieces from Wrightsons or wherever we 're always going to be in this position and I think it 's the tradition of the Garrick that we continue to do them , and I think we have to accept that we may have losses in future on those particular erm things . |
| 3 | ‘ With ‘ Spirit Of Eden ’ it was just that we had the freedom to move into this constructive freeform style of playing , which up till then we just could n't afford to do , ’ continues Mark . |
| 4 | It was just that we had so little in common . |
| 5 | She burst into tears and said she had not meant to criticize me ; it was just that we did n't love her , nobody did , and she had only her ‘ things ’ to care for now . |
| 6 | Indeed I am rather coming round to the view that the trouble last year was not that we failed to produce as good policies as our opponents but that we failed to produce policies for the issues the electorate was most interested in . |
| 7 | Our failure was not that we neglected the figures , but that we ignored the ideology … |
| 8 | As Institute president Ian Plaistowe said very wisely in his letter to the Financial Times , we should work towards recording similar events in similar ways ; my point was simply that we do not want to record different things in similar ways , and that is where judgment will come in : for example , some securitisations are valid , others not . |
| 9 | It was here that we sought to capture a record of the least-contacted tribal peoples while there was still time . |
| 10 | It was here that we received confirmation that Argentinian troops had landed and had occupied Port Stanley . |
| 11 | We reached Chelalo on the Arussi mountains in the afternoon of 5 October ; it was here that we expected to find nyala . |
| 12 | At the head of Gunnerside Gill beyond the ruins of Blakethwaite Mine are the ruined dams of Blakethwaite , and it was here that we stopped for our lunch . |
| 13 | It was here that we found the official report of the operation by 22 Squadron on September 17 , 1940 , the report with which I had opened this story . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was n't that we did n't get on , we did — surprisingly well , in fact . |
| 16 | It was then that we spotted something white moving high up on the cliffs , under a colony of kittiwakes — our first fox . |
| 17 | It was then that we made the surprising discovery that the Sultan , " the Great Mountain " , is officially married to Loro Kidul . |
| 18 | It was then that we took on the giants of the Premier Division , Clutton Town , in the FA Cup . |
| 19 | He was mad about it — he absolutely loved it — it was then that we began to realise there was something in David . ’ |
| 20 | These end-of-day meetings were very important , for it was then that we reviewed our progress , comparing our morning 's expectations with the fruits of our labours . |
| 21 | It was there that we met Ramses . |
| 22 | Now it was there that we became separated , I developed a very bad throat and could not fly , just before we were ready to leave for overseas as in his crew and the other crews that were there went on whereas I got held back and of course the way I feel about it is that that week that I got held back , saved my life . |