Example sentences of "was that [pers pn] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | What happened was that he fell in love . |
| 2 | Although Mr X was a director of the ‘ bank ’ , his defence was that he acted in good faith ; indeed , said the defence , such was his faith in the word of his associates that he had invested , and lost , his own money in the venture , always acting on the advice of his colleagues ' , without ever questioning it . |
| 3 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 4 | That was the one thing that was that I read in the books that it was kind of tradition for the men to wear black . |
| 5 | So it was that I lay in honeycombs of tiny compartments , stacked into loose piles and sheaves with onion-skin leaves of paper . |
| 6 | One of the reasons I managed to improve so quickly was that I practised in flat water with a steady wind . |
| 7 | The only curious thing was that I found in my room a handbill from a Frenchman trying to solicit backers to export parchment to France and import wine into England . |
| 8 | What I did know was that I discerned in the detail the cynical hand of the practising hack . |
| 9 | For many years I have experience severe rain leakage through the canvas tilt on my Series III.1 once made the mistake of coating another vehicle 's tilt with polyurethane paint but the result was that it hung in tatters within a year as it became brittle . |
| 10 | Indeed , one of the key features of the Nottinghamshire initiative was that it occurred in somewhat of a policy vacuum . |