Example sentences of "was that [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was pleasant to feel safe and looked-after , and another nice thing was that nobody remarked on , or even appeared to notice my absence of rings — except the Matron , who was inclined to toss her head a bit as she passed me , but perhaps she just had a tic . |
| 2 | The sole result was that they brought back a hatred of all Europeans , except the Germans , whose courage they admired . |
| 3 | The drawback was that they fell out again . |
| 4 | So it was that they went on to do other things , but separately ; a ‘ beautiful ’ working relationship was thereby broken up , and two highly creative thinkers had their play-writing ambitions stillborn . |
| 5 | Kingsley Amis , who wrote an adventure for Bond as well as creating Jim Dixon , reflects aptly on the reasons for his : ‘ What happened was that we came in at the tail end of the literary tradition to the effect that no decent girl enjoys sex — only tarts were supposed to do that . |
| 6 | The overt thing was that we came in from outside , but I think the hidden thing was that we were women . |
| 7 | ‘ The most fortunate thing was that we found out he came from a village in Essex and by sheer chance Mr Woods came from the same county and knew the same village which gave them something to talk about . ’ |
| 8 | But of course he was right about the trouser bit because Nan had a gay disposition and a very pretty face ; what he would n't admit to was that she brought in a lot of custom at the week-end , especially when there was a boat in and some of the sailors would make their way up from the quayside and spend freely on chocolate or toffee for their girls . |
| 9 | To Marquand , MacDonald 's real fault was that he held on to his nineteenth-century principles for too long . |
| 10 | You completely the wife actually what erm another good point was that you got in are , are there dependants there were certain close questions again , the fact that the wife smoked a pipe gave you the opportunity to turn round and say well that 's , that 's good , that 's a benefit because she could be classed as a non-smoker there 's just wee er opportunities there and that 's as much as I had if anyone else wants to add to these comments . |
| 11 | The beauty about those days was that you built up suites of software to suit the way you worked . |
| 12 | And all the time you were n't really there , you were somewhere else entirely , and the funniest part of it was that you ended up looking like a pro , like a model who lived for these moments in the public eye . |
| 13 | There was no attempt to persuade and the result was that I blew up . |
| 14 | Naturally June could n't understand why it was that I went on cutting her . |
| 15 | Its real blessing , of course , was that it kept down the numbers of mice and rats . |
| 16 | An interesting feature of this school 's approach was that it set about evaluating library use by monitoring the numbers of children referred by different departments . |
| 17 | To Nicholas , the only immediate benefit of that wholly unpleasant discussion was that it shut up both le Grant and Tobie ; and even Astorre , when found and brought to the villa , was unnaturally silent except on matters purely martial . |