Example sentences of "be that i had " in BNC.
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| 1 | But first I want to say how sorry I am that I had to send Dawn to you instead of coming myself as I promised . |
| 2 | I wanted it to be that I had n't really been that big before I left — in other words , prove them wrong . |
| 3 | The implications were that I had no physical characteristics of my own , but that in the same way as I ‘ had ’ my father 's nose , or my grandmother 's eyes , I somehow inhabited a body which was not mine but a replica of my mother 's , and over which , therefore , I had no control . |
| 4 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 5 | The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : … |
| 6 | ‘ The thing I remember about my first visit is that I had never sung so much before . |
| 7 | ‘ The truth is that I had never even met him . ’ |
| 8 | The fact is that I had already begun to give serious consideration to the possibility of doing away with Dennis Parsons . |
| 9 | One thing I realised about my renewal of my faith is that I had nothing to do with it ! |
| 10 | The awful thing is that I had a chance to meet him . |
| 11 | ‘ The reason I rang last night is that I had a message from your publishers , ’ he went on . |
| 12 | this is rather what what it , makes it difficult is that I had a copy as well farce right , but do n't say farcical . |
| 13 | Now it was that I had a chance of discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar off and imitated in fairly cold blood . |
| 14 | What I did not realise then — but what I would discover the moment I embarked on my journey to those front doors — was that I had touched upon the essence of the Arab–Israeli war ; that while the existence of the Palestinians and their demand for a nation lay at the heart of the Middle East crisis , it was the contradiction inherent in the claims to ownership of the land of Palestine — the ‘ homeland ’ of the Jews in Balfour 's declaration — which generated the anger and fear of both Palestinians and Israelis . |
| 15 | Of course the main thing about the shoes was that I had to wear them all the time . |
| 16 | The reason why I joined the original class was that I had become intrigued by what I had heard and read about the Technique and I thought it might help prevent a second hip operation . |
| 17 | The only problem with the job was that I had to work on a lot of Saturdays , which naturally interfered with my athletics , though the company were quite generous in giving me time off . |
| 18 | What I did n't say was that I had n't been making love to her but to Alison , taking her from behind on the kitchen table , her rump high in the air and her toes squirming helplessly an inch or two off the floor . |
| 19 | People envied me my birth and my childhood , but my secret pride was that I had rejected both to make of myself a prosaic and common-sense fellow . |
| 20 | The first thought that came to me was that I had n't got my clean bloomers on . |
| 21 | I suppose the problem was that I had never been told about it officially — that is , by an adult — and so I had somehow blocked off the information , not connecting it with myself , with my own body . |
| 22 | The only snag was that I had bad after-effects from the anaesthetic . |
| 23 | On the other , the only memory was that I had chosen as my lodgings , from the Equity good-digs book , an establishment under the auspices of a Madam somebody or other , under the mistaken impression that she was French and therefore bound to produce the most delicious cuisine for which her country was rightly famous . |
| 24 | The second element was that I had just started working at the London School of Economics in October 1970 , which was exactly the same time as GLF started meeting there and LSE was in one of its periods of turmoil which involved me as someone working on the staff and excited me politically . |
| 25 | But the main thing , after all , was that I had sent nothing abroad , although some diplomat friends had offered to do this for me . |
| 26 | I now have 4 years ' teaching experience although I too was thrown in at the deep end — my only advantage over others was that I had studied languages myself and knew how difficult it could be . |
| 27 | The most obvious revelation was that I had a very ow opinion of myself and was constantly seeking the approval of others , because my mother had always withheld approval . |
| 28 | And how it was that I had rediscovered the gift in pubescence , as if prompted by my burgeoning sexuality . |
| 29 | I wondered , since my mother was principally concerned for my health , and Lili only for my dress , why it was that I had felt secure until my mother arrived . |
| 30 | All I could remember of my first visit was that I had found several items , including a Tudor buckle . |