Example sentences of "[was/were] that [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | All that she knew was that she needed it . |
| 32 | The only thing was that he said it after Bridgend had beaten Wales a week earlier . |
| 33 | The first was that he said he wanted an interval before he ‘ took on ’ Shakespeare again . |
| 34 | That was how she described it to herself , although what it really meant was that he took her to bed whenever he felt like it and occasionally gave her an absent-minded smile backstage . |
| 35 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ When I told him , his reply was that he thought I had liked going there , and he burst out with , ‘ Thank goodness you told me . |
| 37 | Rachel asked suddenly as they drank black coffee , because the question had been burning on her mind for some time , and she told herself it was important strategically to find out , although she suspected the truth was that he fascinated her . |
| 38 | All she knew of Travis was that he despised her and believed her to be a thief . |
| 39 | perhaps , he thought as he followed Maisie down the front path , it was that he knew them only as fathers , as people whose primary function was to stand at the edge of swimming pools , dank gymnasia or football fields , their collective manhoods bruised by nurture , blurring with age and helpless love . |
| 40 | It is precisely because he knew who God was that he knew he could trust God in the dark . |
| 41 | I have been thinking about my nearly twenty years friendship with him and especially what it was that he gave me in terms of belief and understanding of the job . |
| 42 | erm no what happened was that he gave me some bones that were far too big for the dogs . |
| 43 | It has been suggested that the real reason Judas betrayed Jesus was that he wanted him to be a popular Messiah who would drive out the Romans . |
| 44 | I do n't know whether it was that he wanted me to see my ‘ virtue ’ triumph over his ‘ vice ’ , or something subtler , that sometimes losing is winning . |
| 45 | The next thing was that he wanted her to hold the bulge . |
| 46 | So Rob 's instruction was that he put them in those files and I did n't think it was a particularly good idea because everything 's easier to find if it 's in the envelopes that we 've put them in . |
| 47 | What really mattered was that he loved you and that tomorrow he would be waiting by the beech tree , at seven . |
| 48 | For Friend I would — if I only knew what it was that he wants me to do or be . |
| 49 | The secret of Jesus ' great kindness to people was that he helped them and yet always gave them space to be themselves . |
| 50 | And I fancy that erm a large part of his animus against latterday Oxford philosophy was that he suspected it of covert idealism , erm a preoccupation simply with the knowing mind , insufficient attention to the facts of the world as presented by science . |
| 51 | A clergyman in his late thirties recently said : ‘ No-one has asked me about my praying since I was ordained ! ’ — whether he wanted anyone to ask him was not clear , but the implication was that he needed it ! |
| 52 | ‘ The issue for you was that you thought I was after his money . |
| 53 | What made things particularly difficult was that I felt I was n't Black enough for my Black colleagues and that white workers picking up on the division used this to their advantage by divide-and-rule tactics . |
| 54 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
| 55 | When I was arrested in August , one charge against me was that I said I wanted free elections , ’ said Mr Carnogursky , aged 45 . |
| 56 | The most frightening thing was that I thought it would never stop . |
| 57 | All I said was that I thought it was a judgement from God that Blyth had first lost his leg and then had the replacement become the instrument of his downfall . |
| 58 | My problem , if you can call it that , at the time was that I thought I had all the natural talent in the world and did n't need to train . |
| 59 | What happened was that I mean you made curtains er the rusty red was affected by light , so eventually you got a curtain where where the red spots had been there were holes . |
| 60 | My first impression of the JMU was that I hope they do n't visit us , ’ admitted Robert Dicketts , South Eastern Society of Chartered Accountants president and partner of Sevenoaks-based Lee Dicketts & Co . |