Example sentences of "[prep] was [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we first started with him , even when we were rehearsing properly with him , all we could think of was that he could n't sing . |
| 2 | All he could think of was that he wanted to sneeze . |
| 3 | All I was conscious of was that everything had miscarried , and in my isolation , I was powerless to do anything . |
| 4 | What he was sure of was that she 'd disappeared , and that was inconvenient to him . |
| 5 | I thought for a while and said that the only thing I could think of was that the British government did not — although it would have been slow to admit it — at that moment cut much ice with the South African government , but the United States government cut considerable ice . |
| 6 | The first thing I thought of was that we 'd offended them in some way we did n't know — done a terrible insult to their gods or something . |
| 7 | All she could think of was that they 'd all been in on this — a kind of family Mafia , working behind the scenes to make sure that Lucenzo ended up with everything , his empire untouched . |
| 8 | One thing we were both sure of was that we would return in the near future with no carp tackle , but to fish purely for the cats , that is if we can get booked of course . |
| 9 | What Lupus could be sure of was that invitations would be sent : the attendance-lists of assemblies are evidence of invitations received and obeyed . |
| 10 | All I could think of was that I knew that a Lee Metford was the forerunner of the Lee Enfield .303 rifle and almost became standard issue to the British army before WW1 . |
| 11 | I mean if , if you er er the whole experience of was that you could get rent reduction and interest rate reduction relatively peacefully so you would n't get disruption etcetera and you would n't get disruption and what , what you might come to recognize as a more , a more viable agricultural system . |
| 12 | Luke Calder was nothing but a ruthless manipulator who made people do what he wanted when he wanted it , yet all she could think of was that she wanted to feel again the hot urgency of his mouth ! |
| 13 | But one thing Rachel was certain of was that the revival of those memories had only intensified her dislike of her sister 's ex-fiancé , and when she arrived for work the following Monday morning and he was the first person she saw she found her resolve to have as little to do with him as possible had only been strengthened . |
| 14 | She had all that to fill her heart with but at this moment all she could think of was that the stranger had left her side . |
| 15 | Adam Burns was a hard man to get to know , but one thing she was instinctively sure of was that he 'd never back away from something simply because it was dangerous . |
| 16 | For , trying to analyse why she should want to see him again so badly , she realised that the only thing she could be positive of was that her wanting to see him again had nothing whatsoever to do with that infernal interview ! |
| 17 | One theory I came up with was that the down beat of its wings pushed it upwards and the up beat pushed it downwards and the two cancelled each other out so that the kestrel stayed where it was . |
| 18 | Question directly relating to that point though is it not true that the Eastern Arts withdrawal of the ten thousand pound grant last year was directly related to criticisms made in both in the nineteen eighty six appraisal and subsequently and repeated both to The Star recently what with was that the marketing of the playhouse was drastically inadequate . |
| 19 | Controlling and reproducing the cell was , it seemed , all about controlling and reproducing information ; and what distinguished the molecules that embodied this new idea , proteins , DNA and RNA , from the much more boring small molecules that until then biochemists had worked with was that these giant molecules seemed to embody information ; they were , it appeared , informational macromolecules . |
| 20 | About the only practical thing I came up with was that I probably ought to start smoking again . |
| 21 | Er and as you said , the only goal we had to start with was that we should turn the big losses into profit . |
| 22 | what I most often heard when I phoned people a couple of days in was that it 's been the worst two days of my life ! |
| 23 | Labour Councillors in have crippled Social Services , have reneged on their promises to the people of when one of the biggest lies we 've seen on any political papers in was that they would defend and not close elderly persons homes . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | What ‘ sociological punch ’ had amounted to was that actors could still make films work . |
| 26 | He used a lot of abstruse terms like " cricoid " but what it amounted to was that she had been strangled . |
| 27 | But even so he stripped her without haste , all the while keeping up a slow calculated assault on her senses , until the only thought she could cling to was that she must n't reveal her love . |
| 28 | Now when you moved to was that a kind different kind of work obviously you were doing a wee bit more variety . |
| 29 | One thing I was n't keen on was that the noise suppressor stayed on all the time . |
| 30 | One of the grounds relied on was that the company was insolvent . |