Example sentences of "[vb infin] [was/were] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she did not know was that Moran , with his good looks and military fame , had once been king of these barn dances and now that he had neither youth nor fame would not take a lesser place . |
| 2 | What she could not know was that by refusing to deal with the Protestant threat until the crown matrimonial had been obtained , she would throw away the strongest card in her anti-Protestant hand before having a chance to play it . |
| 3 | What they did not know was that their legendary luck was about to run out . |
| 4 | What she did know was that she never wanted to go away again . |
| 5 | What they did not know was that in ten years time , that beautiful picture was to be blighted by Britain 's first commercial nuclear power station . |
| 6 | What startled spectator did not know was that a chiropractor on the Olympic Staff had given him a spinal adjustment immediately after the accident . |
| 7 | What I did know was that Shadwell was involved . |
| 8 | What they did not know was that the examination of the diamonds had finished before midnight to the complete satisfaction of Zack and his accomplices . |
| 9 | What he did n't know was that the local authorities were taking a very different line . |
| 10 | What I did know was that I did n't want to grow up , and my diary records that I confessed as much — when pressed to my housemistress . |
| 11 | What she did know was that he lived with his mother and two brothers , and that after the war he would go back to work in an insurance office . |
| 12 | What Arrhenius did not know was that there is a large amount of X-radiation washing about in space , and to this his hypothetical spores would certainly have been vulnerable . |
| 13 | What I did n't know was that a few months before we started to work together she had written a proposal to the Thai government to start a ‘ machine knitting project ’ in one of her districts . |
| 14 | In fact , barn owls are reckoned to be one of the hardest breeds to hand-rear and train , and they are n't recommended for beginners — though I did n't know that then , What I did know was that I 'd probably lost the battle with this owl before I 'd started : I suspected he would be impossible to train , but I was so hooked on the idea of having my own bird that I could hardly drag myself away when I was looking at him . |
| 15 | What the ‘ teacher ’ volunteer did not know was that the whole experiment was a set-up and that the ‘ learner ’ was in fact a co-worker of Milgram 's . |
| 16 | What he did n't know was that the secret military satellite launched on the Columbia space shuttle in the summer of 1989 also had the capability of following the Citation . |
| 17 | What he did n't know was that the captives had already been moved over two thousand miles to the east . |
| 18 | What he did n't know was that Myeloski wanted to share his knowledge with the Englishman . |
| 19 | What he did know was that Joe liked to be surrounded by young men . |
| 20 | What she did not know was that Freddie had two children by his other woman . |
| 21 | What he did not know was that the Government , by the next day , would be anxious to retreat from the formula , and that the miners ' executive , having dispersed itself from London , would give them all day in which to do so . |
| 22 | One thing William did know was that Uncle Titch had once worked in a circus . |
| 23 | Only what Kate did n't know was that when that break came , Patrick would also be after the bloke . |
| 24 | What I did n't know was that this species , again in marked contrast to the Mbuna norm , is a precocious spawner , and one morning I discovered my by now 1.5″ female brooding . |
| 25 | ‘ What I did n't know was that the man was an insomniac . |
| 26 | To contemporary commentators like Fyvel , the only other section of the population who behaved in such a way were the homosexuals ; what he did n't know was that this pursuit of pleasure , and concentration on self , were exactly those traits that would become desirable , and eventually , socially acceptable , with the extraordinary success of Elvis Presley and the Teen age that followed . |
| 27 | What that smarmy jock did not know was that a cousin of Proby , who is in insurance , had insured the grandstand disguised as a car — third party fire and theft . |
| 28 | What Mickey did not know was that Mrs Moon was so concerned about the loss of her pension book that she had offered £1,000,000 to anyone who found it ! |
| 29 | What his masters did n't know was that when Coy had worked in Washington for six years as a junior military attache in the British Embassy , the DDI was one of the young Americans he had befriended . |
| 30 | What I did n't know was that I was the entertainment afterwards ! |