Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [be] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The thing that surprised me most was that they did n't know how to make a quality tube at AISA and we showed them . ’ |
| 2 | What distressed her most was that she began to find herself liking the woman , with whom she realized she had much in common . |
| 3 | Now , unless she could rescue herself , she had not even a place on the outside of Mrs Browning 's life and what troubled her most was that she cared . |
| 4 | ‘ They used their failure to get sponsorship as an excuse to get out , ’ says Mario with understandable bitterness , and what hurt him most was that they strung him along until well into 1976 , despite the fact that he could easily have had another drive . |
| 5 | What annoyed him though was that he had to make most of the preparations . |
| 6 | The difficulty with writing it down was that it became real to the extent of being in a book , there were two lives , the one in the book and the one which he lived to collect the details for the book one ; he could go further in his head than on the page , the words slowed him down . |
| 7 | I 've got I 've got the currency and you 're sort the way we 're sorting it out is that we pay a quarter and you pay a half |
| 8 | Can it really be that you do not remember ? ’ |
| 9 | Wainfleet did not want it back , the only reason he was carrying it around was that he had jotted a telephone number on the back . |
| 10 | The reason why this amendment in my view is one that can take us forward is that it places responsibility now for clearing up the mess clearly where it belongs and that 's with the Labour group . |
| 11 | The only thing that I 've just thought about actually is window wh in the me on the measurement side rather than anything else is that I have n't Because we 've just had those windows replaced , I have n't finished decorating around the top . |