Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] that i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
| 2 | ‘ But why I mentioned her was that I heard by chance that she has married again . ’ |
| 3 | I chose residential care and so it was that I came to Le Court In September 1977 . |
| 4 | I tried to explain why it was that I went into the bushes , tried to make it sound reasonable . ’ |
| 5 | So it was that I lay in honeycombs of tiny compartments , stacked into loose piles and sheaves with onion-skin leaves of paper . |
| 6 | so it was n't the fact I was trying to lose too much speed , it was that I changed into first and did n't have |
| 7 | What really struck me was that I looked like a concentration camp prisoner . |