Example sentences of "[be] that [pron] [vb past] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another reason is that I thought writing in it might be like having someone to talk to , and if I read it back later it would be like someone talking to me . |
| 2 | Kemp had reported to the group that he would be arriving in Oxford at 3 p.m. — and the simple truth is that he did arrive in Oxford at 3 p.m . |
| 3 | What I confirmed in answer to the question to which the hon. Gentleman has referred was that we had put in place measures to deal with the problems arising from repossession . |
| 4 | She has been the guardian of this wishing tree in the English churchyard since anyone alive can remember , though before that , the rumour was that she had lived in a wild state , before the islands were properly civilised . |
| 5 | Once again she wondered what it was that he had done in the war to make Anthony so angry . |
| 6 | The evidence was that he had worked in the UK for 40 weeks and in Italy for 50 weeks . |
| 7 | One of the major qualities of Michael 's performance was that he had to speak in three accents : one way to his troops , as their superior ; another way to the officers , his superiors ; and a third way to the German who had captured him . |
| 8 | Er my Lord it 's rather a complicated of transaction and the the essential heading this case was that he failed to advise in relation to title er the person who goes from with respect to a land transaction he 's entitled to expect that the lawyer investigates the state of entitlement to arrange the matter and to explain to the trial exactly what that is , what it is that is portrayed by the state of the title . |
| 9 | The official reason given for the committee 's demise was that it had indulged in counterrevolution and illicit dealings with foreign powers . |
| 10 | The advance word on Communion was that it wanted to deal in the uncanny again , to unsettle its audiences rather than make them laugh knowingly , yet here it was with something that belonged in a Joe Dante movie . |