Example sentences of "truth [was/were] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth was that they were just jealous they had not thought of it before and made all of that money . |
| 2 | The truth was that they were lost , there was no smoke in sight whichever way she looked , nothing but the undulating feathery greenness of the forest and the sun rising above the trees in the east , but she wanted to conceal her uncertainty from Allen and even from herself . |
| 3 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 4 | The truth was that there was a substantial mortgage on the property which would never enable the appellant to pay compensation in the amount which he instructed his representatives to offer . |
| 5 | One of the lawyers ' wives wanted to know the secret of Ellen 's coffee , and Ellen modestly said she just followed the percolator instructions , while the truth was that she put a cupful of cheap instant coffee powder into every percolated pot . |
| 6 | The truth was that she did not especially wish to learn . |
| 7 | She felt unrested , her eyes heavy as she stared into the fire for the truth was that she had slept very little and , when she did drift off , dreams of being in Craig 's arms tormented her . |
| 8 | The truth was that she would doze now and then — ten minutes here , twenty there ; but her dreams were so vivid and so close to her conscious fears that she might as well have been awake . |
| 9 | The truth was that she did n't want Sam to be in love : not seriously in love with an older man , and the boy in the bistro was n't really a boy at all , being at least twenty-two . |
| 10 | The truth was that she was disappointed in the boy from the bistro . |
| 11 | For the truth was that she 'd been offered promotion a dozen times — in spite of the fact that when she 'd started as a trainee she 'd had no formal training , no experience , nothing to commend her but a fistful of ambition . |
| 12 | It really would be very much more practical to have her hair cut , she told herself severely for the umpteenth time , but the simple truth was that she liked having her hair long , loved the feeling of the heavy silken strands on her skin . |
| 13 | Not that it mattered , she thought ; the truth was that she did n't give a damn about herself . |
| 14 | She had no wish to hurt Anna and besides , how could she complain when the truth was that she was happier here at the palazzo than she 'd been in a long time ? |
| 15 | Though Mosley was represented to future generations as if he had been no more than a gutter politician and demagogue , the truth was that he had first attracted sympathy — if not support from many political figures who were subsequently to disown him . |
| 16 | Dizzy 's late and short-lived appearance had n't been planned entirely for effect ; the truth was that he was still fairly weak after his illness . |
| 17 | He had told Tolonen otherwise , but the truth was that he was not so sure Li Yuan was wrong . |
| 18 | The device worked exactly as DeVore had said , but the truth was that he had access only to Tongjiang , and that only because Hans Ebert had been daring enough to take the thing in , risking the possibility that an over-zealous officer might search him , Tolonen 's favourite or no . |
| 19 | The truth was that he could not bear to be so close to Chris and yet feel so distant . |
| 20 | Rachel asked suddenly as they drank black coffee , because the question had been burning on her mind for some time , and she told herself it was important strategically to find out , although she suspected the truth was that he fascinated her . |
| 21 | The plain truth was that he had n't witnessed what was going on behind him . |
| 22 | The unpalatable truth was that his absence hurt her . |
| 23 | The truth was that I did n't know how to effect such an aim , and if I found myself eating any more than the minimum — that is , enough for me to remain undetected by the authorities-I considered myself guilty of backsliding , and had to punish myself by eating even less the next day or at the next meal . |
| 24 | The truth was that I was full of a sort of green stir . |