Example sentences of "be [adv] that [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is how it would often be now that she had cast off in her own little ship of independence . |
| 2 | Firstly , nobody , but nobody would want to levy charges until it was a last resort , but if the alternative to levying those charges were perhaps that we had to cut the staffing levels in those adult training centres , then you get a different answer to the question , and I had a meeting about four weeks ago with the heads of some of our centres who 've been asking parents and carers that question . |
| 3 | ‘ It is not that he had abandoned or qualified his commitment to the principle of non-violence ’ . |
| 4 | It 's just that he wanted to see Jenny in front of everyone else . |
| 5 | Well , it 's just that I 'd heard … ’ |
| 6 | It 's just that I needed to get in touch with my feelings . ’ |
| 7 | I know , it 's just that I remembered picking milk up this morning to make Maggie a drink , and there did n't seem a lot so I thought I must remember |
| 8 | I do n't want to do something just for the sake of it , I do n't really care about being on the Council , it 's just that I wanted to do something about those wretched caravans . |
| 9 | I just … . it 's just that I wanted to tell her how sorry I am about … about what happened to your father and brother but , not knowing her , I did n't want to say it in a way that might upset her . |
| 10 | Because of this she never had any time for her own parents : my mother could n't think it was right that they 'd parted with two of their children . ’ |
| 11 | It was enough that she had to work with him . |
| 12 | It was merely that she had learned from her life with him that , like many married women , she did n't really need a husband . |
| 13 | She was n't a bad wife or anything like that , it was just that she 'd met this man at work , where she worked , they both worked at a dry cleaning place . |
| 14 | It was n't that she had n't been talking to Mandy , it was just that she had let her displeasure over that application be felt for an entire week now . |
| 15 | When she was n't explaining that she and the libbers were on the same side really , Mrs Travers took pains to point out that FAMILY had no quarrel with the poor or socially inadequate ; it was just that she wanted to pay tribute to the unsung millions of women ( and men ) who lived normal lives , did not swap roles , get divorces or abortions , become homeless or batter their children ( or their wives ) ; people who faced misfortune with re-sourcefulness and courage and without recourse to public funds . |
| 16 | He had n't meant to , it was just that he had become so tired , so exhausted with the Springalls , the murders , the deceit and the lies . |
| 17 | It was n't that I was being purposely unfriendly , it was just that I had decided that my best chance of survival lay in my being as unobtrusive as possible . |
| 18 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |
| 19 | Indeed I am rather coming round to the view that the trouble last year was not that we failed to produce as good policies as our opponents but that we failed to produce policies for the issues the electorate was most interested in . |
| 20 | It was not that I had abandoned the political book : it was that the mounting gravity of current events had turned my interests from theory to practice . |
| 21 | It was not that she had signed under some induced misapprehension as to the nature or character of what she was signing . |
| 22 | It was not that she wanted to kill Simon any more . |
| 23 | It was not that he had found the one secret place where the Author could not see him . |
| 24 | For Laura , work had now become an end in itself ; although some of her colleagues began to describe her as a workaholic it was more that she found working a pleasurable state . |
| 25 | I think it was more that she wanted to get rid of Wyatt . |
| 26 | It was simply that he had begun to fear we had arranged this with Flora : as if , in his mind , he could hear her saying , oh yes , what a splendid idea , I shall be bored with young Adam by Fez … |
| 27 | It was here that we sought to capture a record of the least-contacted tribal peoples while there was still time . |
| 28 | We reached Chelalo on the Arussi mountains in the afternoon of 5 October ; it was here that we expected to find nyala . |
| 29 | It was here that he had become a doorman before going on to live in England . |
| 30 | Mr Gillis had stuck a plastic hook near the top of this door on the inside and it was here that he chose to hang his white trilby . |