Example sentences of "be [adv] that [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If scio was not thought adequate at classical law , the reason can be only that it did not make sufficiently clear that the testator intended a trustee to be legally obliged to make property over to a beneficiary . |
| 2 | I did n't want to quarrel in front of Flora — it seemed humiliating over something so small — so I said , ‘ Well , it 's just that they seemed so happy and fond of each other . |
| 3 | It 's just that we went down there . |
| 4 | It 's just that we did n't know that I did n't hear what she said . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's just that she did n't have any life . ’ |
| 6 | It 's just that she did n't succeed . |
| 7 | It 's just that I got so involved with what was going on that I completely forgot ! |
| 8 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
| 9 | The lyrics , 2 , are unmistakably Prince , all 2s and 4s and Us , with a sentiment similar to Janet Jackson 's AIDS generation love song ‘ Let's Wait Awhile ’ — ‘ it 's just that I did n't think our first date should be in bed ’ . |
| 10 | The lyrics , 2 , are unmistakably Prince , all 2s and 4s and Us , with a sentiment similar to Janet Jackson 's AIDS generation love song ‘ Let's Wait Awhile ’ — ‘ it 's just that I did n't think our first date should be in bed ’ . |
| 11 | She felt she had Roirbak and Malamute in a corner : it was just that they had n't yet looked over their shoulders to see the walls closing in behind them . |
| 12 | It was just that we had so little in common . |
| 13 | She burst into tears and said she had not meant to criticize me ; it was just that we did n't love her , nobody did , and she had only her ‘ things ’ to care for now . |
| 14 | It was n't that she felt left out — ‘ in fairness , they had said to me that I could go out with them anytime , but it 's a really grotty place , and I also did n't want them to feel I was a hanger-on ’ — it was just that she had nowhere else to go . |
| 15 | So far , Marie had lasted longer than either of them : it was n't that she was better at her job than they were , it was just that she did n't expect so much of people . |
| 16 | It was just that she did n't lie , to herself or others , about what they were . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was just that he had already made other plans . |
| 18 | the idea was there and the structure and everything was there it was just that you had n't actually explained what you had to do first , you know , to come back with the erm recommendations erm but you did , you did get the date confirmed to come back for the second appointment which was good . |
| 19 | ‘ It was just that you seemed so interested in my being one of the survivors that I got quite the wrong initial impression . ’ |
| 20 | He said that one of their reasons for lying was probably that they did not want to be publicly associated with the Carpenter Club . |
| 21 | This was notwithstanding that he had not found the relationship between the bank and the husband to be one of principal and agent . |
| 22 | I mean we noticed that with the referrals and everything but it was purely that you had n't got down to that point to ask for them . |
| 23 | Perhaps it was simply that he had not spoken very well , being new to it , and they felt that he was not up to their fine ways ? |
| 24 | It was here that it had all started , she thought . |
| 25 | It was then that we took on the giants of the Premier Division , Clutton Town , in the FA Cup . |
| 26 | It was then that they scooped out for the storage of goods the extensive vaults and cellaring that still run beneath the old town today . |
| 27 | Edouard heard it too , and it was then that he became almost certain that the dropping of the cup had been no accident . |
| 28 | ‘ It was then that I made up my mind that r would never leave England , ’ declares Lotte Bray ( Lowenstein ) . |
| 29 | It was then that I became fully aware of how your personality is really at stake . |
| 30 | Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice . |