Example sentences of "was that [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she was sure of , though , was that she wanted him with every fibre of her being . |
| 2 | That was how she described it to herself , although what it really meant was that he took her to bed whenever he felt like it and occasionally gave her an absent-minded smile backstage . |
| 3 | I have been thinking about my nearly twenty years friendship with him and especially what it was that he gave me in terms of belief and understanding of the job . |
| 4 | It has been suggested that the real reason Judas betrayed Jesus was that he wanted him to be a popular Messiah who would drive out the Romans . |
| 5 | So Rob 's instruction was that he put them in those files and I did n't think it was a particularly good idea because everything 's easier to find if it 's in the envelopes that we 've put them in . |
| 6 | And I fancy that erm a large part of his animus against latterday Oxford philosophy was that he suspected it of covert idealism , erm a preoccupation simply with the knowing mind , insufficient attention to the facts of the world as presented by science . |
| 7 | The trouble with winning , she explained , was that it left her with bad memories rather than good . |
| 8 | Perhaps the most important element in Florey 's brief occupation of the Sheffield chair was that it brought him into close contact with Edward Mellanby ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 9 | Chemistry had also had symbols , but the problem was that it had them in profusion . |
| 10 | The only advantage of illness , as far as Eliot was concerned , was that it released him from the general round of works and days — it was , he used to say , his body 's way of telling him to stop — and during periods of ill health such as this one he seemed better able to write . |
| 11 | Another greatly pleasurable result of the broadcast was that it put me in touch with colleagues of his , and their wives , in the lighthouse business , several of whom wrote me the kindest letters expressing the most heart-warming comments . |