Example sentences of "[art] thing was that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now , you see , the thing was that we could see Boy walking into our bar , pausing in the doorway , and we could just say the line and laugh . |
| 2 | In B Division , the discipline was about the worst in the force — the thing was that it was not a bad pay-packet plus there was the pension at the end — a big item . |
| 3 | The thing was that her records , though initially aimed at a black music market , sold equally well to whites , who loved the risqué nature of the blues . |
| 4 | Er and that was the system and of course the thing was that with the riveters being on piece work , apart from negotiating a wage , you were negotiating what was known as a price list , and er whereas you would get X amounts of shillings or pounds for so many hundred rivets , or whatever it was , then the argument would be that that price should be upped because of the the cost of living going up , or whatever you know . |
| 5 | You know , I think the thing was that he was out of date , and by the time he wrote the second book he knew it . |
| 6 | But th the thing was that there was a mess room outside the fitting shop actually , but there was n't much room there because er men from other jobs , er they p from outside , used to go there and eat . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , well , the thing was that — I mean , I could n't see clearly — but I reckon those two had European clothes on underneath their tobs . |
| 8 | I mean the other assumption that I did n't make until we were well into the thing was that this , the , the Friends Provident policy is actually the mortgage policy |