Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Emerson demonstrated was that her younger children had difficulty in using the causal connective as a clue to the temporal order of the events described . |
| 2 | Or the jurors could have taken the path they did in fact elect , which was to go to the very heart of the matter and conclude that these officers were only doing what they have been trained to do and that all the famous video footage demonstrated was that they had indeed gone by the book . |
| 3 | What he never doubted was that she was listening . |
| 4 | A second approach Bush mentioned was that he would meet the 150 or so new House of Representatives members before they become captives of the leadership or the lobbyists . |
| 5 | However , what offended was that you lumped Ipswich in with Norwich in ‘ ten recent Norwich releases you should own ’ . |
| 6 | The only disadvantage of this method of study he found was that he was never able to master the Biblical languages of Greek and Hebrew . |
| 7 | Once he had hit her so hard when she would n't tell him where she 'd been that she had had concussion . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , the first thing I noticed is that it omits the date of birth . |
| 9 | What I suppose I imagined was that it would all be plain sailing from the moment we set eyes on each other . ’ |
| 10 | The thing I noticed was that they 're all close questions , you like the area , now Martin was very fair to you because you , he was very me most you could 've got very much did you move because of your , yes . |
| 11 | The first thing he noticed was that there was no dust . |
| 12 | so I was n't quite sure of the answer that you gave back with me walking back from the camera so I just wanted to qualify that so that , I mean all that I noticed was that there was nothing that , that , no information that you tried to get out of him . |
| 13 | Erm the , the other thing I noticed was that there is very little or no eye contact at all with Martin so you , you were never really looking at him when you were asking questions or when he was giving you the answers back , so there was no er visual acknowledgement whenever he was , he was coming back to you . |
| 14 | Most people thought he looked like a tramp with his habit of tying his trousers up with string , but the first thing that all the dancers noticed was that he had big , flat feet . |
| 15 | When Cain made his feelings known , the only explanation he received was that he had to master his sin before God would be impressed with him . |
| 16 | Now of course what happened is that we claimed , we w went to the insurance and then they took they got a list of what was damaged and we replaced it for what he 'd lost er exactly . |
| 17 | What actually happened is that my Group said simply that our proposals for 11 to 16 year olds were built on our work for the primary stages , and that it would be absurd for us to bring out our second Report if its proposals were out of tune with the earlier attainment targets . |
| 18 | ‘ All that happened is that I over-reacted , ’ he said at last , after a very long pause . |
| 19 | The first thing to say about what happened is that it was Dennis 's idea from the start . |
| 20 | Opting out of schools , opting out of the N H S and trying to opt out of Europe , but what you forgot is that your leader signed a document that says you ca n't opt out of Europe . |
| 21 | What actually happened was that they would disappear before you got there . |
| 22 | What happened was that we began to do all kinds of things that are normally done to support a tour that you farm out , but we used to do it in-house , so we had our own publicity department , our own travel department — we booked our own flights and our own hotels , we did n't use a travel agency . |
| 23 | Kingsley Amis , who wrote an adventure for Bond as well as creating Jim Dixon , reflects aptly on the reasons for his : ‘ What happened was that we came in at the tail end of the literary tradition to the effect that no decent girl enjoys sex — only tarts were supposed to do that . |
| 24 | What happened was that we returned to our roots . |
| 25 | Because you know money-wise because we were not content to sit back and see er schemes being introduced that , which were going to act as a deterrent to er our members er being able to earn wages er on incentives and so therefore erm what happened was that we agreed that the consultants er head personnel manager would come down and talk to each group of people who were being put on to the incentive scheme , one , in order that he go over everything with them in regard to its application , and two , then answer any practical questions er where our members may find that there could be difficulties . |
| 26 | Now , erm , the situation there was that my vicar came to see me and , erm , what happened was that we 've got three churches well luckily , one of them only has about twelve in it another has eighty and another sixty and he said well what did he do about Rushdie ? |
| 27 | What happened was that we allowed our critics to feed in information about prisons which was to our detriment . |
| 28 | All that happened was that her sexual needs became painful instead of grumbling and Alexander became unreal in her mind in a bad way . |
| 29 | What happened was that I mean you made curtains er the rusty red was affected by light , so eventually you got a curtain where where the red spots had been there were holes . |
| 30 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |