Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [that] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told Kidsons that I did n't think it was right that I should seek re-election , which was coming up on 30 April , and left it at that . ’ |
| 2 | I thought that it was right that I should talk to you , try and build a better picture of Michael . ’ |
| 3 | I 've let you play your games , you and Joseph , and I 've said it was nothing to me , it was enough that I was a painter . |
| 4 | ‘ Another reason for setting up my workshop near here was so that I would n't lose touch with my mother . ’ |
| 5 | It was less that I was too proud , more that I was too embarrassed . |
| 6 | It was thus that I had been able to gain some sense of the sort of place Miss Kenton had gone to live her married life . |
| 7 | The contrary relation will therefore show up in a sentential context that specifies , or at least implies , that a single event is being referred to , such as I only met Mary once , and that was today/yesterday or ( somewhat less convincingly ) It was today/yesterday that I met Mary . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I suppose I fancied him although I told myself that it was just that I felt sorry for him . |
| 10 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |
| 11 | It was just that I dislike going off half-cocked , talking too much about a project before I can see where it 's leading . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It was just that I had other things on my mind . |
| 13 | ‘ It was just that I heard it call so I knew there must be one about . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It was just that I was a bit surprised at seeing you . |
| 15 | It was just that I — that one does n't know oneself — ’ |
| 16 | And she did n't really tell me , it was just that I guessed , I 'd seen them quite a few times , mooning about , and I asked her if she was going to marry him . |
| 17 | It was just that I never expected it to happen to me . ’ |
| 18 | It was just that I loved Hugo more . |
| 19 | It was just that I was longing to be your hostess . ’ |
| 20 | It was just that I and the others in the class — at least , the ones who turned up yesterday , a lot of people did n't bother — anyway , we felt it would be nice to send some flowers and a card or something to her relatives . |
| 21 | Well i it was just that I , I missed the initial question |
| 22 | Well it does n't matter really , it was just that I sort of |
| 23 | No , I , it was just that I , you know , I mean he I recognized the voice really as he spoke . |
| 24 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 25 | It was not that I did not love her . |
| 26 | In my own case it was not that I was considered pastorally unsuitable , or academically unable , which led to my being refused ordination . |
| 27 | It was not that I objected to the public baths . |
| 28 | It was not that I was so self-blind that I saw nothing to be learnt . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Now what happened was originally that I lost compression on pistons three and four and it worked out there was a very thin channel from piston three to four on the head gasket and erm basically it ruined part of the engine and the whole report said that basically I want a new engine . |