Example sentences of "[was/were] that i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the important thing was that I just wanted to be free . ’ |
| 2 | The fact was that I just did n't know . |
| 3 | All I knew by then was that I just did n't want change . ’ |
| 4 | The psychiatrist 's theory was that I simply had to come to realise that becoming a ‘ complete man ’ ( which presumably included being heterosexual ) would not involve any risk to life or , more importantly , limb , that I was a ‘ complete man ’ . |
| 5 | About the only practical thing I came up with was that I probably ought to start smoking again . |
| 6 | The immediate outcome was that I now had someone to take me around , and I used to brag a bit about ‘ my ’ Corporal . |
| 7 | When I was , shall we say , inducted into the SS , the deal was that I only operated against the Russians . |
| 8 | The only disappointment was that I never did see them feeding , for I could have learned such a lot in those short but interesting hours . |
| 9 | My great regret was that I never recorded with Busch . |
| 10 | That parallel world really exists , and what happened to me in 1978 was that I unwittingly blundered into it . ’ |
| 11 | There it was that I really began to read . |
| 12 | My other main concern was that I really felt that I would not be able to do my job any more once I went back . |
| 13 | Only this time the difference was that I really cared — it was n't just hurt pride . ’ |
| 14 | I do n't know whether David would agree , but my experience as a teacher was that I certainly encountered , I realize now , in my teaching career , children with dyslexia and yet no-one had told me , in my training , anything about this condition and I do n't think I was in a position until later , in a sense , to recognise that I had seen children with this difficulty . |
| 15 | The problem was that I still had a Jamaican passport and to run in a major meeting like that it was necessary to become a British subject . |