Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] was [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the enormity of what he was doing got to him — the difference , perhaps between hardened professional and gifted amateur — or perhaps it was simply that the holes became too tough for him . |
| 2 | Youthful confidence , I suppose , or perhaps it was simply that I felt I had no alternative , there was nothing else I could do . ’ |
| 3 | Perhaps it was simply that he had not spoken very well , being new to it , and they felt that he was not up to their fine ways ? |
| 4 | Glancing from beneath her lashes , Lindsey studied his profile , and found it unnerving , or perhaps it was simply that the confining space of the small car did n't allow much distance between driver and passenger . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was here that ogres and giants used to lure their victims . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was just that Gildas was closest , he understood most , and although their friendship was impregnable , they could still hurt each other . |
| 7 | Perhaps he could n't bear to , perhaps it was just that he felt his marriage to be a private affair . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was just that he had already made other plans . |
| 9 | Perhaps it was only that the hot climb had tired her but it seemed more than that . |
| 10 | Perhaps it was there that Roger was born or brought up . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was more that she just wanted to be somewhere else . |
| 12 | Perhaps it was now that he appointed Ebroin , himself an able military leader , to be his archchaplain . |
| 13 | That 's only because you 're looking at it in a very short- term perspective , they , the way they saw the communist revolution was by a very long drawn out process and so it was n't that the revolution had just created this was , this was an important step in order to lead to their ultimate goal . |
| 14 | So it was advisedly that the terms of reference excluded the public sector . |
| 15 | No it was just it was just that he , he , he wound you , he wound up , he said oh someone 's looking for you cos he wanted to get rid of him |
| 16 | Now it was there that we became separated , I developed a very bad throat and could not fly , just before we were ready to leave for overseas as in his crew and the other crews that were there went on whereas I got held back and of course the way I feel about it is that that week that I got held back , saved my life . |
| 17 | it was still in the sixties , they call it the swinging sixties , I mean I did n't see anything swinging in the sixties at all , I did n't think it was swinging , but er and they do n't like now the swinging sixties and I think really it was then that er people did er branch out to new ideas . |
| 18 | but it was n't it was just that he probably it was |
| 19 | If he did see it he must have begun worrying , and maybe it was then that he started feeling sick . |
| 20 | the idea was there and the structure and everything was there it was just that you had n't actually explained what you had to do first , you know , to come back with the erm recommendations erm but you did , you did get the date confirmed to come back for the second appointment which was good . |
| 21 | Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice . |
| 22 | I suppose that it was filmed where it was so that she 'll be in it . |
| 23 | If he needed to be questioned again it was right that it should be at home and with his parents present . |