Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 2 | The only thing that stopped him was that he could n't decide exactly what the problem was . |
| 3 | The thing that attracted me was that it was n't your average plonk , plonk , three cord amateur musician . |
| 4 | All that amazed her was that he had not expected that . |
| 5 | I knew perfectly well that he respected the Manager and even liked him though it was against his nature to admit it ; the thing that maddened him was that this had happened behind his back , and for a reason which he obviously found as inadequate as I did . |
| 6 | The main thing that surprised me was that the biomorphs can pretty quickly cease to look like trees . |
| 7 | The only thing that worried me was that the door to my room had not yet been unlocked . |
| 8 | The main thoughts that worried you were that you were either having a heart attack or that you 'd pass out in front of your colleagues … . |
| 9 | Everything about it exceeded expectation , though one of the things that struck him was that while the fairways are wide , the hitting area is in fact very narrow if there is to be a chance of attacking the flagsticks . |