Example sentences of "[conj] that [pron] was [pron] " in BNC.

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1 She did n't care what she said , or that he was who he was .
2 Later , when I was more familiar with the beliefs and practices of the movement and had ‘ learned the language ’ , I would interact with the Moonies as though I were one of them , and , although I never pretended that I accepted their beliefs or that I was anything other than a sociologist studying the movement , members who did not know me would mistake me for a member — the Moonies themselves were no longer ‘ translating ’ for me when we were interacting .
3 It had all been an enjoyable game , and she had always imagined that love would be an enjoyable game as well , except that there was nothing enjoyable about the pain eating away at her .
4 For no special reason except that it was something new to show him and it avoided the long grind out to the airport the brief shuttle flight and another cab queue .
5 He had guessed than that it was his mother — with Senga in tow — heading off to ten o'clock Mass in the nearby church .
6 ‘ I can only draw from this fact that the Careers Service did not destroy their copies of the incorrect documents and that it was theirs that was passed to the county councillors and Dr Ashok Kumar ( the Labour candidate for Langbaurgh ) , ’ says the statement .
7 He said that it did not matter how the £3. 1 million was acquired and that it was what the company did with the money that mattered .
8 So why was it and how come that Madame was claiming that the opposite was true and that it was her father who was the person out of favour ?
9 But it came too late for him to do anything about it , for when he straightened up and turned towards the bank the bullet hit him in the chest and his body seemed to disintegrate and fly in all directions , and he knew that death was on him and that it was something that divided you into a million parts and each fragment screamed as it flung itself into eternity .
10 In Coventry , Salmon is reported to have committed ‘ wicked Swearing , and uncleaness , which he justified and others of his way , That it was God which did swear in them , and that it was their liberty to keep company with Women , for their Lust ’ .
11 I remember Geoff telling me this , tears streaming down his face , marvelling at how it was his children who had the strength to carry on , and that it was they who had this practical , yet profound way of reaching to the heart of the matter .
12 No I was n't so much disappointed as that I was disappointed that there was only five would be sponsors and that it was we had to give out
13 There was no question but that Jean-Claude wanted to be a success and that it was my job to bring this about .
14 He told them that he was answerable to Parliament alone when he made decisions and that it was his duty to take into account the wider interests of the public .
15 He had informed his silent audience of the death — just ‘ death ’ — of Dr Kemp ; explained that in order to establish the , er , totality of events , it would be necessary for everyone to complete a little questionnaire ( duly distributed ) , sign and date it , and hand it in to Sergeant Lewis ; that the departure of the coach would have to be postponed until late afternoon , perhaps , with lunch by courtesy of The Randolph ; that Mr Cedric Downes had volunteered to fix something up for that morning , from about 10.45 to 12.15 ; that ( in Morse 's opinion ) activity was a splendid antidote to adversity , and that it was his hope that all the group would avail themselves of Mr Downes 's kind offer ; that if they could all think back to the previous day 's events and try to recall anything , however seemingly insignificant , that might have appeared unusual , surprising , out-of-character — well , that was often just the sort of thing that got criminal cases solved .
16 Another suggests that Dom Pérignon spent several years in the Benedictine monastery at Alcántara in Spain and that it was he , not the monks of Santiago de Compostela , who brought the cork to Hautvillers .
17 It was just his bad luck that the village of Pontino lay just within that border and that it was he , and not some Sienese colleague who had been awakened at dawn .
18 It do n't look very clear when you look at it , but the sun and that it was it were n't half hot that day .
19 He thought that she must be feeling a great deal of pain , and that there was nothing he could do about it , and that , if his suspicions were correct , her pain would get a great deal worse …
20 I feel like that the situation in which Carrington was in is what God does and that I 'm part of that situation , and that he was going to die , and that there was nothing I could do about it .
21 I could see he was going to be unhappy about it for a long time , and that there was nothing I could do about it .
22 It was n't until a physiotherapist found a vertical tear in the hamstring that they had to admit I was injured and that there was nothing wrong with my motivation .
23 I gathered , however , that they expected it to continue to get worse and that there was nothing they could do except give me vitamins .
24 So it began to be asserted that this was a social service , and that there was something inherently reasonable and even laudable about subsidising the price of rented house-room — though how it could be reasonable or laudable to reduce by arbitrary and locally varying amounts the rents of an arbitrarily selected minority of families who have no common economic or other characteristic , is something which no one to this day has attempted to explain .
25 If he felt , sometimes , that he had heard too little of that interview of Primaflora 's , and that there was something of desperation now in her love-making , he did n't pursue it for once ; and even the matter of Katelina remained only as an anxiety held well in check .
26 It had already dawned on the girl that , from this moment on , she was on her own , and that there was nobody to stand between her and whatever might be devised for her in the future .
27 Still she lifted her chin slightly and tried to ignore the media attention , knowing that it was all really centred on Ace and that she was nothing more than a decorative addition to his charismatic presence .
28 Martin here would have done as much , but that I was none too secure on my feet , and he would not let me undertake the journey home alone .
29 Harvey 's group , for example , found that peeling paint in the home related to lower IQ , but that it was nothing to do with lead in the paint , relating more probably to the influence of the parents .
30 Not the entire truth , never that , but that there was something .
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