Example sentences of "[be] that i [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It was my idea as much as Jeff 's that I went with him . ’
2 One question , and that is that I noticed on page three , er , you 've got your revised estimate with effect in ninety four , five , you 've got nothing .
3 He told TODAY soon after the tragedy : ‘ My only crime is that I fell in love with another girl . ’
4 ‘ The important thing is that I got in a couple of block tackles , which was significant .
5 One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something .
6 That was the one thing that was that I read in the books that it was kind of tradition for the men to wear black .
7 So it was that I lay in honeycombs of tiny compartments , stacked into loose piles and sheaves with onion-skin leaves of paper .
8 The result of all this was that I returned to Europe and settled in Paris with her .
9 What really struck me was that I looked like a concentration camp prisoner .
10 I chose residential care and so it was that I came to Le Court In September 1977 .
11 I tried to explain why it was that I went into the bushes , tried to make it sound reasonable . ’
12 We had a succession of God-awful nannies we could n't afford — Clemence 's books had n't started to sell at that point — but the upshot was that I left for work late , came home early .
13 One of the reasons I managed to improve so quickly was that I practised in flat water with a steady wind .
14 ‘ But why I mentioned her was that I heard by chance that she has married again . ’
15 The only curious thing was that I found in my room a handbill from a Frenchman trying to solicit backers to export parchment to France and import wine into England .
16 What I did know was that I discerned in the detail the cynical hand of the practising hack .
17 so it was n't the fact I was trying to lose too much speed , it was that I changed into first and did n't have
18 I think the other thing was that I wanted to be known as a musician rather than some other phenomenon other than a musician and I think that also had an effect on me too .
19 Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over .
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