Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] that she [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was enough that she had to work with him . |
| 2 | It was merely that she had learned from her life with him that , like many married women , she did n't really need a husband . |
| 3 | Although she continued to knit , and sat upright , it was thus that she felt herself ; and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures . |
| 4 | It was just that she knew that there was something seriously wrong with her — something far more dramatic than a grumbling appendix or the normal after-effects of an operation . |
| 5 | It was just that she became — tiresome , really , she was so dinging . |
| 6 | She was n't a bad wife or anything like that , it was just that she 'd met this man at work , where she worked , they both worked at a dry cleaning place . |
| 7 | It was n't that she felt left out — ‘ in fairness , they had said to me that I could go out with them anytime , but it 's a really grotty place , and I also did n't want them to feel I was a hanger-on ’ — it was just that she had nowhere else to go . |
| 8 | It was just that she had been too much in love at the time to see it . |
| 9 | It was n't that she had n't been talking to Mandy , it was just that she had let her displeasure over that application be felt for an entire week now . |
| 10 | So far , Marie had lasted longer than either of them : it was n't that she was better at her job than they were , it was just that she did n't expect so much of people . |
| 11 | It was just that she did n't lie , to herself or others , about what they were . |
| 12 | When she was n't explaining that she and the libbers were on the same side really , Mrs Travers took pains to point out that FAMILY had no quarrel with the poor or socially inadequate ; it was just that she wanted to pay tribute to the unsung millions of women ( and men ) who lived normal lives , did not swap roles , get divorces or abortions , become homeless or batter their children ( or their wives ) ; people who faced misfortune with re-sourcefulness and courage and without recourse to public funds . |
| 13 | It was just that she loved Eve as much as any mother could love a daughter . |
| 14 | It was just that she disliked Julius 's secretary so very much . |
| 15 | For Laura , work had now become an end in itself ; although some of her colleagues began to describe her as a workaholic it was more that she found working a pleasurable state . |
| 16 | I think it was more that she wanted to get rid of Wyatt . |
| 17 | It was now that she gained her reputation for eccentricity . |
| 18 | It was now that she started a canteen , run by a mother of eight , Gwenny Hughes . |
| 19 | It was then that she noticed a tall blond man busy coaching some young local boys in football . |
| 20 | It was then that she noticed how gravely and interestedly he was looking at her , had looked at her ever since they met outside the shop . |
| 21 | It was then that she noticed the slightly deeper-coloured patch on the wall behind him . |
| 22 | It was then that she reflected how complicated a process it was , this travelling by tube . |
| 23 | It was then that she discovered that the balsa-wood screens which formed the walls could be folded open . |
| 24 | It was then that she began to really drift from University life . |
| 25 | It was then that she told me about the hysterectomy . ’ |
| 26 | And it was then that she saw Christie Goldsborough coming towards her along the path , his spectacular , fur-lined driving-cape swinging loose around his shoulders , his feet encased in the finest quality leather , his carriage — a shiny , high-perch sporting phaeton — waiting for him just there , in the road beyond the church wall , whenever he had a mind to take the reins in his gloved hands and go dashing off to drink champagne and eat bride-cake at Frizingley Hall . |
| 27 | It was then that she saw a soft glow of light in Helen 's bedroom . |
| 28 | It was then that she read Angela Kunze 's manifesto , written in blue on a long ribbon of paper above her head where she rests against the wall : ‘ I am fasting to cleanse myself of fear and hopelessness , hate and violence , impatience and the lust for novelty . |
| 29 | It was then that she realised her own power and made an instant resolve never to abuse it . |
| 30 | It was then that she looked into his eyes and went cold with shock . |