Example sentences of "[was/were] [that] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second element was that I had just started working at the London School of Economics in October 1970 , which was exactly the same time as GLF started meeting there and LSE was in one of its periods of turmoil which involved me as someone working on the staff and excited me politically . |
| 2 | The thought uppermost in my mind was that I had always wondered how young horses felt when I knocked wolf teeth out of them . |
| 3 | ‘ I think my trouble was that I had too much help and felt as if my boobs were all anyone was interested in . |
| 4 | I suppose the problem was that I had never been told about it officially — that is , by an adult — and so I had somehow blocked off the information , not connecting it with myself , with my own body . |
| 5 | In fact , barn owls are reckoned to be one of the hardest breeds to hand-rear and train , and they are n't recommended for beginners — though I did n't know that then , What I did know was that I 'd probably lost the battle with this owl before I 'd started : I suspected he would be impossible to train , but I was so hooked on the idea of having my own bird that I could hardly drag myself away when I was looking at him . |
| 6 | Laing was at pains to stress that at no time did he feel under pressure : ‘ It was that I 'd never been caught before and I did n't know what to do . |
| 7 | He found himself walking through Denver Airport one day with a hollowed-out Brazilian hand-grenade fitted with a Zippo lighter , a present from Singlaub to Calero : ‘ one of the scary things was that I walked right through … and I never set off the alarms . ’ |