Example sentences of "[was/were] that [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , a recurrent theme among these women was that they felt they had no right to benefit , that they were getting something for nothing , in marked contrast to a wage . |
| 2 | All that those LA police offices had to say to get acquitted of beating Rodney King was that they believed he had been using PCP . |
| 3 | These courses , designed to provide this information , were over-subscribed and the feedback from those who attended was that they wished they had been available earlier . |
| 4 | ‘ They used their failure to get sponsorship as an excuse to get out , ’ says Mario with understandable bitterness , and what hurt him most was that they strung him along until well into 1976 , despite the fact that he could easily have had another drive . |
| 5 | The impression we got was that they thought it was pretty much his own fault . |
| 6 | The thing that worried Nigel most about his son 's affairs was that they made him feel randy . |
| 7 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 8 | 15% said they were badly affected — and of those , roughly one half said their main problem was that they found it difficult to pick up their usual programmes on LW . |
| 9 | The upshot of it all was that they wanted me to ask Derek would he come in for a sperm count . |
| 10 | This is no doubt why much the commonest comment made about credit cards in the main 1979 survey ( by nearly half those questioned ) was that they encourage you to spend too much ; it was also the commonest comment made about stores accounts . |
| 11 | You know they do But anyway the point I was making was that they call it distant intimacy . |
| 12 | But I was in a foul temper , and Rebecca had n't made it any easier by going on about missing papers , and how urgent it was that we had them back . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The analysts finally said that what we were doing was not the problem — the problem was that we made it look as though the truth was being dragged out of us . |
| 14 | And with Rentakil , and if you remember at that time , as he rightly said last night the idea of going with Rentakil , was that we thought they were a reputable firm , |
| 15 | Er at the last conference er both Kerry and myself buttonholed him er and proposed that we er push it a bit further and er the re upshot of that was that we wrote him a much more detailed letter er on whatever date it was , er first of November ninety three , and we 've now had a er a reply er to that er giving us carte blanche to quote him er w with er a number of er quotations which we 'd drafted and put into his mouth , so er a all the quotations that we 've asked him to approve we can use . |
| 16 | She did n't know ; all she knew was that she adored him more than before and she wanted him more desperately , therefore inevitably she was going to be more hurt than the first time . |
| 17 | The strange thing was that she knew it was Ernest 's bell , the bell she had tactfully told him would be unsuitable for the kind of school he had in mind . |
| 18 | There was n't a spare bed , for a start — but the main thing was that she knew it would annoy Alan . |
| 19 | Now , when Paul told her the truth , her first thought was that she wished she had got herself an extra gown , while she was at it ; in fact she had been unable conveniently to carry any more , or would have done so . |
| 20 | That he had to pass fairly close to her made Jenna 's heart beat alarmingly and all she could think was that she wished she had phoned and spared herself this . |
| 21 | The only difference was that she understood him now . |
| 22 | The first thing Maxine said to me when she entered my consulting room was that she hoped she was not wasting my time and she was sorry she was being so stupid . |
| 23 | The very reason she had applied to the shipping company for a job was that she felt she needed a complete break , a change of scene . |
| 24 | The only difference her success made was that she thought her an incompetent fool who was lucky enough to make a bit of money . ’ |
| 25 | She should move away , or at least sit forward , but the horrifying part was that she liked it . |
| 26 | There was no laughter now , no mockery , and she went still , wondering how to answer the question , how to explain that the reason was that she loved him . |
| 27 | The incredible thing was that she guessed he had no idea of the impact he made , or simply did n't care . |
| 28 | Her biggest regret was that she found it necessary to keep its existence from David . |
| 29 | All she knew was that she wanted him out of her flat — and out of her life — before he managed to do any more harm . |
| 30 | What she was sure of , though , was that she wanted him with every fibre of her being . |