Example sentences of "[was/were] that i [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something .
2	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 .
3	So it was that I lay in honeycombs of tiny compartments , stacked into loose piles and sheaves with onion-skin leaves of paper .
4	The result of all this was that I returned to Europe and settled in Paris with her .
5	What really struck me was that I looked like a concentration camp prisoner .
6	I chose residential care and so it was that I came to Le Court In September 1977 .
7	I tried to explain why it was that I went into the bushes , tried to make it sound reasonable . ’
8	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 .
9	One of the reasons I managed to improve so quickly was that I practised in flat water with a steady wind .
10	‘ But why I mentioned her was that I heard by chance that she has married again . ’
11	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 .
12	What I did know was that I discerned in the detail the cynical hand of the practising hack .
13	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
14	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 .
15	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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