Example sentences of "[was/were] that i [verb] [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 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
| 7 | I chose residential care and so it was that I came to Le Court In September 1977 . |
| 8 | I tried to explain why it was that I went into the bushes , tried to make it sound reasonable . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One of the reasons I managed to improve so quickly was that I practised in flat water with a steady wind . |
| 11 | ‘ But why I mentioned her was that I heard by chance that she has married again . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What I did know was that I discerned in the detail the cynical hand of the practising hack . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |