Example sentences of "was [adv] [that] [pers pn] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you won , Ragu , and in retrospect I think it was right that you did . |
| 2 | We made two hundred and forty five pounds on Thriller of the Year one hundred and nineteen pounds on Tea for Two but that is after we 've made the three hundred pounds donation to Whiston Hospital we made a thousand and eighteen pounds on the panto Wuthering Heights we lost four hundred and nine pounds , but that was basically that we do costume plays and have to hire the erm fixtures and set pieces from Wrightsons or wherever we 're always going to be in this position and I think it 's the tradition of the Garrick that we continue to do them , and I think we have to accept that we may have losses in future on those particular erm things . |
| 3 | She burst into tears and said she had not meant to criticize me ; it was just that we did n't love her , nobody did , and she had only her ‘ things ’ to care for now . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was just that she did n't lie , to herself or others , about what they were . |
| 6 | It was not that they did n't know about the brain . |
| 7 | It was not that I did not love her . |
| 8 | The answer she gave was not that she did n't know Mr Lawson 's stated reason for resigning , but that she found it incomprehensible . |
| 9 | He said that one of their reasons for lying was probably that they did not want to be publicly associated with the Carpenter Club . |
| 10 | As Institute president Ian Plaistowe said very wisely in his letter to the Financial Times , we should work towards recording similar events in similar ways ; my point was simply that we do not want to record different things in similar ways , and that is where judgment will come in : for example , some securitisations are valid , others not . |
| 11 | It was n't that we did n't get on , we did — surprisingly well , in fact . |
| 12 | It was n't that he did n't like women , you understand , he simply stayed faithful to one who was dead . |
| 13 | that 's another story with a an unusual ending cos I 'd have thought when you were saying that he was n't that he did n't give them the |
| 14 | Israel 's great sin was n't that it did not do good things — but that it did not obey the Law , the Torah . |
| 15 | It was n't that she did n't love them — or want to — she just could n't . |