Example sentences of "was that i [verb] in " 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 | One of the reasons I managed to improve so quickly was that I practised in flat water with a steady wind . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | What I did know was that I discerned in the detail the cynical hand of the practising hack . |