Example sentences of "was that [pron] [vb past] [pron] " 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 | The impression we got was that they thought it was pretty much his own fault . |
| 5 | The thing that worried Nigel most about his son 's affairs was that they made him feel randy . |
| 6 | The dignifying characteristic of the professions was that they had their own codes of ethics . |
| 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 | But the only difference that I see was that they pushed their ploughs there , so they must have been smaller than the ones we use . |
| 11 | The desire of biblical literalists to show that the story could have been history acted as a spur to the study of zoogeography , even though the eventual , and ironic , outcome was that they sank their own ship . |
| 12 | The important thing , though , was that they paid their admission fee before they became totally paralytic and abusive ; that seemed to be all that really mattered . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 , |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | What happened was that we allowed our critics to feed in information about prisons which was to our detriment . |
| 18 | Not much else is needed to prompt a visit than a map and some route descriptions , so thus it was that we found ourselves between the Vénéon and the Etançons on the campsite at La Bérade in August . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There was n't a spare bed , for a start — but the main thing was that she knew it would annoy Alan . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Her ‘ storyline ’ was that she nurtured her partner by allowing him to help her . |
| 25 | The only difference was that she understood him now . |
| 26 | Some of the girls had been looking forward to this as to the highlight of the trip , but Clara had been dreading it , and for a classic reason , which was that she had nothing nice to wear . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The only difference her success made was that she thought her an incompetent fool who was lucky enough to make a bit of money . ’ |
| 30 | She should move away , or at least sit forward , but the horrifying part was that she liked it . |