Example sentences of "strange thing [be] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other strange thing is that they look happy all the time . |
| 2 | The strange thing is that I ca n't say I was unhappy in the Service , and generally speaking I enjoyed myself , even coming to realise as time went by that it was an experience I would hate to have missed — and yet , for years afterwards I used to have nightmares about my life in uniform . |
| 3 | ‘ No , the strange thing is that I was the only applicant . |
| 4 | I mean what the strange thing is that I was reading about |
| 5 | ‘ The strange thing is that he has always been the soundest of horses and never taken a lame step in his life . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He says : ‘ They were rare even in Binks ’ day , but the strange thing was that there was a tradition among the people who lived up there in those days to make a ball out of clay and cover it with spring gentians . |
| 8 | The strange thing was that it did not occur to her then to follow the Way Out signs , leave the station and go out into the street where a taxi could be found . |
| 9 | The strange thing was that he spoke to everybody with a different accent . |
| 10 | The strange thing was that he derived no real enjoyment from smoking . |