Example sentences of "that [was/were] one [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She never had been when he was ill ; that was one of the things he disliked about her — unwomanly , he called it . |
| 2 | ‘ That was one of the things , ’ he says . |
| 3 | That was one of the things with black and white , the shadows , the dimension that you can get . |
| 4 | That was one of the things I liked about him . |
| 5 | He could n't give a damn about anybody — that was one of the things that was so attractive about him . |
| 6 | As well as how to unpick a faded coat or dress and sew it up again inside out , that was one of the things mrs so and so suggested . |
| 7 | That was one of the things we did not know . |
| 8 | No , I mean , strangely enough that was one of the things that almost put me off the relationship in the first place because I 'd never had any desire to be a mother . |
| 9 | But er that was one of the things er he kep it was an enjoyable trip and the roads were in these days , er you get the motorways today , I just think on the roads , what they were in these days , there was even some places we went through a ford in the middle of the road , with the water about two or three inches deep . |
| 10 | You could get er pineapple jam , that was i tins of pineapple jam , that was one of the things . |
| 11 | Maybe that was one of the things that she found so endearing . |
| 12 | My darling , that was one of the things I found so bloody irresistible about you . |
| 13 | stuff I was listening to this morning I do n't whether that was one of the things but she 's certainly looking at areas like that . |
| 14 | Electric immersion heater , er , ah , oh of course we had an Ideal boiler under there and it , that 's what heated this kitchen actually an Ideal boiler and it heated the water in the winter and also heated the , and in the summer we let that out and had an immersion heater , well being in the electrical trade we had an immersion heater all the time and if we wanted to top up from the boiler we used to just put the immersion heater on for a erm week or so and get hot water and then let it go off in the winter time , you know , but er we have n't made a great deal of alteration to this place really , we 've put a new front door on fairly recently , that was one of the things that er was very ugly , they , the back of the front of the doors to look at , ooh they were ugly doors |
| 15 | Cos that was one of the things we talked about |
| 16 | and certainly from the , the first meeting that we had , which is only a month ago , that was one of the things , one , one of the outcomes |
| 17 | That was one of the reasons he liked living out at Little Knoll , so he could have his own life , his own place that none of them at school knew about . |
| 18 | Perhaps that was one of the reasons which prompted my father to teach me to read , and so divert me from my inexorable pursuit of my mother . |
| 19 | Jasper had complained , had got chilblains , but even he had put up with it ; yet that was one of the reasons why he had been pleased to move in to live with her mother 's warmth , after a cold winter . |
| 20 | Well that was one of the reasons for doing |
| 21 | That was the trouble with Mrs Flaherty , you could n't trust her not to say the wrong thing in company , that was one of the reasons why she was the Wrong Element . |
| 22 | That was one of the reasons she loved him , but she could n't go on doing it indefinitely — swearing that this time he had gone too far and it was the end and then having to console him . |
| 23 | ‘ That was one of the reasons , ’ admitted Sam . |
| 24 | That was one of the reasons why , when we set up Headline , I called myself sales and publicity director , as opposed to marketing director , because I wanted to make it perfectly clear that we were a combined department . |
| 25 | The oil mingled with the warm salty water which leaked from places in the ceilings , and that was one of the reasons they had asked for some sort of banister rail to hold on to in the narrow winding-stair . |
| 26 | He knew that that was one of the reasons why he went to see George Birkitt first on his back-stage round at the ‘ half ’ . |
| 27 | So anyway that was one of the reasons , when I found that Brothers was slowly going out of business , when I saw last in , and I asked him if er I could have this thing ? |
| 28 | When I was asked to speak at my farewell party I said that I felt a Ghanaian could have done my job and that was one of the reasons I was leaving . |
| 29 | No she does n't live with us but she does live locally and that was one of the reasons for being here because it 's a little bit easier to get to her . |
| 30 | Er , an and as I say , that was that was one of the reasons |