Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] was [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I knew was that one afternoon while I was at the office in London someone poured petrol through my letter-box at Seaview , along with a note warning me that if I did n't get out of G.W. Fashions there would be other similarly unpleasant incidents to look forward to , and that next time the petrol would be accompanied by a lighted rag . ’ |
| 2 | The first striking feature of the collaboration we observed was that most of it was associated with individual rather than shared tasks . |
| 3 | One technique they used was that each individual crafted by himself a new conversation to help the writer of the episode . |
| 4 | What happened was that each of the documents comprising the abstract were listed on large abstract sheets , and a special form of shorthand was devised in order to prevent the need for each of the deeds and documents to be set out in full . |
| 5 | But , during the course of the recession I think what happened was that most companies stopped keeping stocks did n't they ? |
| 6 | Now what happened was that these particles had very peculiar K properties . |