Example sentences of "of [pers pn] was that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what it meant to both of them was that all the money was frozen because there was a dispute over whose money was what and how much money had been spent — that was a problem for David and for Tony . |
| 2 | One of them was that he opened his morning newspaper with an enthusiasm he had not felt for years . |
| 3 | One of them was that the nurse , robbed of her pleasure in subduing the hair , turned her savagery more directly on to Harriet and once in a temper broke both of her charge 's thumbs when she was forcing her into a new pair of white kid gloves for Sunday School . |
| 4 | He could n't manage it and he said that he felt that he had to stop being an MP er for several reasons , one of them was that he thought most MPs like he agreed he was at certain times , were out of touch . |
| 5 | What 's a good answer to that because I found a lot of people , we had that actually on our and one of them was that she . |
| 6 | A more revolutionary proposal of his was that England players should train together regularly , an idea derived from his visit to Holland , where the national players came together for coaching once a week , and were given lectures and ‘ homework ’ exercises . |
| 7 | All we know of him was that he had been involved in RAF mountain rescue in Anglesey , and had quite recently been on a posting in Lincolnshire . |
| 8 | The impression I got of him was that he was the world 's most cautious man ( which squares ill with his later reckless behaviour ) ; that he was a man who said nothing ; who had carefully devised a plan of life which rendered the use of words unnecessary except in an emergency such as fire or accident . |
| 9 | The only human thing that anybody whispered of him was that his wife , the daughter of the Eighth Earl de la Warr , had had to be divorced for granting bedroom favours to another . |
| 10 | And though the whole cult was largely founded on a pout , a posture , a rear view of ponytail and hindquarters and some carefully arranged shower curtains , sheets and wet clothing , the significance of it was that a young woman created a new lifestyle indisputably of the Fifties in which she took a man 's attitude to sex . |
| 11 | The two went into a long drinking session , and the end of it was that he bought the man 's seventeen-year-old daughter outright , with the last of his grant . |
| 12 | The beauty of it was that Campese could cause such a fearful commotion even when he was running on to nothing more appetising than set piece possession , either from the scrum or the line-out . |
| 13 | Yet the truth of it was that the estates were going to rack and ruin . |
| 14 | ‘ Apart from selling many more Reed titles , ’ he says , ‘ the key fact to come out of it was that more than half the customers who came into our shops to buy a promoted Reed title at a lower price bought on average two-and-a-half books at full price , and so the venture , as far as we were concerned , was highly profitable . ’ |
| 15 | She consulted Lessing , accordingly , about what to do with them ; and the end of it was that the long-forgotten link with the law was revived , and young Paul was placed like his father on an office stool . |
| 16 | Of course part of it was that McLaren were placing their bets on Prost . |
| 17 | ‘ One good thing to come out of it was that it inspired me to play guitar and turned me into the person I am . ’ |
| 18 | Everyone in this part of the world had obviously been fighting against either the Russians or the Yugoslavs , but the devil of it was that they were prepared to do anything rather than surrender to either of these armies . " |
| 19 | Erm er I think they 're probably and and they 're putting more effort into getting the unemployed off being unemployed off being unemployed into course are n't they so probably the they may have improved things but anyway the basic erm idea of it was that you borrow money er you borrow erm money to finance a course which is going to get you a job . |
| 20 | Anyway er it The outcome of it was that the Spencer Union was formed , George Spencer , er i in collaboration with er the mine owners , you see ? |
| 21 | But the highlight of it was that I used to get a ride on the dray and I used he he we used to finish up the round at the bottom of erm Road , and Street . |
| 22 | Erm a lot of it was that people just accepted their situation and did n't think there was any way they were going to get anything different . |
| 23 | The truth of it was that he was even less certain of her now than he 'd been at the beginning ; how she thought , the way she might react as the world around her changed . |
| 24 | The pity of it was that she had n't made a bigger part for herself in the night 's scenario ; she was getting polite nods and hellos from people that she already knew slightly , and curious glances from most of the others . |
| 25 | The worst of it was that Charlotte had intended to emphasize how she had come in search of information , not confrontation . |
| 26 | The worst of it was that his headaches made him so angry ; it was a symptom of the poison that was killing him by degrees . |
| 27 | But they both had shields against which the lances struck , and the beauty of it was that on her shield was the insignia of the sun , on his that of the moon ; so they were each protected by the principle they opposed . |
| 28 | My impression of it was that it is not as powerful or flexible as the one which Audio Visual demonstrated to myself and Dr Chamberlain recently . |
| 29 | The ingenuity of it was that it operated exactly like a Jacquard loom , which is a loom for weaving tapestries without human control no matter how intricate or varied the design . |
| 30 | And the worst part of it was that it had been so wonderful that it would be hard to avoid doing it again . |