Example sentences of "[verb] that [pron] [was/were] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I wo n't be late , " he said and it took her a moment to remember that they were speaking of Miss Dallam 's wedding-breakfast . |
| 2 | She saw the flicker of pain cross his face as she spoke of Lizzy and guessed that he was thinking of his own daughter . |
| 3 | But to stay , to lie in his arms and each time know that he was dreaming of another woman , would not just break her heart but shatter it . |
| 4 | In addition , Lord Meston submits that the court also had ‘ rights of custody ’ in the context of the Convention , because it had made orders in the course of the cross-motions before it which indicated that it was seized of the matter and that it had not determined either the father 's or the mother 's substantive applications and had adjourned the hearing of the mother 's substantive application for custody and for leave to remove the child from the jurisdiction until a date in August . |
| 5 | Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins . |
| 6 | Although he does not say so explicitly , this could mean that they were thought of as Trojans . |
| 7 | Once or twice lately he 's mentioned the possibility that he might ‘ change his way of life ’ which could mean that he intended to get married , but with Francis it could equally mean that he was thinking of taking up golf or ludo . ’ |
| 8 | Two wheels , round and round , he could n't take his eyes away , and this time it 'd be like worship , I dreamed that we were made of gold , he 'd seen too much , his eyes were gold , they 'd have to melt them down . |
| 9 | His blue eyes were gazing far away and his wife knew that he was thinking of that distant evening when he and Mrs Curdle had first met , on just such an April evening , many years ago . |
| 10 | He knew that he was accused of indecisiveness and vacillation ( that is what Hamlet means to Italians ) and seems to have felt he may have broken his lance on windmills ( that is what Don Quixote means ) . |
| 11 | She thought that everything was composed of heat and corruption and water — that we live off death and water — and she resented her own blinding mortality . |
| 12 | I thought that you were thinking of making a trip to Bristol ? |
| 13 | I thought that it was made of stone , but to my horror I discovered it was made of cement blocks ! |
| 14 | But Coopers ' employees said that they were informed of the decision to merge with Deloitte yesterday morning . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman then said that he was thinking of municipalising water . |
| 16 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 17 | It enables me to say that I was accused of racism by Labour Members although I had not mentioned the race of the individuals in the two cases to which I referred . |
| 18 | Lamm argues that they were made of organic material , wood or bone , differences being introduced by the creation of a number of similar , but not identical , examples ( Lamm 1973 ; 1980 ; Lamm and Lundström 1976 ) . |
| 19 | Subalterns posted to the Indian Army were expected to kill a tiger in order to prove that they were made of the right stuff . |
| 20 | Although the last sentence in that passage could be read as covering any demand for payment in purported reliance upon a statute Martin B. does relate it to a ‘ service rendered ’ and the following interjection by him during argument , at p. 629 , suggests that he was thinking of a demand colore officii in the sense referred to by Isaacs and Windeyer JJ. : |
| 21 | Sources in Banjul suggested that he was accused of mishandling the allocation of land for tourism development ; he had been a controversial figure since the end of 1988 when he was alleged to have sold donated drugs to the government . |