Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] that this was [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Did her husband know that this was his 13,870th breakfast with Mrs Surb ?
2 For a moment , Robert thought that this was what Sheikh was going to do .
3 Endill learned that this was what had happened to his grandfather , Cornelius Swift .
4 And those who worked with him on ecumenical committees knew that this was nothing like so rigid an Anglo-Catholic as sometimes he was portrayed ; and remembered what he did for the Methodists and other non-Anglicans in Durham .
5 The Times recorded that this was their sixth partnership of over 150 ; the Telegraph that it was their seventh century stand ; while the Guardian made it the eighth .
6 Deputy Head brought child into school and was dealing with the incident in his office when the child 's Class Teacher burst in in a frenzied manner shouting that this was what she did n't want to happen and the child was getting too much attention .
7 ‘ I came here at the beginning of the week thinking that this was my last tournament for the year , maybe forever , ’ Evert said .
8 Observations of the composition of the groups over three seasons confirmed that this was what happened .
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