Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] that i [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Just as darkness fell a man and a woman came and announced that I was sitting in their seats .
2 A week later I was called back to Downing Street by Margaret Thatcher and told that I was taking over the Department of Health and Social Security and also the question-and-answer session .
3 We investigates and discovered that I was carrying more than half a litre of cyst .
4 ‘ I began to lose consciousness and felt that I was standing on the world 's edge aside of a high , dark space looking across it , thinking that I was about to enter into it .
5 The Monday evening they phone me up and said that I was to attend another meeting on Tuesday which I believe were the twenty second to which they said , We 've thought about it and we 've decided not to continue your employment .
6 Lord Lloyd interviewed me , and explained that I was to report to the Military Attaché at the Baghdad Embassy , though I was to be attached to the British Institute .
7 I tried to turn in behind him but found that I was going to overshoot and pulled away to starboard .
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