Example sentences of "[pers pn] was that [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll now tol t no I know I told you that I was that I was feeling |
| 2 | I could not understand how it was that they were discussing so placidly Jean-Claude 's current compositional ideas for the ‘ Chansons de Mani ’ . |
| 3 | The snow continued to fall as the Quattro clawed its way eastward towards whatever it was that they were seeking , whatever terrible things were waiting at journey 's end . |
| 4 | So the conjunction of these two words effectively prevents the raising of the question as to what it was that they were saying . |
| 5 | But in the meantime she was unwilling — no — afraid to know what secret thing it was that they were carrying . |
| 6 | She said most of it was it was n't the actual looking at the hole it was that she was hurting him pushing it in . |
| 7 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 8 | An order was made under section 4(2) of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 postponing publication or report of certain details of the proceedings until after the conclusion of all 24 numbered indictments in a schedule , when it would be announced in open court by Judge McMullan that the order had expired ; the order stated that the purpose of making it was that it was adjudged to be necessary to avoid a substantive risk of prejudice to the administration of justice in other pending proceedings . |
| 9 | Immediately you should find this loud noise has interrupted your train of thought , often enough to make you forget what it was that you were thinking about . |
| 10 | Wh what I mean to say is I could n't in advance guess which field it was that you were going to want at any particular moment . |
| 11 | Anyway , it was part of your task to appear interested in a woman who , if not boring , was lonely and — ’ she gave a high-pitched mirthless laugh — ‘ shall we say , slightly unbalanced — so as to find out … well , whatever it was that you were enquiring into . |
| 12 | It was that he was beginning to understand why Aziz the janitor and his friends might be convinced he was no ordinary child . |
| 13 | The original crucifix had been much smaller , too small in fact to contain whatever it was that he was cradling in his hand . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was that he was talking about now . |
| 15 | The worst thing that happened to me was that I was moved to another hut on the Waaf site and found myself amongst a very superior set of girls who worked in Radar . |
| 16 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 17 | One was that all people knew about me was that I was making trouble about the caravan site and a lot of them assumed that because it was at the bottom of my own garden , I must naturally be on ‘ their side ’ , whatever my political colour : that is , I wanted the site disbanded . |
| 18 | But what really surprised me was that he was holding out both hands to me . |
| 19 | ‘ All he told me was that he was working for the Sovbloc desk at Six , and they were looking for a deserter , but he did n't even have Blagg 's name . |