Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [adv] [adj] [that] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and y you know if you sent for a doctor you were almost apologetic that the mother was torn . |
| 2 | You n you were never concerned that the whole lot might come in or something ? |
| 3 | We were keenly aware that the local and national authorities , to say nothing of the international archaeological community , would have been horrified by such a spectacle . |
| 4 | ‘ We were very disappointed that the Department turned down our group 's request to fund a national study . |
| 5 | We were more concerned that the tocsin had been sounded . ’ |
| 6 | So the vote in Banbury was really in some ways quite surprising , but for those of us locally we were quietly confident that the parents would see the commonsense and logic of the argument and would not vote to opt out . |
| 7 | The court stated : We were unanimously satisfied that the oral evidence , together with the documentation , established clearly that from the date on which ( the settlor ) purported to constitute the settlement he exercised dominion and control over the trustee in the management and administration of the settlement , including distributions of capital to himself or to others as gifts or loans , and the making and disposition of investments . |
| 8 | Despite this we were quite pleased that the exercise had showed the system worked . |
| 9 | We were quite aware that the er quarry men well then there were fifty three out on strike er fifty men and three women , very much wanted to er t well play it their way in a sense . |
| 10 | They were simply concerned that the existing theories did n't fit together . |
| 11 | They were accordingly satisfied that the trial judge misdirected the jury when he stated that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what they could find proved that he himself did . |
| 12 | They were well aware that the natural secular order of things was rule by the monarch . |
| 13 | Although the right had advocated foreign withdrawal they were well aware that the retention of some American troops was needed to prevent communist domination — ‘ Under Shtikov 's proposal , [ a ] strong Korean Communist Army in [ the ] North of Korea would be free to sweep down on the virtually unarmed south and quickly over-run it . ’ |
| 14 | They were just pleased that the movies had become a normal everyday activity . |
| 15 | They were also dismayed that the popular Labour Party of the sixties had been hijacked by the greedy unions . |
| 16 | They were also worried that the USA would go ahead and plan a postwar aviation policy before they could even begin one . |
| 17 | The Montgomerie family finances continued on their downwards spiral until , in 1925 , they were so low that the contents of Eglinton Castle had to be auctioned off , including the suit of armour bought by the 13th Earl for the Tournament . |
| 18 | I preferred them when they were fresh because they had a bit of a tang later on , but they were so good that the thought of them makes me hungry . |
| 19 | By 3 p.m. , the explosions were so loud that they were audible 240 kilometres away ; by 5 p.m. they were so stupendous that the sound was carrying all over Java . |