Example sentences of "that [pron] [noun sg] was [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She saw Tom 's brow clear and was absurdly gratified to find that her advice was of some use to him . |
| 2 | But he adapts , not without pain ; and even the most romantic heroine learns to accept , like the heroine of Anita Brookner 's Providence ( 1982 ) , that her lover was after all bound in the end to prefer another . |
| 3 | Before long , however , conscious that their secondment was at most 23 months , secondees began planning for departure , some within a year of appointment . |
| 4 | When they got back to New York , to the new apartment , she would make sure that their home was like that . |
| 5 | Men did not give the impression that their sexuality was at all vulnerable . |
| 6 | He was convinced that his wife was with another man . |
| 7 | Careful study of the map showed him that his house was in neither parish ; it was within the boundary of a parish in which he and a lot of black-face sheep were the only inhabitants . |