Example sentences of "that [pron] was [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not exaggerating when I say that I was inspired by all I saw at the adult education centres in Croydon . |
| 2 | I responded as usual by smiling slightly — sufficient at least to indicate that I was participating in some way with the good-humouredness with which he was carrying on — and waited to see if my employer 's permission regarding the trip would be forthcoming . |
| 3 | If this view is correct , I can only conclude that I was saddled with both sets of anxieties and , in addition , that there are more and more adolescent girls today who are finding themselves in the same position . |
| 4 | It was then that I was struck by another passage in Mothers and Daughters : ‘ As the middle- aged daughter develops reasonable expectations of her ageing mother , she will be able to develop reasonable self-expectations in relation to her daughter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If I find in myself a desire for which no experience in this world can satisfy , the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world . |
| 7 | He knew somehow that I was dealing with this section and gave me the serial number of a wagon and told me not to go anywhere near it . |
| 8 | I was about to say , Harry , that I was accused by some friends last night of being sanctimonious . |
| 9 | The Environment Committee that I was talking about this proposal at this meeting . |
| 10 | Membership of the Institute requires appropriate practical experience as well as the written exam , so it was a double success story that she was accepted on both counts . |
| 11 | So convinced was she that ‘ Love conquers all , that she was prepared at all times to forgo conventional ties if they interfered with his development . |
| 12 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 13 | As Wilson mentions , she had recently had a harrowing shock , so it is possible that she was hallucinating in some way and that , by chance , her hallucinations corresponded approximately with historical reality . |
| 14 | As for her voice , it seemed to be down at her elbow somewhere , and it was only by a kind of automatic reflex that she was singing at all . |
| 15 | This would baffle her friends and her students who had the impression that she was engaged in some vast if imprecise enterprise . |
| 16 | He would make the arrogant assumption that she was complaining about all the times separation would deprive her of him . |
| 17 | If we printed details of the case it would make her identity too plain to the authorities but suffice it to say that she was detained with some others for celebrating a ‘ banned person ’ — Nelson Mandela . |
| 18 | Then it became apparent that she was holding to some other lodestar . |
| 19 | The last thing she wanted him to think was that she was prying into that which did not concern her . |
| 20 | She knows she could have pointed out how troops from India fought alongside the British in the war , or that she was born in that far-off , exotic setting , Middlesbrough General Hospital , and was indeed just on her way home but he was drunk as well as ill-informed , so it hardly seemed worth it . |
| 21 | Caroline realised that she was floundering in such a morass of conflicting emotions that she hardly knew what to resent most . |
| 22 | Not that she was acquainted with many . |
| 23 | Sara said that she was standing at that window when she noticed the light in the office . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's quite large for around here , ’ the woman told her , and , even though it was nowhere near as large as Leith 's present flat , nor in the area that she was used to either , she was in a ‘ beggars ca n't be choosers ’ situation . |
| 25 | This kind of emphasis on the opposition between , rather than the complementary nature of , the active and contemplative lives was reflected in the patristic interpretation of the story of Martha and Mary ( Luke 10:38 — 42 ) in which Christ excuses Mary 's lack of active help in Martha 's household chores because she was listening to him , on the grounds that she was concentrating on that which was most essential . |
| 26 | He was perceptive enough to know that she was suffering from some sort of emotional wound that had nothing to do with him . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're a good boy , Wayne , ’ Angelica had said , and they 'd both known that she was meaning for more than just the errand . |
| 28 | She said that she was waiting for some of her belongings to be sent on , but she 'd supply all her tax and National Insurance details as soon as they came . |
| 29 | The budget package was consistent with those of recent years in that it was based on some fairly optimistic projections concerning the future development of the economy . |
| 30 | In the spring of 1968 there was much rethinking within the CRA [ Civil Rights Association ] leadership ; the tactics of Martin Luther King in America had been absorbed inasmuch that it was felt by some that only public marches could draw wide attention to what we were trying to achieve by normal democratic means . |