Example sentences of "that [pers pn] was [verb] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But such was the disappointment on his face that I was compelled to agree that we would enjoy such a picnic , which indeed is a delicious meal in other circumstances — at Henley during summer , or at Glyndebourne on a good afternoon — but in the middle of the South African veld , on our way to Rhodesia , its incongruity would have occurred to anyone except to a British diplomat . |
| 2 | Sir , i it was a terrible brief point about clad in jodhpurs , riding boots and hacking jacket but all the point that I was going to make that I 've heard about riding roughshod over Europe but Mr Deputy Speaker this is ridiculous , I the er the honourable |
| 3 | Scarlet had understood that she was meant to understand that Brian was a hopeless father and a worthless human being , and she had not told him of the call . |
| 4 | Now that she was forced to accept that she had n't , Celia began to panic . |
| 5 | He kept stroking his own hand , then bursting into tears at his inability to communicate ; was it , as Margaret supposed afterwards , that he was trying to say that he had a second bank-book which they needed to find ? |
| 6 | I suspected that he was hoping to hear that the senator had been arranging for an illicit love affair on board Wavebreaker . |
| 7 | James Prior said unemployment levels were intolerable and Norman Tebbit said that he was going to prove that the problem was soluble . |
| 8 | About a month later , he said to me that he was compelled to agree that the first dinner had not been a success ( his words ) , and would I be kind enough to arrange a second ? |