Example sentences of "[adv] that [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a corner of the Salon Imperial of the Hotel Intercontinental , Paris , Harriet Varna braced her back against a statuesque pillar and looked steadily into the viewfinder of her camera , concentrating on her subjects so fiercely that she was almost oblivious to the electric atmosphere that surrounded her , bouncing off the Viennese décor and the sumptuous rococo ceiling along with the heat and the light as the models of the House of Saint Laurent moved gracefully along the hundred yards of catwalk to display the new season 's couture collection . |
| 2 | His wavy black hair curled behind his ears so thickly that she was reminded of an Ingres portrait of a nobleman she had seen in one of Miss Hatherby 's books . |
| 3 | It was clearly intended as a question about her personal life , and , after a short hesitation , she decided that he had the right to an answer , if she really was going to take the job — and she now suspected gloomily that she was . |
| 4 | It is not that prospects for earnings are 10 p.c. better that they were in the middle of last week , but it is possible to argue that prospects are that much better than they would have been under a Labour government and that the market was discounting such a result . |
| 5 | ‘ Then when I saw you I realised suddenly that you were just the friend who would help to make it all a success . |
| 6 | Maybe they both happened at once but from that moment everything was dreamlike and wonderful , I lost count of time as I sat there while the breathing became deep and regular and the animal began to he aware of his surroundings ; and by the time he started to look around him and twitch his tail tentatively I realized suddenly that I was stiff-jointed and almost frozen to the spot . |
| 7 | The ringing of a bell from downstairs announced that it was time for supper and Emily realized quite suddenly that she was hungry . |
| 8 | She realised suddenly that she was in the wrong lane , and pulled over sharply on the slippery road . |
| 9 | She wished suddenly that she were someone totally different , that she were much smaller and had a small face and tiny feet like Nan had . |
| 10 | She loved him so much that it was painful to just stand there watching him , and her eyes filled with easy tears . |
| 11 | Forty years ago , one of De Gaulle 's greatest admirers , the writer , Franois Mauriac , summed up typical French distrust after nearly a century of conflict by saying that he loved Germany so much that he was glad there were two of them . |
| 12 | Advent signals values : that God loved us so much that he was willing to enter upon an adventure that cost him the death of his Son . |
| 13 | She loved Roman so much that she was jealous of the air he breathed . |
| 14 | Audiences in South Wales liked her so much that she was invited to return there to sing time after time . |
| 15 | Robyn placed her hand over his , lifting it away , realising swiftly that he was more than a little drunk . |
| 16 | Yet , when the oriental came at him , the man moved so swiftly that he was once again almost taken by surprise . |
| 17 | I replied gently that we were there to describe building plans and had no involvement in North Sea Gas . |
| 18 | Bridget 's hand in the small of her back reminded her gently that she was obstructing the entrance . |
| 19 | And then , so gently that she was hardly aware of what was happening — as if she was merely swaying with the tide — he gradually pulled her towards the shore , slowly drawing her up against the bare , damp skin of his broad chest . |
| 20 | ‘ You have to break it gently that he was fictitious , but I do n't think it always sinks in . |
| 21 | I wish I could make you happy , ’ he said , so sweetly and gently that I was ashamed of the laughter building up inside me , and of the thought , why he 's old enough to be my father . |
| 22 | And then she would tell Peter firmly but gently that it was all off . |
| 23 | The railways railwaymen were demanding more , because they felt quite rightly that they were giving more to the railways . |
| 24 | ‘ Kelly would tell her friends quite naturally that she was dying , she did n't fear it , ’ says Mike . |
| 25 | It was bad enough that they were deceiving these innocent , kindly folk — did he have to do it so well ? |
| 26 | For two people who both were always in control , this was something of a miracle — to let go of control completely — to trust enough that they were both hurled into the abyss of pure sensation , pure feeling . |
| 27 | I 've let you play your games , you and Joseph , and I 've said it was nothing to me , it was enough that I was a painter . |
| 28 | No matter what undercurrents had passed between them last night , it had been true enough that it was la Principessa who 'd sent her grandson to collect her at the Sala dell'Arte . |
| 29 | ’ John made it clear enough that he was thinking of the Roman curia : ‘ In our everyday ministry we often have to listen , greatly to our sorrow , to those … who do not have much discretion or balance ’ . |
| 30 | At the beginning she had known clearly enough that he was an irrevocably solitary man , and it had seemed to her fortunate to live with him at all . |