Example sentences of "[pron] that [pron] [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , the only way out of his troubles would be to confess to someone that he was passing himself off as a Muslim for the purposes of financial gain . |
| 2 | Someone that he was trying to forget . |
| 3 | It is as though we had to talk in order to reassure ourselves that we were living . |
| 4 | There was nothing that they were going to forget . |
| 5 | ‘ It is n't for nothing that he was called the most dangerous man in the galaxy . ’ |
| 6 | It was not for nothing that he was chosen as Mr Squeaky Clean after the sexual and financial aberrations of his two predecessors . |
| 7 | One student told me that they were watching and waiting . |
| 8 | When one morning she told me that they were going away , I ca n't say that it was a surprise . |
| 9 | Having told me that everyone was advising him to record it , I told him to go ahead and do it , but not with me . |
| 10 | ‘ It gradually dawned on me that we were becoming a sort of ‘ Punk cabaret ’ act . |
| 11 | A home-made notice informed me that it was kept by M. McDougall , who also did bed and breakfasts . |
| 12 | ‘ It has no name , ’ Sapan said , ‘ but when I told some other people I brought here that it had no name , they said to me that it was called Narnia . ’ |
| 13 | It seemed to me that it was wanting in every detail , but the objective facts are that I was five feet two and a half , weighed eight stone five , and had my fair share of acne . |
| 14 | Did n't you tell me that it was stolen ? |
| 15 | It seemed to me that I was watching a play . |
| 16 | James and I continued to go out and have lovely times together , but after a couple of years it slowly began to dawn on me that I was expanding . |
| 17 | A harassed young intern assisted by a cool , pretty nurse ( called Ruth , from Stanmore ) told me that I was bucking the statistical trend by having three fingers smashed between the knuckle and the phalangeal joint . |
| 18 | If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar . |
| 19 | It suddenly became clear to me that I was assumed to be equally as wilfully ignorant . |
| 20 | Well a as soon as she gave me this erm protective thing to wear and and then told me that I was grown up and every . |
| 21 | We drank tea , and very often I would arrive some five to ten minutes earlier than the appointed time , so the maid would tell me that I was to wait as madame was still resting . |
| 22 | ‘ Then one day it dawned on me that I was running scared and it was silly . |
| 23 | When I did eventually tell her she was really embarrassed , and tried telling me that I was making it up ! |
| 24 | She was screaming at me that I was going to prison , ’ said Falati . |
| 25 | Six months later my grandmother told me that I was going to join my parents and that she , too , was emigrating . |
| 26 | At Gateshead Frank informed me that I was going to run in the B relay team at the meeting , and I refused . |
| 27 | played rather a dirty trick on me because he did n't tell me that I was expected to make a speech . |
| 28 | As I was giving this description it came to me that I was talking about someone else . |
| 29 | I mean , th the other aspect of the , of the fif the other aspect of the , the brewery and me that I was talking about , er I 'm thinking about is that we we could do with you know , okay those , th those figures are I mean , unless they 're really realistic it 's gon na be you know , six months or so |
| 30 | I said that I understood she came from the Continent , and she told me that she was born in Denmark . |