Example sentences of "[pron] were [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bishop of London , Tait , agreed , adding that ‘ Any pity called up for the unfortunate Charles I was likely to be dissipated by statements in the services which were so exaggerated that it was likely when read to turn the staunchest Royalist into a parliamentarian . ’ |
| 2 | Is the Attorney-General aware that , while the West Bromwich building society and financial advisers have grown fat and rich by selling home income equity bonds , 14,000 pensioners face the prospect of losing their homes , including some of my constituents who were not advised that the bonds were dangerous ? |
| 3 | I 'm sure that when you adopted your working together slogan you were not thinking that it included employers . |
| 4 | ‘ You were probably told that she died of a heart attack — but she did n't . |
| 5 | Erm that 's another thing that would may have persuaded me not to talk you into er self employed except you were already experiencing that I guess were you in timeshare ? |
| 6 | And you were then told that he was the great propagandist of those who went around a dozen years or so later breaking down these storeyed windows , richly dykes , because it was of course profane and idolatrous to have that dim religious light in your churches . |
| 7 | You were quite adamanat that you would do it — ’ |
| 8 | But I thought you were so experienced that it would n't have affected you as it did me . ’ |
| 9 | And then just as you were about to eat that another six people turned up so there were twelve altogether and you 'd have to shar share that |
| 10 | We were also told that the fire was started in June , and was not expected to be extinguished until the start of the rains , normally in October . |
| 11 | Finally an announcement was made that there was trouble with the rear power car ; we were later told that the train would be terminated at Wolverhampton and a bus laid on to take us to Shrewsbury . |
| 12 | We were not persuaded that this was a sufficient ground for distinguishing the two cases . |
| 13 | We were soon to discover that Masha might be in no condition to set us on any track . |
| 14 | We were soon to discover that he specialises , not only in deft , on-the-spot sketches , but also in brief pungent descriptions with much use of cunning metaphor . |
| 15 | We were then told that only a handful of high-spending authorities would be capped . |
| 16 | If in addition promises were made , as it seems they were , of helping to boost wage rates , and if particular grievances were also thrown into the package , it is not necessarily paradoxical that women should have agreed both to the five-year ban on entry ( they were not to know that it would really be a permanent one ) and to the assigning of all new machines to men . |
| 17 | Everyone presenting data at the conference was careful to point out that they were not saying that lead is safe , even at low levels , but the ‘ do n't knows ’ do not form a powerful lobby . |
| 18 | Cheshire police stressed that they were not saying that the men pictured were the bombers . |
| 19 | They were not told that the client on that occasion had cancelled the deal . |
| 20 | Around the same time the first desktop publishing programs , although they were n't called that , were beginning to emerge on Unix-based engines like the Sun and Apollo . |
| 21 | It was a fool 's paradise , but they were n't to know that , and it was hardly surprising that few worried much about the maintenance of British-financed production . |
| 22 | When customers complained , they were blithely informed that while Ma Rainey sang , an electric light had been switched on in the studio . |
| 23 | While the Danzig Poles were not keen for the city to come under Polish rule , they were nevertheless determined that they should not be penalised for being Polish , and in their own way they were proud of their identity — even if it did not quite amount to ‘ nationality ’ in a conventional sense . |
| 24 | Rose 's family was told that the operation was a matter of life-and-death , so they gave the surgeons permission , even though they were also warned that the operation could result in further bleeding and disability . |
| 25 | They were also hinting that there 's more moves to follow . |
| 26 | Moreover , after the attack on the embassy , they were also persuaded that their own lives would be seriously threatened if the Shah arrived in America . |
| 27 | They were also told that at 10 o'clock next morning she would be put on a plane back to India . |
| 28 | It was where the bedrooms had been ; they were later to discover that it was where the Romanovs had lived for a century and a half and had been the favourite apartments of Nicholas I. |
| 29 | They were then told that Fisher had already pleaded guilty to raping an Oxford University student in June on last year and that he had a string of other convictions , including 2 of indecent exposure . |
| 30 | Instead , they were now proposing that the poem should appear , ‘ with some pieces of William 's ’ , in a volume of its own . |