Example sentences of "[noun] that i [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For over twenty years I worked under the delusion that I was teaching maths . |
| 2 | I knew that if the handle moved faster it would sound better , so I really exerted every ounce of my miserable muscle power and the handle jerked forward with such force that I was lifted clean off the ground . |
| 3 | But other gang members warned my kids that I was to get slashed for grassing . |
| 4 | The mention that I was journeying via Marseilles prompted him to warn me , somewhat to my surprise , not to let the street-girls of the special quarter ( since abolished ) commandeer my hat — a favourite play of theirs to inveigle one inside — which suggested that he had experienced such an approach . |
| 5 | However , recognising John 's substantial experience of ICAO matters , the division appointed him as chairman of committee ‘ A ’ , with the result that I was left virtually as head of the UK delegation . |
| 6 | The reply that I was given is as follows : ’ The external finance limit for BR next year will be £2,041 million . |
| 7 | That 's why , cos she said I 'm just gon na know , I was gon na say to Richard that I was gon na ask Richard if if Emma , if he wants to go out with Emma ? |
| 8 | The drop down from Meall Corranaich and back up to Beinn Ghlas was a great deal more substantial than I would have wished at this point in the walk , keeping in mind that I was hallucinating from the effort of the chase and the subsequent lack of oxygen managing to get anywhere near my lungs via a mouth full of clenched teeth . |
| 9 | My motivations were not as clear-cut as those of any contemporary workforce , but there is no doubt in my mind that I was going on strike in the only way I knew how to , and that in this sense Szasz is right to describe anorexia nervosa as a political problem . |
| 10 | I 'd made up my mind that I was going to tell you last night . ’ |
| 11 | That one 's very atmospheric , very similar to Sebastian and the stuff with orchestras that I was doing in 1974 . |
| 12 | Again the densities that I was getting back from them varied considerably , from a hundred workers per hectare on some |
| 13 | But even this did n't dispel some of the confusions that I was feeling . |
| 14 | They never showed any sign of having doubts that I was going to give the total commitment required to be a full time board member . |
| 15 | For appearances ' sake I maintained the fiction that I was setting up an independent enterprise in the EFL field . |
| 16 | E actually yours made me think of a story that I was told many years ago on a coach trip over Dartmoor |
| 17 | I was informed by a normally respectable member of the Gwili Board that I was wanted on the telephone in the shop . |
| 18 | Yeah she told Christie that I were going with her . |
| 19 | I placed my pipes and rucksack on the back seat of the jeep and informed the driver that I was going into the orchard for a last look round . |
| 20 | But this other bit that I was telling you |
| 21 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 22 | I must tell Philippa that I was joking . |
| 23 | I told him at a funeral this afternoon that I was pulling him out of Saturday 's game . |
| 24 | When I told her this afternoon that I was gon na be away till maybe tomorrow morning I do n't know what I expected . |
| 25 | So erm the money that I was gon na you know , use for that I 'll use for the ticket . |
| 26 | The main problem was the constant stream of bright green saliva that I was expectorating every minute or two . |
| 27 | It was as a result of this withdrawal that I was invited to write the paper ( Currie , 1979 ) . |
| 28 | She said it 's a big , big cut off , if your phone rings you 're out , so of course the phone were ringing , then it went to one in post , no it never , it went first from Ann from Lynnette then to Ann and then it went to Kathy and then it went to erm somebody else and then it come to me but I 've got seven hundred thousand pounds worth of money on my desk that I were banking and Jane had got that job and Jane was on post in cash cos she ai n't got a job cos that thing with them shoes did n't take off and do you know |
| 29 | ‘ I simply could n't imagine telling either Jennifer or my parents that I was seeing you … in fact , I still ca n't . ’ |
| 30 | If God would provide accommodation for my family while I was away , preferably with friends , and convince my parents that I was doing the right thing , then I would know that the trip was on . |