Example sentences of "[verb] that this was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did her husband know that this was his 13,870th breakfast with Mrs Surb ? |
| 2 | Easily Accessible : If you are not keen on Shakespeare , Stratford may not be the place for you — nearly everywhere you go you will be reminded that this was his birthplace . |
| 3 | He had completely forgotten that this was his twenty-first birthday and that he had finally come of age . |
| 4 | As we walked through a network of pipes and valves we realized that this was what Hinkley C would look like before its radioactive inventory took over and no human beings could enter where we were standing . |
| 5 | There were some astonishing shouting matches over trifles , but we soon realized that this was his way of life . |
| 6 | Although she had consistently turned away from singing opportunities — ‘ The more people nagged , the more I was determined to stay away ’ — she realised that this was something that , say , Lulu would never even consider . |
| 7 | Rincewind looked around desperately , and realised that this was something he was really going to have to go through with . |
| 8 | Deputy Head brought child into school and was dealing with the incident in his office when the child 's Class Teacher burst in in a frenzied manner shouting that this was what she did n't want to happen and the child was getting too much attention . |
| 9 | So I immediately assumed that this was what was happening to my own kids . |
| 10 | If only two hundred were to be seen , then the chances were that Balliol would assume that this was their full strength . |
| 11 | It is easy to represent Althusser 's intervention purely in terms of structuralism , but to suggest that this was its only significant intellectual context is misleading . |
| 12 | As PostScript is something of a second fiddle to Hewlett-Packard 's PCL in the PC world you might have thought that this was nothing to do with you . |
| 13 | After Terry had gone upstairs we heard the dreadful shriek of tape being torn and so , when Mahmoud came down and asked which was Terry 's pee-bottle , we really could n't believe that this was anything more than another move . |
| 14 | Observations of the composition of the groups over three seasons confirmed that this was what happened . |
| 15 | The personnel director of SBCI Savory Milln , Peter Cole , confirmed that this was his view of headhunters ; he would employ a search firm only when he had exhausted his own supply of personal contacts . |
| 16 | Basically , I figured that this was my ticket to at least branching out a little bit . |
| 17 | Remember that this was something completely new for the LTV network . |
| 18 | She did not appreciate that this was his normal greeting , and assumed that her reputation had preceded her . |
| 19 | ‘ I know there may be days when I feel too tired , but you see , I decided … we both decided that this was what we wanted to do . |
| 20 | Both campaigns struggled , I believe that this was what made them different from the rest of the fleet . |
| 21 | Today when society , and consequently education , is increasingly dominated by national , academic and statistical considerations and visual imagination is neglected , I believe that this was his great contribution , the survival of which is of the greatest importance . |
| 22 | The Times recorded that this was their sixth partnership of over 150 ; the Telegraph that it was their seventh century stand ; while the Guardian made it the eighth . |
| 23 | It seems that this was their means of asserting their continuing independence of Moscow . |
| 24 | Josie looked into her eyes , and saw that this was something very close to the truth . |
| 25 | I felt that this was what Leslie would have wanted me to do , for he always cared greatly about the welfare of his men . |
| 26 | You know , a very good example of this , that always sticks in my mind , telling me erm , that once she was analyzing a woman and er , a lot of the analysis was concerned with erm , conflicts , erm , relating to masturbation in childhood , and constantly felt that this was what the analysis seemed to have done , because the woman consistently denied this had ever happened . |
| 27 | She twisted over on to her side , and glared fiercely at him , knowing that this was what she should n't do , that she was humiliating herself , that her face was red and puffy and ugly . |
| 28 | I understood that this was my mother 's wedding , and although I was necessary to it I was expected to do nothing but be there and appear contented . |
| 29 | Next morning , Saturday , Johnson walked early into Boswell 's bedroom ‘ to forbid me to mention that this was his birthday ’ . |
| 30 | And those who worked with him on ecumenical committees knew that this was nothing like so rigid an Anglo-Catholic as sometimes he was portrayed ; and remembered what he did for the Methodists and other non-Anglicans in Durham . |