Example sentences of "that [pron] was [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard , looking round his solid , brassbound table , got the impression that everyone was on their best behaviour . |
| 2 | The feeling of comradeship now in Liverpool , the feeling that everyone was in it together and helping each other , was something that her mother would never understand , she felt , nor her grief for the baby . |
| 3 | I begged not to go to school the next day , but Mama said that I was over my cold and that I would be safer at school in case her trick should fail . |
| 4 | ‘ So why do you care that I was with her that night ? ’ |
| 5 | I sent my rent book off as proof of the fact that I was of what the rent was |
| 6 | My one solace is that I was at your side . |
| 7 | I got down on my knees behind the animal with the feeling that I was on my own . |
| 8 | The only reason I came in here was that I was on my way into town when your boys called and they said it would be quicker if I came in to see you . |
| 9 | Cos although it was an amicable split , I still needed time to settle down and get used to the fact that I was on my own again . |
| 10 | I think he may have planted the idea that I was after her , for badness ’ sake . |
| 11 | I remember many occasions when friends would reassure me that I was like them , there were n't any differences . |
| 12 | But she also concurred in the view that I was like my father . |
| 13 | In a rather embarrassed way he told Seddon that I was in his office , and asked for instructions . |
| 14 | But I did use and re-invent the world of the Barracks I grew up in , yet the point is that I was in my 20s when I wrote that book and it was viewed through the persona of a dying woman . |
| 15 | And that busy little brain of yours presumably also believes that I was in my dressing-gown because he stayed the night . |
| 16 | I could hear the rain tapping on my window and I felt very glad that I was in my dry , warm bed . |
| 17 | ‘ Before you continue , Sir John , ’ Fitzormonde spoke up , ‘ and you start speculating on where I was , all I can say is that I was in my own chamber but no one saw me there . ’ |
| 18 | In any case , ’ he added , turning to look at her intently , ‘ the fact that I was in your room at this hour will be all over the hotel by morning . ’ |
| 19 | The young woman shook her head and steeped the cloth on Sycorax 's brow again , and bent closer , keeping her mind focused on her song , for she knew that someone was at her back , at the opening of her cabin , beyond the screen of rushes that stood there , and he was waiting for her . |
| 20 | He jerked his foot off the accelerator and glanced in the mirror , heaving a sigh of relief that nobody was on his tail . |
| 21 | Cos we did n't want the four , th the ladies that she was with they knew what was happening but nobody else knew |
| 22 | The farm workers took their seats , and she sat at the top of the table , so that she was with them , but a little apart . |
| 23 | Eileen came on leave on 28 August and it was fortunate that she was with her mother . |
| 24 | The air crews used to flock around the office even more now that she was with us , and in particular a navigator called Henry who made numerous attempts to date her . |
| 25 | It was all quite innocent , he was genuinely worried that she was on her own . |
| 26 | Prince Charles never offered to help and when , in desperation , she contacted the press office at Buckingham Palace , they told her that she was on her own . |
| 27 | Her flight would have convinced him that she was on her way to betray him and who knew what it would enter his confused mind to do to her ? |
| 28 | Since the night he kissed her he had woken her for her watch by hammering on the deckhead until she shouted that she was on her way . |
| 29 | He knew — he knew — that she was at his mercy , that she would not , could not , resist . |
| 30 | He was showing her that she was under his thumb . |