Example sentences of "that i [was/were] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would think that whoever took those things is very worried indeed now to find that I was with Harry and that he is alive . |
| 2 | ‘ I knew there were only seconds to go and could feel my strength failing with each moment , and a drifting kind of sleep coming on me which whispered , ‘ Give up , Minch , give up … ’ and it was only the knowledge that I was of Callanish , the greatest of the sites , that kept me fighting those few more seconds . |
| 3 | I could think that I was at school again , lying in the long grass waiting to bat , or walking over Berkshire downs or along a Devon valley . |
| 4 | ‘ I rather think ’ Mr Nightingale said ‘ that I was at school with your uncle C. A. Harbinger . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , I was always thankful that I was at Magdalen , perhaps the most beautiful of Oxford colleges . |
| 6 | During the time that I was at MainMan , David had become more and more removed from us , but I figured that that was because he was so busy and that was the way it was when you had become a big star . |
| 7 | Did I tell you that I was at Belsen just after it was liberated ? ’ |
| 8 | She 'd been trying to prove that I was on drugs since I was fourteen . |
| 9 | At this airport the pottery was the same , but it was placed so high up the wall that I was on tiptoe and firing upwards . |
| 10 | I believe her , I trust her and I was not bewitched by her green eyes , owing to the fact that I was on duty at the time . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Anders has achieved so many of his goals this year that I was on Jamie 's side . |
| 12 | I never gave in , but within weeks the networks were buzzing with the news that I was into censorship and as bad as Mary Whitehouse . |
| 13 | Perhaps it was despair that made me believe there was one person in the world who might know that I was in despair . |
| 14 | We had tea and discussed everything except the two things that interested me : the fact that I was in love with her daughter , and the fact that her husband had run off with a schoolgirl . |
| 15 | " It was n't that I was in love with him , you know , " she said , from time to time , as chorus to her main argument , " it was n't as though I was in love with him , you know . " |
| 16 | Mum guessed there was something and in the end I told her that I was in love with a married man . |
| 17 | Surely you always knew that I was in love with you ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We talked about it , ’ said Jenny , ‘ because I told him frankly that I was in love with Jamie , and he looked at me as if I needed my head examined ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I just did n't have any other way of stopping you guessing that I was in love with you . |
| 20 | ‘ And I did admit to myself that I was in love with you that night , ’ she said huskily . |
| 21 | ‘ In my defence , I 'd only recently admitted to myself that I was in love with you . |
| 22 | This was a very comforting thing , although I must admit that I heard of no cases occurring in the period that I was in Mespot . |
| 23 | It proved to me that I was in earnest , that I was truly resolved . |
| 24 | I had a bit of trouble on the Underground with all those automatic machines but one of the station staff spotted that I was in difficulty and came to my aid . |
| 25 | I dreamt that I was in Cardiff and in bed with the wife . |
| 26 | He should understand that I was in favour of a social charter in Europe before there was any such thing as the European Community . |
| 27 | Anorexia provided me with the illusion that I was in control , not only of my body and my own status within the community , but of that community itself and , finally , of the biological processes which others around me were powerless to influence . |
| 28 | It did n't occur to me that I was in labour because it was too early . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , I was sweating and burning up so much that I was in danger of melting away into a puddle . |
| 30 | I realised that I was in danger of being fooled by the maps . |