Example sentences of "that [pron] [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And when the city fell and she decided that my fate was no longer one she chose to share , she returned to Buto . |
| 2 | I awoke at 4.30 am with a pounding heart and the certain knowledge that my hair was orange . |
| 3 | I found before that my heart was too partial in his favour and now with so much openness , affection and honour too , I am quite overcome . |
| 4 | Now I was in a position to move on ; but something had taken root deeper than the superficialities of travelling — a feeling that my story was not here , that something was drawing me back to Peru . |
| 5 | I think I was just miserable , and it was far easier to believe the reason was something I could do something about , rather than face the fact that my depression was very complicated , based on things like my family not having much money , and feeling very isolated and different from the kids at school . |
| 6 | He promised that my secret was safe . |
| 7 | The most worrying thing is not that life was imitating video game imitating life etc ; that my perception of reality had been fatally flawed by subliminal computer messages ; or even that my brain was becoming all-too transparent to any two-bob amateur psychiatrist who cared to take note . |
| 8 | Remembering my hunch that my drink was spiked leaves me confused . |
| 9 | Still thinking that my drink was spiked in Kansas does n't make me very trusting . |
| 10 | It took me a few months to realise that my life was changed completely . |
| 11 | Underneath I felt that my life was a weird cocktail of huge , secret binges and hidden stashes of food , and late-night trips to the off-licence to buy vast amounts of chocolate and crisps . |
| 12 | While the war continued I could ( almost ) fool myself into believing that I was like those other women who were merely separated from their men ‘ for the duration ’ — or , if not that , at least I felt that my life was suspended . |
| 13 | I could have written back to explain that my life was a daily humiliation and an unrelieved imprisonment , but I felt sure that they would neither care nor understand and , again , pride deterred me . |
| 14 | All I knew was that my life was intolerable and that the only way not to be destroyed by it , or by ‘ them ’ as I called the adult , authoritative world , was to reject them and everything they stood for . |
| 15 | All this happened in total silence with Kenny sitting on the other side of me , totally unaware that my life was changing . |
| 16 | If someone had told me a month before that my life was going to be changed so dramatically , I would not have believed them . |
| 17 | On 11 July Sukarno told the Committee : ‘ At no time … have I declared that my struggle was confined to the claim to the former Dutch held territory . |
| 18 | I leaned that my soil was too heavy to grow decent carrots or beetroot and that parsnips always forked because , although the soil was deep and good , the amount of stones could be only marginally reduced at each forking over . |
| 19 | At one point a uniform sergeant listening to me discuss some tactic , gloomily pointed out that my style was not theirs ; but then , he rationalized , ‘ how could it be , you 're from the north side of the river ’ . |
| 20 | He told me that my style was soft , slack and banal . |
| 21 | And so he decided he could get about three caravans on the the price that my bungalow was occupying . |
| 22 | Did I mention , by the way , that my money was on the Croat to win the Men 's Singles ? |
| 23 | It took me quite a few years to realize that my timing was terrible — the repercussions of being born then were enormous . |
| 24 | I immediately realised that my jaw was broken . |
| 25 | From the crowds midst , I glanced to one side and saw with satisfaction that my sign was still there , hovering like script in the air over my leased patch . |
| 26 | I was given a brisk homily by the sister in charge about how ill Toby was , and that my allowance was no more than ten minutes . |
| 27 | You do n't seriously think I 'd drive around knowing that my insurance was out of date ? |
| 28 | ‘ If he were tired , ’ said Miss Fielding , ‘ he would put me in the driving seat — except that my part was n't written for that to happen . |
| 29 | ‘ And as I put one leg out of the door , he looked slightly taken aback , because he could see that my leg was bare . |
| 30 | I was never conscious that my attire was odd until I had my first normal boy 's gear . |